Blogs
How healthy is dry-cleaning? We’ve all done it–accidentally machine washed and ruined a “dry-clean only” piece. It’s so frustrating–what happens in the washer and why is dry cleaning “safe” for these items? According to Rinse, a dry cleaning and laundering...
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Do Air Purifiers in Classrooms Reduce Illness? Ahh, this is certainly one time when I’m glad to be working remotely! As my co-workers send their children back to school, the illnesses (from the common cold to COVID-19) ramp up again...
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Measure it so you can improve it! There are several great old quotes that still hold true today: “You can’t improve what you don’t measure.” (often attributed to Peter Drucker, “father of management thinking”, Forbes.com) “When you can measure what...
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Protection from Over-Chlorination When I think about the pool where I learned to swim, I can almost smell the chlorine! It was a YMCA where one half of the building had a “giant” (to a 5-year old) pool with lanes...
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Getting the Basement Dried Out In our post on how the basement affects our whole home’s air quality, we discussed how mold and mildew form and are sustained in the basement. Active water leaks (flowing down the walls and pooled...
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