Real Estate Radio LIVE with Erika from EZ Breathe

Real Estate Radio LIVE was founded and launched in 2011 by Joe Cucchiara, a Bay Area mortgage planner who has guided thousands of Silicon Valley residents (and beyond!) through the home financing process. With Real Estate Radio LIVE ranked #2 in listenership and popularity on The Wall Street Business Network, AM 1220 KDOW, the mission has been widely received and continues to grow.

A home is a safe place, unless it’s making you sick! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that the air in the average American home is anywhere from five to 100 times more polluted than the air outside. EZ Breathe Ventilation Systems aims to change that! Erika Lacroix, President of EZ Breathe will chat with Host Joe Cucchiara about the hidden health dangers inside a home.

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Healthy Home Tips! – April is Healthy Home Awareness Month

“Healthy Homes Awareness Month”

Healthy Home Tips! - April is Healthy Home Awareness Month- EZ BreatheApril is Healthy Homes Awareness month! We, here at EZ Breathe, have long supported the Healthy Homes initiative. We are proud that two of our staff members hold the Healthy Homes Specialist certification. They have graciously put together these helpful tips. One for each day…

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April 1:

Here at EZ Breathe, we are keenly aware of the 7 Healthy Home Tips:

  1. Keep it Dry.
  2. Keep it Clean.
  3. Keep it Safe.
  4. Keep it Well-Ventilated.
  5. Keep it Pest-free.
  6. Contaminant-free.
  7. Keep it Well-Maintained.

US Department of Housing and Urban Development office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=DOC_11882.pdf

 

April 2:

Keep it Dry

Today is a great day to check for signs of foundation leaks.  As snow has melted, followed by spring rains in much of North America, now is a time to check for damp spots on walls and floors, actual water leakage, etc.  If you have any of these signs, call EZ Breathe for helpful hints on what you can do to Keep it Dry in your basement or crawlspace.

 

April 3:

Keep it Clean

Today, you can Keep it Clean and Dry at the same time, clean out eaves troughs of tree debris, etc.

 

April 4:

Keep it Safe

Do you have smoke detectors on each floor of the home? Did you replace the batteries when you adjusted your clocks ahead for Spring?  If not, do it now, and remember to test each smoke detector monthly.

 

April 5:

Keep it Well-Ventilated

We aren’t coming up with this on our own, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in their “Seven Tips for Keeping a Healthy Home” says:

“use whole house ventilation for supplying fresh air to reduce contaminants in the home.”

 

April 6:

Keep it Pest-Free

Did you know that a mouse can enter your home through a ¼ inch gap?  Now is a good time to examine the outside of your home for any penetrations.  There are some easy ways to seal these up DIY. Or call a professional who understands Integrated Pest Management.  There is a lot more than chemicals to keeping your home pest free.

 

April 7:

Keep it Contaminant-free

Have you had your home tested for radon?  See this map from the EPA, and test your home. Some Health Departments have test kits.

 

April 8:

Keep it Well-Maintained

Inspect the exterior of your home thoroughly for damage from the Winter.  Make a list of repairs. Take care of minor repairs, and prevent much more costly large repairs.

 

April 9:

Keep it Dry

Visually inspect your roof from the outside, look for missing or damaged shingles.  If you are in a snow/freeze region, ice damming can cause external damage that will create the path for water to enter the home.  One of our distributors in Massachusetts this Winter personally experienced both ice damming, and how EZ Breathe can help to prevent it.

 

April 10:

Keep it Clean

Like the old school rhyme, “Pick up Sticks” in the yard.  It is both a Keep it Clean, and a Keep it Safe (trip hazard).

 

April 11:

Keep it Safe

Do you have Carbon Monoxide detectors?  EZ Breathe HIGHLY recommends CO alarms, and Low Level CO alarms or monitors are the way to go!  According to the CDC:  “Infants, the elderly, people with chronic heart disease, anemia, or breathing problems are more likely to get sick from CO.”  And these folks are also more likely to be effected at lower levels than many alarms would even recognize as a threat. http://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/fire-and-safety-equipment/smoke-alarms/installing-and-maintaining-smoke-alarms

 

April 12:

Keep it Well-Ventilated

When it comes to attached garages, you can take care of a lot of “Keep Its” with one simple thing: Garage mechanical ventilation.   According to the Energy Star Indoor airPlus program, and the Alaska American Lung Association, attached garages should have exhaust ventilation. It will keep garage fumes, including carbon monoxide, benzene, and chemicals stored in the garage, from entering the home.

 

April 13:

Keep it Pest-free

Inspect the exterior of the home and ensure that the soil outside doesn’t directly contact any exterior wood elements of the home.  This is a pathway for pests including termites.  While you’re at it, look for landscaping bushes and trees in contact with the home, and trim accordingly.

 

April 14:

Keep it Contaminant-free

As we open our windows (I just opened mine for the first time in months), check for chipping paint, if your house was built before 1978, the paint used around the windows may very well contain lead.  Remove chips, and dispose of them safely.  For tips on handling possibly lead containing paint: https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/2502/

 

April 15:

Keep it Well-Maintained

Spring is a good time to institute a “remove your shoes at the door” rule.  It will make keeping the house clean easier, and will also keep unwanted contaminants like lead in the soil, pests, etc. from entering your home!

 

April 16:

Keep it Dry

Check the attic for any signs of water intrusion from outside OR condensation from inside.  Wet spots, rusty metal, mold, etc.

 

April 17:

Keep it Clean

One of the best ways to find an area in need of cleaning is to use your nose!  Who has the most sensitive nose in the house?  Follow your nose.  Many things we need to be aware of have a scent signature… what is that musty odor?  https://ezbreathe.com/why-is-my-basementcrawlspace-damp/

 

April 18:

Keep it Safe

If your home was a workplace (and who has a home that doesn’t involve a lot of work?),  cleaning products and other chemicals would have to be labeled and stored in a secure area.  And most workplaces don’t have pets and children in them.  Are your cleaning products safely stored in an area that children and pets can’t access?

 

April 19:

Keep it Well-Ventilated

Check your dryer vent hose or pipe, clean it out, check for holes, and make sure the exterior vent isn’t clogged.  In 2010 nearly 17,000 home fires were caused by clothes washers and dryers, 92% by dryers.

 

April 20:

Keep it Pest-free

Check all fresh air intakes for high efficiency furnaces, water heaters, makeup air,  or the EZ Breathe Balanced system… they should have a filter (ours does), and the filter should be cleaned or changed.  No filter means free access to pests….ask us about the hornet infested house from an unfiltered passive air intake…

 

April 21:

Keep it Contaminant-free

If there is one thing we should remember when it comes to contaminants it is this: SOURCE CONTROL.  If we don’t bring it in the house, we don’t have to deal with it.  So pay attention to the labels of anything you bring in the house!  See our blog on Formaldehyde.

 

Today we will be at a conference in Akron, Ohio: “Creating Healthier Indoor Spaces for Healthier Children”, 

 

 

April 22:

Keep it Well-Maintained

If you have an outdoor grill, now is a great time to open it up, clean it out, and prepare for grilling season.  Far too many people find out about bugs, mice, etc. that have made a home in their grill when it is too late!

 

April 23:

Keep it Dry

Make a note to yourself… next time it rains cats and dogs, do a perimeter check of your home, observe the way the rain water comes off the roof, and is it pooling around the foundation?  Rain water should be running to the eaves troughs, into the downspout, and piped away from the foundation.  Any failure to do so should be addressed.

 

April 24:

Keep it Clean

Clean and organize your garage! Sometimes a disorganized/messy garage hides all kinds of things we don’t want, like pests, old paint cans, etc. One customer told me that our garage system “Changed my life”, it was because of equal parts forcing him to clean and organize his garage, and how it immediately changed how his wife perceived the smell of the garage and adjoining room of the house.

 

April 25:

Keep it Safe

Inspect your home for trip/slip and fall hazards.  Loose rugs, extension cords across the floor (this is dangerous on many levels), toys, shoes, etc.  Personally, I hate it when I inspect a home that has pairs of shoes “organized” on each step on the way into the house, or into the basement, or upstairs, or all of the above.  Safety is about redundancy, sure it would be great if everyone was always aware of where they were walking, but they often aren’t, and removing a trip hazard prevents serious injury!

 

April 26:

Keep it Well-Ventilated

This is a good day to check bathroom and kitchen range exhaust fans.  They should be in good working order, and exhausting to the outside.  Check outside vents for airflow restrictions, make sure any ductwork is intact and not obstructed.  Also, flex pipe works best when it is STRAIGHT!  I can’t tell you how many times we see flex pipe hung in ways that guarantee debris accumulation, condensation pooling, and eventual blockage, if not worse.

 

April 27:

Keep it Pest-free

Pest of the day… DUST MITES.  Where ever your family and your pets spend the most time is where dust mites will be most likely to be found.  Thoroughly vacuum your furniture; move your furniture, and vacuum the carpet around it.  Dust mite-proof bedding is advised, particularly if anyone has asthma or allergies.

 

EZ Breathe representatives will be attending the 2015 Ohio Healthy Homes and Lead Conference in Cleveland!

 

April 28:

Keep it Contaminant-free

If there are smokers in the house, make sure to institute a “smoke free” home policy.  If there is smoking in one room, there is smoking throughout the home (your furnace/air conditioning is designed to move air from one room throughout the house), a smoke free home is important to everyone’s health.  And it might help the smoker to limit and eventually quit smoking.  Check your local chapter of the American Lung Association for Smoking Cessation classes.

 

April 29:

Keep it Well-Maintained

Check your window screens.  Repair/replace as needed.  It looks nice, and it will keep bugs out!

 

April 30:

Keep it Dry

You already checked and fixed any sources for rain water entering your home at your roof, or foundation….what about water vapor?  If you want to know about how water vapor enters your home, check out the EZ Breathe Blog! https://ezbreathe.com/why-is-my-basementcrawlspace-damp/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Popular Science Radio with EZ Breathe

Popular Science Radio with EZ Breathe Popular Science Radio with Alan Taylor and EZ Breathe with Erika Lacroix

The stuffy air in your house could be killing you! Find out how EZ Breathe can help you breathe easy with their home ventilation system.

 

Breathe Easy – Six out of every ten homes are hazardous to live in due to airborne pollutants. EZ Breathe President, Erika Lecroix, has made it her mission to improve the indoor air quality in homes all across America, and is here to tell us how!

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Ventilation is Key – The most important tool in your arsenal in your fight against hazardous indoor air is ventilation! Erika Lecroix explains how EZ Breathe’s stand alone unit provides an escape for all the nasty stuff in your building at the lowest level.

‘Fragrance’ Making Us Sick?

Fragrance Making Us Sick- EZ Breathe“Fragrance” can mean any of thousands of combinations of chemicals whose identities are not disclosed.

Miller is just one of countless Americans who are sensitive to “fragrance,” a cryptic category of ingredients manufacturers add to products from cleaning supplies to toiletries. This generic term encompasses thousands of combinations of chemicals that give consumer goods their odors, but the identity of those chemicals is rarely disclosed.

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For decades, fragrance makers have insisted on treating their recipes as trade secrets, even as complaints about negative health effects have proliferated. A 2009 study, for example, concluded that nearly one-third of Americans were irritated by the smell of scented products on others, and 19 percent experienced headaches or breathing difficulties when exposed to air fresheners or deodorizers.

The fragrance industry, with projected global sales of $40 billion this year, insists it ensures the safety of its products through a rigorous system of self-regulation administered by its trade group, the International Fragrance Association. But Women’s Voices for the Earth, a small consumer advocacy group in Missoula, Montana, recently outlined some troubling flaws in the industry’s methods and identified scores of chemicals used in its mixtures as toxic substances.

The Fragrance Association’s North American branch declined to comment for this story, as did association member BASF, the chemical giant. Four other members—Phoenix Aromas & Essential Oils, Premier Specialties, Flavor & Fragrance Specialties Inc., and Bedoukian Research—did not return phone calls.

“There’s a real kind of state of ignorance on the part of scientists, on the part of researchers, on the part of consumers.”

“There’s a real kind of state of ignorance on the part of scientists, on the part of researchers, on the part of consumers, on what is in fragrance and how safe fragrances are for your health,” says Alexandra Scranton, director of science and research at Women’s Voices, whose mission is to eliminate toxic chemicals that predominately affect women. “We were trying to pick apart the claim that the industry is ensuring the safety of fragrance.”

This problem isn’t new. In 2005, California passed the Safe Cosmetics Act, which compels manufacturers to report any product containing ingredients suspected to cause cancer, birth defects, or reproductive harm. But the reporting database doesn’t include ingredients, including fragrance chemicals, that the companies identify as trade secrets—and experts worry some manufacturers are failing to comply altogether.

At the federal level, the Food and Drug Administration, which oversees cosmetics, doesn’t require manufacturers to prove in advance that their ingredients are safe—the FDA must demonstrate harm before requesting a recall. And while the agency compels cosmetics makers to disclose their ingredients, it, too, has a trade-secret exemption for fragrance or flavor chemicals. Products such as laundry detergents and air fresheners fall under the purview of the Consumer Products Safety Commission, which does not actively screen fragrances for safety.

“Government has failed to provide a real regulator…There are plenty of examples of where counting on the good graces of industry has wound up being a mistake.”

“Government has failed to provide a real regulator,” which is a problem, says Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group (EWG). “There are plenty of examples of where counting on the good graces of industry has wound up being a mistake.”

In May 2010, a coalition called the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics revealed the results of independent tests it commissioned on 17 popular perfumes, colognes, and body sprays. EWG analyzed the results: Each product contained more than a dozen undisclosed chemicals, including “chemicals associated with hormone disruption and allergic reactions,” the group reported, and other “chemicals with troubling hazardous properties or with a propensity to accumulate in human tissues.”

Earlier that year, under pressure from Women’s Voices and others, the International Fragrance Association released a list of some 3,000 chemicals used by its members. Women’s Voices presented its analysis this past November: Well over 1,000 of the listed ingredients, the group reported, also appear on official listings of worrisome chemicals. The United Nations, for instance, has more than one-third of the fragrance chemicals flagged with the word “warning” and explicitly labels 190 of them a “danger.” The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a division of the World Health Organization, lists seven of the ingredients as possible human carcinogens. Fifteen of the chemicals, Women’s Voices noted, are banned from cosmetics in the European Union.

Scranton, the scientist who authored the Women’s Voices report, points out that the Fragrance Association’s list gives no indication of how often and in what quantity each chemical is used, which makes it difficult to vet. “When I see styrene [a possible carcinogen] on the list of chemicals in fragrance, that’s a red flag,” she says. “Is it only used very, very rarely, in very small amounts? Possibly. Is it used in every fragrance that you come across? Then it’s going to be a problem.”

In a brief paper posted on its website, the Fragrance Association touts the industry’s ability to ensure “the highest levels of safety,” and insists that the industry adapts to new scientific findings “more quickly and efficiently through self-regulation as opposed to diverse legislation in different countries on different continents.” The association works with its research arm, the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, to produce standards it says are science-based.

“The Research Institute for Fragrance Materials is like a black box…None of their safety studies are publicly available.”

Women’s Voices cites several problems with this setup: First, the vast majority of fragrance safety studies are produced by the Research Institute—the Fragrance Association says it spends about $8 million a year on joint studies with manufacturers—or by the fragrance houses themselves. But the industry research is rarely published or peer reviewed, and there is no routine review of laboratory practices, Women’s Voices says, to ensure that results “have not been manipulated.”

Over the past year, however, the European Commission Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety has examined studies by the Research Institute and found repeated failings in its methodology—including incomplete data and invalid protocols.

The industry vets safety data and creates safety standards with guidance from a panel of “independent experts“—but the panel’s deliberations are off limits to the public. These standards, according to the Fragrance Association’s website, amount to 186 substances it has banned or restricted over the years, but Women’s Voices contends that the group does little to police its standards.

“The Research Institute for Fragrance Materials is like a black box,” says Janet Nudelman, the director of program and policy for the Breast Cancer Fund and director of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. “None of their safety studies are publicly available.”

The Research Institute did not argue with the findings of Women’s Voices but simply responded with a statement affirming that “the industry is committed to addressing consumers’ interests through a continuous health and environmental safety review.”

The Fragrance Association opposed a recent bill that would force manufacturers of cleaning products to disclose their top 20 ingredients.

But the industry remains opposed to greater transparency regarding the chemicals it uses. The Fragrance Association, for example, opposed a California bill—introduced last February by state Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles)—that would force manufacturers of cleaning products to disclose their top 20 ingredients on the label. In a letter to the assemblyman, the association said it was worried about counterfeiters.

Miller, the New York professor with fragrance sensitivity, says “it would be very helpful” for people like her if companies would come clean about what’s in their products. “Fragrance is not just some pretty concept,” she says. “It actually can be a fairly nasty combination of chemicals.”

This story was reported by FairWarning, a nonprofit news organization focused on public health, safety and environmental issues.

EZ Breathe on WGN Radio Frank Fontana Show

EZ Breathe on WGN Radio Frank Fontana Show

EZ Breathe on WGN Radio

Erika Lacroix explained how EZ Breathe can help us breathe easier in our homes and make us healthier in the process on the Frank Fontana show on WGN Radio.

Listen to the interview at http://wgnradio.com/2016/02/07/frank-fontana-show-2-7-16-a-clean-home-a-healthy-marriage-and-the-lisa-app/ (Erika’s interview begins at the 28 minute mark)

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Most Candles are as Toxic as Cigarettes. The Candles You Should Use!

Most Candles are as Toxic as Cigarettes. The Candles You Should Use!- EZ BreatheMost Candles are as Toxic as Cigarettes. The Candles You Should Use!

There is something about the soothing scent and glow from a flickering candle to warm the room. As an adult, one of my favorite Christmas gifts was a gift card to a popular candle store. Until I learned that not only was I filling my home with an artificial (although pleasant) fragrance, toxin were included in the fumes.

Many candles are made with paraffin or paraffin blend. This petroleum derivative is an inexpensive wax which is why it is often utilized by manufacturers.

People with asthma can have increased respiratory difficulty around burning paraffin candles and can be as dangerous as second hand smoke.

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When melted, paraffin releases fumes that are similar to those of a diesel engine, filling the air with carcinogenic chemicals.

Benzene and toluene are known carcinogens that are released into the air from melted paraffin causing headaches to lung cancer.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommended limited exposure to paraffin wax fumes. Paraffin fumes have been found to cause tumors in the kidneys and liver of lab animals.

Kitchen As A Pollution Hazard

Kitchen As A Pollution Hazard- EZ Breathe

Kitchen As A Pollution Hazard

By midmorning, the smell of hot peanut oil dissipated and inside the tightly sealed laboratory known as Building 51F, a pink hamburger sizzled in a pan over a raging gas flame. Overhead, fans whirred, whisking caustic smoke up through a metallic esophagus of ductwork.

Woody Delp, 49, a longhaired engineer in glasses — the Willie Nelson of HVAC — supervised the green bean and hamburger experiments. He sat at a computer inside a kitchen simulator, rows upon rows of numeric data appearing on his screen, ticking off the constituents of the plume sucked up the flue. A seared hamburger patty, as he sees it, is just a reliable source for indoor pollution.

“I can claim Alice Waters’ influenced the recipe,” he said. “It’s all fresh and local.”

But Dr. Delp and his colleagues aren’t really interested in testing recipes. They are scientists at the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the morning’s experiment concerned another kitchen conundrum, a fight against physics: how to remove harmful contaminants caused by cooking.

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Simply put, cooking is an act of controlled combustion — you set oil, fat, and carbohydrates on fire. As a health hazard, incinerating hamburgers and green beans may pale in comparison with lighting wood or coal fires indoors, the leading environmental cause of death and disability around the world. Yet frying, grilling or toasting foods with gas and electric appliances creates particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, and volatile organic compounds. (Acrolein, which most cooks recognize as the smell of burnt fats or oils, was used in grenades in World War I because it causes irritation to the lungs and eyes.)

Emissions of nitrogen dioxide in homes with gas stoves exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s definition of clean air in an estimated 55 percent to 70 percent of those homes, according to one model; a quarter of them have air quality worse than the worst recorded smog (nitrogen dioxide) event in London. Cooking represents one of the single largest contributors, generating particulate matter (formally known as PM2.5) at concentrations four times greater than major haze events in Beijing.

“Because we’re used to the smell, we don’t think of it as an issue,” said Jennifer M. Logue, 32, an air quality engineer at the Berkeley Lab. “When you live in a small building, you cook a lot and don’t use your range hood, which may not be very effective anyway, then you’re probably going to have a problem with pollutants from cooking.”

Recently Dr. Logue estimated the long-term health effects expected from hundreds of chemicals found in average homes. Her 2012 study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, used a common epidemiological metric known as disability-adjusted life-year to show that the population-wide health impact of indoor pollutants is on a par with that of car accidents, and greater than that of traditional concerns like secondhand smoke or radon.

“It’s well over violence,” she said. “It’s not a small risk.”

Federal policy and financing tends to focus on research outdoors — air quality, drinking water, wastewater, hazardous waste sites and soil contamination. “We haven’t had that regulatory driver for the indoor environment, and yet the indoor environment is probably the most important environment in terms of human health,” said Richard L. Corsi, an engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

“If you look at just the dose of toxic chemicals we take into our bodies during our lifetime that are of environmental origin, it’s dominated by the air that we breathe and the surfaces that we touch indoors,” Dr. Corsi said.

The Berkeley Lab’s research is driven, in part, by renewed efforts to tighten building envelopes and save on energy costs. Airtight buildings keep outdoors out, but they also trap contaminants. Efforts to mask odors — incense, candles, and air fresheners — exacerbate the hazard. After all, indoor combustion creates more pollutants that linger in tightly sealed spaces; and, formaldehyde, for example, is formed when ozone reacts with gases, especially scenting agents, plug-in air fresheners and cleaners.

Since people aren’t likely to stop cooking, the lab aims to come up with science-based ventilation standards. “People don’t need to radically change their lifestyles,” Dr. Logue said. “We need to change the building codes so that everyone gets a venting range hood.”

Current ventilation standards — the V in HVAC — represent a best engineering judgment. There’s never been much science involved in determining how well range hoods and other ventilation systems should work in terms of human health. Existing metrics for performance, most notably the Energy Star rating, measure energy use, not the impact of the appliance on human health.

And while it’s difficult to rid a home of the semi-volatile organic compounds that leak out of, say, a couch over a long period of time, volatile compounds from fire and water vapor can be removed with an effective kitchen fan. “A lot of homes don’t have that,” said Brett Singer, the lab’s director. “Secondly, a lot of the ones that do, people don’t use them, and thirdly, even if they have it and even if they use it, a lot of them don’t work very well.”

When they tested seven different commercially available range hood designs, Dr. Singer and Dr. Delp found that the airflow and the amount of burner exhaust and cooking contaminants whisked away — the so-called “capture efficiency” — varied from 15 percent to 98 percent. (Dr. Singer refers to recirculating hoods, only somewhat jokingly, as “forehead greasers.”)

Inside the kitchen simulator, fresh air whooshed through the room — an exchange rate of about 12 times per hour, nearly 40 times the amount circulating in an average home. But the experiments hadn’t generated much appetite. One lab assistant, Omsri Bharat, passed on the burgers because she is a vegetarian, and the other, Marcella Barrios, a science teacher, admitted to having packed a lunch.

Dr. Singer is optimistic that new scientific standards might even change habits inside actual homes. “We want people to cook,” he said. “The health of America will probably get better. We just want to make sure all those pollutants, vapors and moisture from cooking get vented outside.”

Peter Andrey Smith
The New York Times
07/22/2013

Seven Products Now on BPI Product List


Seven Products Now on BPI Product List- EZ Breathe
Seven Products Now on BPI Product List

Malta, NY, August 25, 2015 – The Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) has recognized several new products in its Product Listing Program that meet or exceed industry standards, providing contractors and consumers with quality assurance on products and materials in the residential energy upgrade marketplace.

BPI identifies the appropriate industry standard or efficacy requirement which the product must meet, then ensures the product meets the standard or protocol for its product group, such as ventilation, air sealing, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) or insulation. Once reviewed and approved, the product is added to BPI’s approved Product List on its website. The manufacturer is then eligible to place the BPI Product Mark on its packaging and marketing materials.

Not all products meet industry standards, so manufacturers included in this listing benefit from: differentiation of their higher quality materials, identification as a leader in the home performance industry and direct connection of consumers and contractors to their website. The BPI Product Mark on packaging, literature and advertising signals to the industry and consumers a high quality product that has been verified by a trusted third party.

There are currently seven products tested, approved and listed on the BPI Product Listing website.

FilterLock is a magnetic filter slot cover that seals a furnace or air conditioning system, manufactured by AllergyZone, LLC. This cover protects air conditioning systems and furnaces and helps reduce energy usage.

EZ Breathe Healthy Home Solutions manufactures two ventilation products that meet industry standards: EZ Breathe A400 Ventilation System and EZ Breathe Crawlspace Conditioner System. The EZ Breathe 1400 Ventilation System provides complete home air exchange that increases the indoor air quality (IAQ), reduces indoor humidity and lowers allergen and pollutant levels. The EZ Breathe Crawlspace Conditioner System satisfies the EPA’s requirements for mechanical exhaust ventilation and conditioned-air supply in crawlspaces. Both EZ Breathe products are maintenance free and operate efficiently at only $2-$4 a month.

Read the full article at: http://www.bpi.org/news_expansion.aspx?selectedID=2195