Q We have in-floor heat and double-pane, energy-efficient windows in our house. If we run the air-to-air, the air in the house becomes extremely dry. So we've started running a small humidifier. Is ...

Q: This winter, my family and I have been spending a lot of time bundled up indoors. Is breathing all this indoor air good for us? A: We spend most of our lives indoors. Whether at work, school, ...

Walk into almost any house built before modern building codes and you can feel it in the air: rooms that never quite dry out, ...

A newly built home in San Francisco, Residence 950, takes indoor air quality very seriously. Built in 2018 by Troon Pacific, the 9,500-square foot home on Russian Hill has hospital grade air ...

To read more about indoor air quality from Pretty Good House: A Guide to Creating Better Homes, go to the author's website. The planet is heating up, faster than we thought it would. As this chapter ...

[Marcel] thought – what if he had more control over his house ventilation system? You could add some nifty features, such as automatically ventilating your house in the mornings when everyone’s away, ...

“Passive house” can rank pretty far up the list of inadvertently misleading phrases. Realizing the momentous energy-saving potential of this approach requires plenty of active effort on the part of ...

When winter comes around and the heating bills start rolling in, it only makes sense to start exploring ways to help reduce your energy costs at home. Of course, you can try out all kinds of tricks ...