Airing rooms is an essential action to protect health and to fight against Covid-19

Indoor air is 2-8 times more polluted than outdoor air, yet this is where we spend the most time. In this time of pandemic, it has become essential to follow health recommendations, and in particular the simple and effective actions we should take on a daily basis. Airing out your home has many advantages!

Why ventilate your house?

Our homes contain many things, to say the least! Our furniture is made with volatile pollutants, and our clothes, sheets and carpets release dust or contain dust mites. Circulating the air of the rooms in your house allows you to evacuate all these things that are harmful to our health.

We also do a lot of things in our homes. There are often unpleasant odours emitted from the kitchen sometimes (burnt fat for example), also, cleaning with solvents or cleaning products releases pollutants, and taking a shower generates humidity, which can lead to mould if the vapour is not evacuated. Even our breathing generates CO2 that we need to get rid of! As you know, nothing beats opening the windows for a breath of fresh air to generate a healthy and pleasant air circulation around the house.

Refreshing the air in the house is also an effective way of stopping the aerosol transmission of viruses, and fighting allergies caused by the lack of fresh air and the resulting poor air quality. A simple action with many benefits!

Air for 10 minutes a day

Would you like to live in a healthy home? It takes just 10 minutes per room twice a day. This in effect is the minimum time necessary and recommended by WHO to refresh the air in a room effectively in order to cleanse your indoor environment. For example, you can enjoy the benefits of fresh air in your bedroom at night by ventilating prior to going to sleep. The ideal situation is to do this morning and evening, so your home is never left unventilated for too long.

However, this simple action can quickly become a bind to do everyday... This is why Somfy offers an innovative solution with Somfy air: a range of systems that create smart windows. Your home becomes a more comfortable and convenient place to live with a fresh air ventilation system. The window opens a few inches and locks in the "secure ventilation" position to allow secure indoor air circulation. Now it's easy to have the benefits of fresh air, improve the quality of the air in your home and your family's well-being, without compromising on security or energy efficiency.

You can ventilate all your rooms, even those without windows

Ventilating a room without windows is also possible! If your bathroom, your storage room or a hallway in your house has no window, you can install a CMV (Controlled Mechanical Ventilation).

As its name suggests, this is an air circulation system to refresh the air in the room, allowing you to ventilate it even without a window and thus create a perfectly healthy atmosphere!

Ventilate in all seasons

The cold and rainy seasons encourage us to stay nice and snug at home, and we don't like to think about throwing the windows open! Yet despite the cold, air ventilation in your home has never been more important than during this time of the Covid-19 pandemic. Air circulation must therefore be practiced year round, including the winter months. However, you need not worry about a negative impact on your heating bill with this!

With Somfy motorised and connected windows, your get smart windows whose opening and closing are programmed automatically to avoid you having to think about it. And to avoid energy loss in winter, program the heating to cut off at the same time as the sliding window opens, and all from your TaHoma application.Once the 10 minutes have elapsed, the windows will close automatically, the air in your home will be purified and the heating will come back on. This also reduces the humidity level in your rooms, which increases the efficiency of your heating system without any impact on your bill!

In summer, during very hot weather, keep your windows closed during the day and open them late at night or early in the morning, so as to cool and ventilate your home without having to turn on the air conditioning. In addition, you can continue to ventilate your home securely at night and create a natural draught by opening your sliding windows to the "secure ventilation" position. This allows your windows to open a few inches, which then lock to prevent intrusion.

Choose your schedules

Finally, certain times are more conducive than others to ventilating your home. Airing out your home early in the morning (before 10 a.m.) or in the evening (after 9 p.m.), especially if you live in the city, will allow you to avoid the hours when the pollution is most intense. Indeed, opening your windows overlooking a street that is saturated with traffic will not be beneficial for the air in your home, which will then be inundated with pollutants and bad smells!

Follow these tips and your home will finally be able to breathe, as will you! Now enjoy quality indoor air, free from pollution and viruses, which can only be good for your health. To learn more about our smart windows, visit this dedicated page on our website.