Urban living and a Canadian climate that significantly changes season to season makes maintaining the temperature and air quality in our homes all the more important. Smartmi’s Rainforest humidifier and P1 air purifier will not only help you feel comfortable in your living space, they will look good doing it. Enter this contest for a chance to win one of these elegant appliances and find out what you can do to ensure the air your breathe at home is up to snuff (or sniff).

The importance of healthy home air quality

I first learned about the dangers of air particulates in the home when publishing a review here on the blog on the Airthings Radon monitor. Dust, pollen, pet dander, chemicals, smoke from forest fires, and city smog can all infiltrate your home and reduce the quality of the air you breathe. If you are susceptible to seasonal allergies or have sensitive sinuses and skin, it can become very uncomfortable to constantly be sniffling or have a partially blocked nose and itchy eyes. To make matters worse, often it’s the pollutants we cannot see or identify that make us feel the most discomfort in our own homes.

Long term exposure to lower quality air reduces sleep quality and can make the body’s resistance to seasonal flu and colds weaker. Dry air also dehydrates the skin and worsens conditions like eczema and asthma. So, placing humidifiers and air purifiers in the home can make a huge difference to optimizing your indoor air quality, especially for homes with children and pets. Read the blog reviews of the Smartmi P1 air purifier and Rainforest humidifier to learn how they perform in action.

7 tips to improve your home air quality

If you’d like to see a positive change in the air quality of your living space, here are some practical tips that will help:

  1. Cross ventilate: Though this is harder in the winter months, opening multiple windows or doors (even just a crack) for a few hours in the day will allow fresh outdoor air to circulate through rooms. This helps remove indoor pollutants and replenishes oxygen levels.
  2. Use HEPA air purifiers: True High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) purifiers filter out 99.97% of particles as small as 0.3 microns, including dust, pollen, pet dander, and even some bacteria. These air purifiers reduce allergens and respiratory irritants, providing cleaner air for you to breathe.
  3. Optimize humidity with humidifiers: Humidifiers help to add water to the air, which is very helpful during long winter months when heaters are always on. Optimal indoor humidity levels, between 30 – 50%, can mitigate water loss through the skin and prevent respiratory discomfort.
  4. Vacuum regularly: Vacuuming floors, carpets, and upholstery regularly with a HEPA filter-equipped vacuum will reduce the presence of dust and other allergens in the air, thus improving the quality of the air you breathe in.
  5. Reduce VOC products: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are emitted by various household products, such as cleaning liquids or paint, and contribute to indoor air pollution. Whenever possible, choose VOC-free or low VOC products to prevent those particulates from entering your home’s air system.
  6. Invest in houseplants: If you have a green thumb, maintaining houseplants like the spider plant, snake plant, or philodendron can help naturally purify indoor air by absorbing pollutants and releasing oxygen. They may not be as effective as an electric air purifier but they will add a pleasing green to your home.
  7. Maintain HVAC systems: Ensure your home’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is well-maintained. Replace filters regularly and clean ducts or dusty areas behind walls and under floors to improve system efficiency.

How to enter

Entering this contest is easy and you can enter in three different ways:

  1. In a comment below tell us which of the seven tips listed you find the most useful for your home, or feel free to share your own practical air quality improvement tip.
  2. In a comment below the review of the Smartmi P1 air purifier tell us which of its features is your favourite and why.
  3. In a comment below the review of the Rainforest humidifier tell us which room in your home you would place the humidifier in and why.

What you can win

At the end of the contest, we will randomly select two (2) winners from all eligible entries. One winner will receive the Smartmi Rainforest humidifier and the other will receive the Smartmi P1 air purifier.

This contest runs from Aug 14th to Aug 28th.

Remember you can enter up to three times to have the best chance of winning. Home air quality is not often talked about even though we spend a majority of our time eating, sleeping, and relaxing in our living spaces. Share this contest with anyone you think would benefit from better home air quality and encourage them to enter to have a chance to win.

Contest Rules: Smartmi Air Quality

Good luck!

Mahima Bhagwat
Mahima Bhagwat
Mahima is an editor at Best Buy Canada. She likes to watch sci-fi, supernatural, horror, and comedy TV shows and movies, and plays video games in her free time. When not avidly consuming content, she pursues her passion for storytelling by editing books and short stories, specializing in speculative fiction.

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  1. Invest in houseplants. I was just looking at a recent houseplant – spider plant and was amazed how it had grown

  3. Vacuum regularly: Vacuuming floors, carpets, and upholstery regularly with a HEPA filter-equipped vacuum will reduce the presence of dust and other allergens in the air, thus improving the quality of the air you breathe in.

  6. Reduce VOC products, great reminder.

    All the recommendation are important to maintaining good air quality.

  11. I have heard house plants are great, in fact my former doctor had a wall with several shelves just full of plants, i only wish i had a green thumb, but i keep trying

  14. Maintain HVAC systems-is the most useful because it is very important and many people neglect it including myself.

  15. HEPA air purifiers are a great choice! They are highly effective and practical. HEPA filters are great at capturing a wide range of particles, like allergens, dust, pet dander, and even some bacteria! currently it helps improve my indoor air quality! It is specifically designed to actively remove pollutants from the air. I find this really helpful for me since I have allergies.

  16. I have 12 plants in my little jack and jill room and right now were i live it is SO smokey and is extremely dry cause of the heat.

  17. I have 3 elderly dogs so frequent vacuuming is a must. I’d love to win an Air Purifier for my bedroom!!!

  20. Invest in houseplants. Not only do they help purify the air, they add aesthetic value and make people smile.

  21. Definitely houseplants! Talk about a win-win. I love them, love looking at them and if they help to keep the air clean, even better.

  23. Vacuuming regularly with a HEPA filter vacuum would really help, especially with the pets that we have.

  27. Tip #2, for 2/3rds of the year I suffer from allergies and it would be nice to find some sort of relief that’s not in pill form.

  30. Invest in plants is a great tip. I love to see green growing plants during all our seasons and it would be an effective way to help with air quality.

  34. Cross ventilate is the most useful tip and I have also found that dusting and vacuuming regularly helps improve air quality.

  35. Using HEPA air purifiers is so important! The air quality is so overburdened with the fires and anything I can do to improve the air quality in our home will have a positive impact on our health.

  36. We live on the forest here in the salmon capital and we get alot of pollens that can be harmful to us and our pets so this hepa fllter and humidifier would be doing two jobs at once for us. Both freshly retired health care so we have spent our lives being healthy and helping our clients in their homes do the same. Great write up Mahima and thank you. Go Team Health Care and gbye covid annnd our alarms. That sweet little rain forest unit would be ideal as our BC Rain Forest starts here on Quadra Island and we have rain and storms from September till November. Right here in our dining room overlooking our forest for two please and thank you. ..oh and goodbye scrubs, we live in the salmon capital and theyyyy’re baaaaack.

  37. I like to optimize humidity with humidifiers. My skin gets very dry during the winter with all the heaters on so humidifiers are essential for keeping the air moist and my skin from getting irritated by the dry air.

  38. The use of HEPA air purifiers eliminates so much in the air so you can breathe easier. Plants are also a good way to help clean the air and get more oxygen. You need to know which kinds to get. One even works at night!!!

  43. Using a HEPA air purifiers will really improve the air quality inside the home by reducing allergens and respiratory irritants we breath in.

  46. no doubt it would be vacuum frequently. I have a dog and cat and my home is s sea of pet hair. I must vacuum every day or else….

  50. Houseplants! Do some research and find that there are several that can add to a healthy plan to reduce contaminates in our homes, plus gardening is good for our mental health!

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