Do you 'air' your house?

Eliza_2

I love the feel of fresh air going through the house. If you don't air your house then where does the oxygen you breathe come from? I know in offices etc there are rules about the number of changes of air that need to take place in a day and so on to be healthy. I can't remember what they are but I just get sleepy if the rooms haven't had a good blow through with lots of fresh oxygen to keep my blood moving! And like others, the window is open by my bed at night unless it's below freezing which it hasn't been for the last couple of weeks. I wake up with a headache if I forget to open it at bedtime. Lovely to listen to the sounds of the night too.

I live in the country though and the door is always open, it's great to sit by a log fire cosy but with the coolness of the winter sun and breeze on you. Very old house, no damp. Frequently colder in than out! Probably different in a town though, with all those car fumes, I'd probably never want to open my windows either.

Not many spiders around at the moment surely anyway.

mishmogs

I live in a 70s house with good insulation and I also open windows and doors as often as possible to move the air around, let fresh air in and the old air out!! I also dry my washing indoors during the winter so I feel its important to open windows and doors.

Treevo

Get fly nets for your windows so nothing can get through but the air. I air my house daily throughout the year. I can't abide stale air or air 'fresheners'.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Never shut windows in my old flat. Balcony door was only shut at night. The bedroom was recorded as being minus 8 one winter, despite the heating being on.

And the place was riddled with three different colours of mould - black, orange and green/blue.


The landlord still insisted it was my fault. For breathing, obviously.

mucklebones

I am airing right now, but not because of damp or condensation but because I absolutely cannot stand the smell of cooking throughout the house, especially a while after I cooked it.

sparrer

I'm also phobic about the 8-legged things, can't write the name as I'll see it on my comp, if I see one on the page of a book/magazine I have to close it and can't pick it up again, and if there's one in the bedroom I'll sleep in the lounge til someone comes and removes it.

With two cats and a dog I was constantly opening and closing the garden door like a door attendant. A few years ago someone told me about a product called No More S*****s which contains chestnut extract, which you spray round door/window frames/anywhere they can get in as they hate chestnut. Naturally very sceptical indeed but gave it a try and I honestly don't get a single one in the house any more. It's been a real sanity saver, I can leave the back door open for the pets now rather than keep getting up and down and am not constantly looking at the walls and corners of the house.

I haven't seen it in the shops but get it from the people who leave books through the door. Just to verify, I'm nothing to do with them and never worked from them, this is just a genuine opinion of a particular product.

Oh, and it's nice to be able to air the house with animals about, so it doesn't smell.feel stuffy . hth

snozberry

ooohhh yes! I love leaving the back door open to let a steady stream of fresh air in. Obviously, when someone is in the house and the back garden is relatively secure. I don't like stuffy houses at all.

busiscoming2

My bathroom window is always open. The kitchen and bedroom windows are open when we are in and always at night Summer and Winter.

I can't abide smells or the thought of breathing in stale air.

My OH is a builder and often gets people asking him to price for new windows as the existing ones are mouldy. It usually transpires they never open their windows!

Nod_Off

My windows are only closed at night and no laundry is dried indoors yet I've got dreadful condensation and mould in the lounge and bedroom! I'm always the exception to the rule

rileydog

sparrer wrote: »

I'm also phobic about the 8-legged things, can't write the name as I'll see it on my comp, if I see one on the page of a book/magazine I have to close it and can't pick it up again, and if there's one in the bedroom I'll sleep in the lounge til someone comes and removes it.

With two cats and a dog I was constantly opening and closing the garden door like a door attendant. A few years ago someone told me about a product called No More S*****s which contains chestnut extract, which you spray round door/window frames/anywhere they can get in as they hate chestnut. Naturally very sceptical indeed but gave it a try and I honestly don't get a single one in the house any more. It's been a real sanity saver, I can leave the back door open for the pets now rather than keep getting up and down and am not constantly looking at the walls and corners of the house.

I haven't seen it in the shops but get it from the people who leave books through the door. Just to verify, I'm nothing to do with them and never worked from them, this is just a genuine opinion of a particular product.

Oh, and it's nice to be able to air the house with animals about, so it doesn't smell.feel stuffy . hth

Thanks, you sound like me - even seeing one on a page of a magazine/newspaper for a split second sends my heartrate sky high and I tense up :eek: I have some of that spray - and conkers on the floor, and vet strength flea spray on the carpet which lasts 12 months, and screens on some of the windows, and a super-strength spider spray imported from Oz - and I keep my wondows shut!