Bad smells: beware of danger

Do you have a foul odor that overwhelms your home and assaults your nostrils? If it's not a mature cheese left in your fridge, the problem may be that the humidity in your home is too high.

An interior that is too humid can give off a musty smell, even mold and rot. This is true even if your building is modern. On the contrary, since modern buildings are better insulated, it is likely that ventilation is less efficient and that the air is not easily renewed.

Our interiors have become airtight submarines from which the stale air no longer escapes. The Observatory of the Indoor Air Quality has highlighted that 60% of the installations of VMC are not in conformity with the decree of 1982 on the ventilation of the buildings and that they prove most of the time ineffective from the point of view of the quality of the air.

Put more clearly: our interiors are 5 to 9 times more polluted than the air outside. This has devastating effects on our health. A large part of the components responsible for air pollution have been declared certain carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Moreover, 74% of allergies are linked to indoor air pollutants. Many chronic or severe respiratory diseases are due to poor indoor air quality.

These figures are staggering when we know that we spend at least 80% of our time indoors. So don't wait any longer and at the first smell of mold, contact us for a free diagnosis.