Avoiding Contaminated Indoor Air Quality Testing

This is especially the case in air quality control companies. Some companies will evaluate your situation and present you with contaminated indoor air quality testing results in order to try to sell you more products and services.

Signs to look out for

Contaminated indoor air quality testing isn’t a common concern of most homeowners because they want to believe that everyone is honest.

And since the air that is around you isn’t going to necessarily show you where you might have problems, you have to trust what the specialists are saying and what results they show you.

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If your results are higher for particulates and your family isn’t experiencing any upper respiratory issues, you will want to get a second opinion from another company. When the current company disagrees that you do this, they might have changed your air quality results.

Any company that provides you with contaminated indoor air quality testing may also try to pressure you into buying their air quality control systems.

They might use emotional pressuring as well as scare tactics to try to talk you into making decisions on the spot, instead of shopping around.

Whenever you feel pressured, you should always allow yourself some time to consider your choices and any reputable company should understand this.

But people do make mistakes

However, instead of thinking that the contaminated indoor air quality testing is an attempt to pressure you into air quality controls, you might want to just ask for a retest on another day.

There may have been an equipment malfunction that skewed the test results, and it wasn’t any fault of their own. If you dispute the results, the testing company should offer to perform the test again.

Should the results be the same the next time, you can usually feel confident that the test was done accurately.

Abnormally high air quality tests always warrant a second test, and the company will usually recommend it. Honest companies don’t want to base their recommendations off of a contaminated indoor air quality testing result, they want to give you only what you need from their services.

Steve Taub, an emission control specialist, can help you sort through any other questions you might have, as well as concerns. He’s an expert that knows what you need and what you want in and out of your air.