Comments on: Inviting the Fresh Air In

By: katherine jenson

katherine jenson — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:37:47 +0000

In the wintertime, I air the house out twice a week. All heaters turned off, kids bundled up and doors and windows open. I also do deep cleaning at this time all scatter rugs are hung outside after being shaken. Once the cleaning is done, all windows and doors are closed up, something is placed in the oven to get things warm quickly and we loose the extra clothing as the rooms warm up again. The good thing is when it is cold and everything is opened..you work quickly.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:02:26 +0000

Just imagine breathing the same air over and over! UGGGGGHHHHH! Anyhow, I have lots of trees around my home and they’re constantly making OOOOOO’s for me, so why wouldn’t I let OOOOO’s in? A no brainer! Anyhow, our bodies thrive on an OXYGEN BATH! So strip off those clothes and let it breathe fresh air! Winter/spring/summer or Fall! Breathe in those fresh breaths of God-given air! While cooking, I open the windows! Sorry, that’s gross to think of all those greasy fumes whether baking or frying or boiling or whatever hanging around! And guess what? I never do any frying or malodorous cooking indoors! It’s too easy to buy a tank of propane LPG and a cheap 100 dollar weekend camper double-eye burner rig from a hardware store or sports shop. Those cooking odors/vapors get into your finer things and ewwwwwww that’s nasty! Get an outdoor cooker for those! Houses cost a fortune to revitalize once ruined by cooking odors and grease, uggggghhhhhhh! Don’t do it!

By: SoBella Creations

SoBella Creations — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:42:10 +0000

I love airing the house out. But, since I live in Florida where it is hot practically year round. The only time we can air out the house is in early Spring and late Fall. SoBella Creations´s last blog post..My First Blog Award

By: Jasi

Jasi — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:17:16 +0000

I love letting open the windows every day. But I don’t. My husband is terrified of the cold and a breeze… forget it. We have two small children and he’s very afraid they will get sick if I open the windows. I’m concerned for the opposite. Fresh air makes you hearty, I think. For the Winter, at least, he wins out. But come Spring, allergies or not, this house is going to breathe.

By: The Shopping Sherpa

The Shopping Sherpa — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:03:45 +0000

Three of my five upstairs windows (bedroom, office, bathroom) are locked about an inch open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Plus my downstairs toilet window has mesh instead of glass on the top 10 centimetres. On top of that, if I'm home the back door is open from spring through autumn assuming it's not raining. The screen door is always locked (I'm not silly!) And at this time of the year when the outside cools down in the evening I throw all the upstairs windows open to let the heat escape and the cool air come in. The Shopping Sherpa´s last blog post..The Bendigo or Bust Road Trip (Day Three)

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:29:53 +0000

I wish I did this more. Living in Florida it's a little hard with it being 80 degrees and humid most of the year. Plus, when we bought our house, it had no screens on the windows, which is now on the list of a million things to do. Amanda´s last blog post..Let’s Switch Things Up A Bit

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:21:34 +0000

I had to post – I love to have the windows open in the Spring – Fall, and do as much as I can, though we try to keep an eye on the inside vs outside temp in the Summer and close the windows before it gets too hot & muggy outside so we have to run the AC as little as possible. But we don’t normally open any windows once it gets to be winter here (Northern Ohio).

However… We heat mainly with a woodstove, and so before we go to bed, my husband tries to stuff as much wood in as he can so the fire will burn most of the night. Monday night he finally picked a piece that was just a little too big such that it got stuck going in. So he had all the stove doors open trying to get this piece of wood in or out, and meanwhile smoke was filling up the house (having fire alarms go off late at night when your toddlers are in bed = bad idea). We ran around opening all the windows to try to let the smoke out, and I remembered having read this post earlier in the day and thought about what an interesting coincidence it was as we shivered through our forced airing-out of the house.

By: nicola

nicola — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:10:53 +0000

yes! in fact we have been having unseasonably warm, extremely windy (it blew my clothes tree out of the stand and snapped it in half !!!) weather here. first thing i did was open all the windows to let the air flow through. so nice!
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By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:16:46 +0000

I try, but down here it’s so humid just about all the time that everything feels damp after just a few hours. We ARE getting a cold front through here today, so maybe by this weekend I’ll be able to before the humidity starts rising!

By: Beate

Beate — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:54:56 +0000

I air my flat every morning and evening for 10 minutes or so – plus I sleep with the bedroom window open (I live in Frankfurt, Germany, where it was very cold for the last two weeks – down to -10 celsius). In the summer, I keep the windows open all night and close everything during the day, to keep the heat out.

I suppose I would not air my flat like this if I lived in the cold Mid-West or Canada!