How to Vacuum Carpets to Improve Indoor Air Quality (Brush Roll?)

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Greetings my fellow renegades. In this video, I’ll explain why I use a HEPA filtered vacuum, and then I’ll show you HOW to use it on carpets to dramatically improve your indoor air quality. And I’ll prove that this technique works with a particulate monitoring test.
Intro - 0:00
A better explanation of HEPA filtration - 0:13
How particulate matter (PM) affects health - 1:46
Do I have PM in my home? - 2:22
VACUUMING CAN DECREASE INDOOR AIR QUALITY - 3:44
HEPA vac buying advice - 4:20
HOW TO VACUUM CARPETS (low-medium pile) PROPERLY - 4:51
TEST of a suction-impelled brush roll - 5:56
High-pile carpets - 7:49
Hard surfaces - 8:26
Checking if your HEPA filter is genuine - 8:34
Products I recommended:
-Miele Complete C3 Calima HEPA vac: amzn.to/3VkJU7e
-Dylos DC1100 PRO particle counter: amzn.to/3V1ssmy
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Some HEPA vacuum research:
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WHO research about how PM is linked to morbidity and mortality:
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@user-ek4pg9wn2d 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for another interesting and informative video on improving indoor air quality. A topic i think you might find interesting is methods of passive de-humidification and humidity buffering. I live in a hot wet tropical environment, and to manage humidity have installed solar powered intake fans which only run while the sun is shining. Coupling these fans with large amounts of silica gel i have been able to stabilise the indoor humidity over the duration of the day without relying on air conditioning. Cheers.

@HealthyHomeGuide 7 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Your suggestion is a good one and I’ll put it on my list. I’m intrigued and impressed by what you were able to do with stabilizing humidity in that way.

@naturesmoments1297 25 күн бұрын

Textiles, clothes and bedding contribute a lot of fibres too, this is something I have tried to eliminate or reduce by moving away from anything synthetic, especially items such as fleeces. Totally agree on removing carpets and going with smooth wooden or similar floors, much easier to keep clean whilst showing dust particles quite quickly, one of those green torches (flashlight) is also a good option, cheers

@penelopemaynard9016 27 күн бұрын

i love to agitate carpets! you are a font of wisdom and truth, thanks very much!

@HealthyHomeGuide 27 күн бұрын

Much appreciated!

@sepistedi3737 8 ай бұрын

I love to agitate carpets! Very useful content! Just intalled diy HEPA filter box for fresh air intake. My workshop air quality improved massively! Must update shopvac filter too.. Thanks for the info man!

@HealthyHomeGuide 8 ай бұрын

Nice, a fellow carpet agitator 😂 HEPA all the way! Good luck with your projects.

@falamble 8 ай бұрын

I love to agitate carpets. this is a really fantastic channel. informative, well researched, clearly explained. I hope you stick at it and that the algorithm rewards you in time with the viewership this kind of content deserves, above and beyond low quality hot take and reaction channels.

@falamble 8 ай бұрын

also big fan of your use of practical experiment and demonstration and not just relaying existing information! I had a suction impeller already but had no idea how much difference it makes compared to a regular head!

@HealthyHomeGuide 8 ай бұрын

I really appreciate this comment, thank you! It’s gratifying that you value that I don’t just relay existing information, and that I research thoroughly. Enjoy your brush roll ☺️

@IntegrityMeansAll 3 ай бұрын

@@HealthyHomeGuideThank you so much for this info and videos 🙏

@Slipperypuffin 8 ай бұрын

Even hepa is not perfect, I would highly recommend an outdoor evacuating central vacuum system

@HealthyHomeGuide 8 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree. It’s definitely quite a project to set up a central vac though. Maybe I’ll do a video about it in the future!

@NurseAcrobat 8 ай бұрын

One advantage of the outdoor evacuating central vac system that I would really like is the relative quiet indoors. My daughter doesn't appreciate the Miele even on its quietest setting but loves our little robot vacuum (not hepa) that cleans our non carpet areas. If we were keeping more carpet a central vac system might be on my wishlist.

@Slipperypuffin 7 ай бұрын

You can even just use a shop vac with an exhaust hose out a window

@NurseAcrobat 8 ай бұрын

I love to agitate carpets :-) Enjoying your videos as always. One of the first things I did upon getting a 1980s mostly carpeted house early last year was have it professionally steam cleaned before bringing a lot of stuff into the house. My wife and I wanted to see how much we could happily live with before starting to replace things so I got a Miele C1 Homecare hepa vac with carpet attachment from a local dealer that services them. I feel much better using a vacuum that isn't blowing much of what I've vacuumed back into the air, and also use hepa filters with my shop vac when doing renovation projects. We started replacing the carpet in most of the downstairs soon after moving in and were shocked at how much dust was present even after a professional cleaning. Much of it was from the carpet pad dissolving over the decades but there was also just a lot of household dust that had seeped through. I've replaced ~1000 square feet with Flooret luxury vinyl plank and been happy with it so far, but if I were starting fresh I'd also consider traditional narrow wood flooring in dry areas and porcelain tile in wet areas. It would have been much easier to replace the floors before moving everything in, but I got the vacuum thinking we might keep more of the carpet. My daughter is guarding the carpet in her room but I'll eventually see if we can appease her with a big soft washable rug ;-) I still appreciate the Miele vacuum but it's even nicer to have less carpet to deal with. It's down to just being in two of the upstairs bedrooms and the upstairs hallway now, and we've so far kept the old vinyl sheeting in wet areas (kitchen, bathrooms, and laundry room) but will eventually do either more Flooret or real tile. The Flooret Modin Craftsman line is the nicest LVP I've come across with the thickest wear layer, supposedly low VOCs, and DIY install was a good experience, though not much cheaper than a solid wood floor if doing narrow planks vs the in vogue wide plank style.

@HealthyHomeGuide 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, as always 😊 it’s absolutely crazy how much dust carpets can contain. It’s almost like cleaning a particularly old one is futile. An infinite task. They are indeed best removed in many cases.

@NurseAcrobat 7 ай бұрын

@@HealthyHomeGuide I was surprised when the carpet cleaner recommended against putting any more money into the old carpet due to its condition, but also didn't try to sell me new carpet. When my parents removed their carpet years ago to help with my brother's allergies they just left the bare plywood vs adding new flooring. It's interesting to reflect on and realize how much/little is necessary. Nearly 35 years later that house still has bare plywood floors with no added finish (not something I'd recommend).

@DK-vx5co 5 ай бұрын

We build Net Zero Energy high-performance homes. I like this channel for it's gorilla solutions. It's how many of the very best systems first get started. Do you wear shoes in the house? You get rid of 95% of the problem if you remove your shoes when you enter. We lived in Japan (tatami mats) and Germany (where they love white carpets) and we learned to be much more comfortable with our shoes off. Animals make their business, birds refuse to stop off at bathrooms, environmental pollution constantly falls and all sorts of things putrefy on the surfaces you walk on. Would you wear your shoes to bed? We eliminate most of the problem if we do not rub this stuff all over the house. Ever seen a sunbeam coming through the window? That is large-micron particles filling your air and entering your lungs. A hair is 150 microns wide. PM2.5 is so small you cannot see it, so it's usually more pervasive. (BTW, Asbestos is sub-micron and will hang in the air like grains of rice in jello, for years, waiting to enter your lungs, which is why it's so bad.) Ever chase a coin down between the sofa cushions? That is how stuff works in your carpet. Every time you walk by, it goes farther and farther down. 24 hours/day, 365 days/year, for years & years stuff & gravity is pulling various particles down, down, down. For 3 seconds, once a week, a vacuum tries to pull some of this up and a lot "bypasses" in a vacuum that is not truly "HEPA". I've taken up LOTS of carpet and, as a rule, it's generally gross as you have experienced. On your hard floors, you see dust bunnies in a few days, which are camouflaged with carpet. Carpet is a petri dish of grossness. Taking up carpet is great. Leaving the subfloor is OK too. Might want to paint with a low/no VOC paint or stain or finish to prevent chipping & slivers. I've seen many "modern" or "edgy" homes with this solution and it can look very interesting. We once painted a concrete slab with a quick wipe of left-over paint, stenciled the border and a large, nice wool rug in the center, and this became my favorite room ever. A finish on the floor also helps where it might get wet and delaminate. Where your comment gets concerning is Vinyl. It's Poison, with a capitol "P". There is an area called the "Cancer Triangle" where vinyl products are made and cancer rates are off the charts. In the 1950s Asbestos was used before vinyl, but it killed people and stuff. Some people spend 95% of their time indoors, especially since COVID - it better be healthy. Prevention is better than a cure. These & similar toxins are EVERYWHERE; so it makes sense to reduce the toxic load with each decision we make in order to, not eliminate, but reduce our exposure to these things that want to rob our health. We keep the poisons & toxics OUT of the homes we build. Again, we try to eliminate 95% of the problem at the start. VINYL is toxic, and it creates Dioxin (CANCER stuff) when it burns. Cancer on cancer. Keep it out of the house. "LVP" and vinyl of any sort is just marketing nonsense for selling poison, like they did with asbestos, lead and cigarettes for a hundred years. I hate that they use that sort of marketing ("Luxury" in LVP) but it makes profits when the sheeple fall for it. It's a cheap concoction of poisonous VOCs that can be marketed and sold for a tidy product. Covering an entire floor creates HUGE surface area of exposure; and is made worse when the sun shines on it and cooks it off. We see floor temps of 140 degrees with our thermal cameras. Cooking = Dioxin. Every time you walk on it, it stirs up, as discussed in the video we are viewing. Personally, I work to eliminate any and all vinyl in any home we work in. It's cheap, profitable garbage which, like you mentioned, is not much less expensive than something like wood with a healthy finish; and it won't turn your home into a toxic soup. Given that there are 50-150 various VOCs in the average home, Using a quality ERV with a "reverse bottleneck" HEPA filter is probably the best thing you can do. Since the US is made up of many, many micro-climates, there is an HRV-ERV debate, but getting fresh, filtered air into bedrooms & pulling polluted air from chemical and moisture areas (baths, laundries & kitchens) is super-smart, & healthy. Be safe!

@HealthyHomeGuide 5 ай бұрын

@@DK-vx5co lots of great information and tips in this comment, thank you!

@HealthyHomeGuide 5 ай бұрын

@@DK-vx5coI 100% agree about not wearing shoes in the house!

@GDoggProductions 28 күн бұрын

i really don't wannna wack my carpet 😭lol great video!!!

@HealthyHomeGuide 28 күн бұрын

Hahah. I wacked my carpets so you don't have to!

@AkosLukacs42 8 ай бұрын

This, 1000 times!

@HealthyHomeGuide 8 ай бұрын

Amen 🙏

@coolguy6064 2 ай бұрын

around 4:40 you recommend doing our own rech into "" to have a higher quality HEPA vacuum. How would you recommend doing that? The only idea I'm coming up with is purchasing multiple vacuums and having a relatively expensive particulate tester to make sure it's all properly around the brush head, which doesn't seem too practical. :)

@emilishungry Ай бұрын

How do I know if a vacuum cleaner is suction impelled

@HealthyHomeGuide Ай бұрын

Basically if it has a brush roll that isn't motorized (aka electrobrushes - avoid those). The brush heads you want will typically be called turbo or power brush heads.