Carpet Flooring + Allergy => THE BEST THERE IS!!!
Meal time.
So I work for one of the most well-known carpet manufacturers in Germany and I just have to comment on what I partially read here:
Even though the topic of fine dust pollution is slowly disappearing from consumers’ minds due to declining media interest, it should be clear to everyone that the actual pollution problem has by no means disappeared.
Furthermore, it should be clear that excessive fine dust pollution poses a health risk not only on our streets and in nature but also at our workplaces and in our private living spaces.
Specifically for the private sector, the DAAB – German Allergy and Asthma Association – commissioned a study. For the study, the DAAB, together with the Society for Environmental and Indoor Analytics, measured the dust concentration in more than 100 North German row house Westphalian bedrooms, living rooms, and children’s rooms.
The results of this study are thus representative for indoor spaces of all kinds. They confirm what we as textile floor manufacturers and specialists have been repeatedly promoting as an argument for our products for many years.
Carpet flooring is good for the breathing air!
The air is cleaner due to carpet flooring, as a covering with a soft open surface particularly contributes as a dust binder to air purification and thus to improving the quality of life and living.
When using a hard floor covering, the risk of finding increased fine dust pollution indoors rises significantly, while the use of carpet flooring minimizes this risk. The results were presented to the public at the German Allergy and Asthma Day on Saturday, June 18, 2005, in Düsseldorf:
- In the discussion about the health hazards caused by fine dust pollution in inner cities, the German Allergy and Asthma Association (DAAB) considers the problem of indoor pollution to be massively underestimated. At the German Allergy and Asthma Day, Andreas Winkens from the Society for Environment and Indoor Analytics (GUI) said this is all the more incomprehensible since humans spend more than 90 percent of their lifetime indoors.
- The average fine dust concentration in indoor spaces with hard floors is twice as high as in indoor spaces with carpet flooring and exceeds the limit value. The arithmetic mean of fine dust concentration in rooms with hard floors is 62.9 µg/m³, significantly above the limit of 50 µg/m³. In households with carpet floors, the average is 30.4 µg/m³, thus well below the limit.
- According to the managing director of the DAAB, Andrea Wallrafen, fine dust is a major problem especially for allergy sufferers. Regardless of the type of inhaled dust, the particles themselves have a mechanical effect; when they enter the airways, they are irritating, said the expert. In pre-damaged bronchial systems, this effect is even stronger. Furthermore, other harmful substances such as allergens are attached to these particles, which can reach deep into the lungs and cause corresponding reactions.
Conclusion:
Anyone who floors their house/apartment with carpet flooring is protected from too much fine dust in the breathing air. Because the carpet binds the microscopic particles and thus removes them from the air.
The DAAB especially advises people with respiratory diseases to install carpet instead of hard floors.
From the perspective of air hygiene, carpet flooring is therefore no longer just a logical consequence for house dust allergy sufferers when choosing a floor covering...