Home Health Quiz
By Gil Gross - Real Estate Today Radio
How healthy do you think your home is? How much do you know about home health and safety? Take this quiz to find out the answer to some of your Home Health Questions!
1. The first step to making your home healthier is to:
A. Take out the trash.
B. Open a window.
C. Wash your hands.
Answer. Well, the answer may surprise you – it’s opening a window. The air in your home is potentially full of toxins, emitted from paint, carpet and furniture. In fact, research has shown the air you breath indoors is often up to 100 percent dirtier than the air outside. Opening a window to let fresh air in is no final solution, but it’s a start.
2. The healthiest type of carpet for your home is:
A. Shag
B. Berber
C. No carpet at all.
Answer. The answer is no carpet. You may like the soft feel under your toes, but hard wood or tile floors are much healthier than carpet, which often is full of noxious chemicals that will continue to release into the air for years to come. Not only that, but rugs and carpets are magnets for dust, bugs, pet dander, pollen and lots of other nasty stuff that can make you sick.
3. The worst thing that can happen if you don’t follow up on a water leak in your home is:
A. You’ll have a mess on your hands.
B. You’ll have serious structural damage to your home.
C. You or a family member could potentially die.
Answer. Believe it or not – the answer is death!
Water leaks often cause mold to grow in homes, mold that can spread and trigger allergic reactions, asthma attacks, and in extreme cases, create a potentially lethal toxic shock in some people. If you have any sign of a water leak in your home, you really need to take care of it immediately.
4. The best time to wear shoes at home is:
A. Always.
B. Never.
C. Only on carpeted floors.
Answer. The answer is never, especially if you’ve been wearing those shoes outside. Shoes track all kinds of stuff around your house, from germs to pesticides to unmentionable organic waste material. It really is best to leave them at the door.
5. Pesticides are best used:
A. Liberally to get rid of those nasty bugs and rodents.
B. In limited amounts only as necessary in places where the infestation is severe.
C. In the trash where they belong.
Answer. The answer really, not at all. Pesticides and herbicides are, after all – poison. If they kill bugs and rodents, they can, at the very least – make you and your family sick. Most of the things that pesticides can fix can be dealt with by keeping your home clean. And as for your lawn – a little elbow grease pulling weeds never hurt anyone!
6. The best type of dish for heating up food in the microwave is made of :
A. Aluminum
B. Glass
C. Plastic.
Answer. The answer is glass. Aluminum can, of course, cause sparks to go off in your oven, and could even break it. And plastic is full of chemicals that can leach right into your food when it’s heated. That goes for cling wrap as well. Make sure you cover your food with paper towels instead. Using ceramic or stoneware works just as well as glass by the way.
7. The healthiest water to drink at home is:
A. Straight from the tap.
B. Straight from the bottle.
C. Strained through a filter.
Answer. The answer is that Brita is indeed better. Brita or any one of a number of devices that filters your tap water. There really is no reliable standard for making sure bottled water is clean in the U.S., plus there are concerns that some types of plastic bottles release toxins into the water. Filters for your tap water provide an extra level of protection that will not only take out pollutants – it may make your water more tasty as well.
Thanks to Gil Gross fo Real Estate Today Radio for that great quiz! If you need more information about Home Health Issues( i.e., lead a paint, carbon monoxide, radon) Please call me and I'll provide answers for you. Call or text me at 303-898-9000 or email me at Steve@SteveJacobson.com I'd love to hear from you.