Open windows and affect on PH

[jda]

Yes, fresh air can make that big of a difference. Just imagine what you can do with some power and replacing the air in the whole home instead of just a room.

Even on 100+ degree days in Missouri, we were in the 70s and night. In Colorado now and winter days can be rough, but it only has to be 40-50 for 5-10 minutes of air exchange that does not even drop the temp in the home - even if the home air temp drops a degree or two, what is that like 10 cents of natural gas... compare that to the cost of soda lime, delivery fees and gas, reactor cost, etc.

This is a $20 pH fix that helps the people and the pets in the home too. Fan in one room, open window in another. Do this in the basement too.

Allergies are the only reason that I can think of not to do this more. The other one is that you can get addicted to fresh air.

 

[Salty_Northerner]

Yes, fresh air can make that big of a difference. Just imagine what you can do with some power and replacing the air in the whole home instead of just a room.

Even on 100+ degree days in Missouri, we were in the 70s and night. In Colorado now and winter days can be rough, but it only has to be 40-50 for 5-10 minutes of air exchange that does not even drop the temp in the home - even if the home air temp drops a degree or two, what is that like 10 cents of natural gas... compare that to the cost of soda lime, delivery fees and gas, reactor cost, etc.

This is a $20 pH fix that helps the people and the pets in the home too. Fan in one room, open window in another. Do this in the basement too.

Allergies are the only reason that I can think of not to do this more. The other one is that you can get addicted to fresh air.

Yeah, I've never heard a fresh air hurting anyone LOL.. but with my little experience I had yesterday it really opened my eyes on how much CO2 is actually in the room. That makes me wonder how much CO2 is in my big truck especially when I'm stopped for the night and sleeping in the back. I have optimized idle set on the truck where it runs the HVAC system during the winter and summer. I know when I enable it and the engine shuts down I can hear one of the vent doors under the dash opening up for fresh air. I think I'll be cracking my window in the sleeper from now on at night lol.. that probably explains why I feel so tired when I wake up in the morning.. too much CO2 and not enough oxygen.

Sorry I went off topic there but yeah it really makes a person think on the changes just from having a few people and a few pets in a home and what it does to the aquarium pH.

 

[jda]

My wife and kids complained many years ago about cracked and open windows in the winter. Not long after they would tell me that the air in the home was bad and that we should run the attic fan for a few minutes. You can buy a co2 meter pretty inexpensively that are a decent swag.

What a co2 meter will tell you is that even if you get fresh air into a room, it all goes back up once the HVAC runs for a bit and the high co2 air from other rooms starts to mix. If you air out the whole house, it takes weeks for the co2 levels to climb again.

 

[Clownfishy]

The best thing I ever brought was a Awair monitor that also measures C02. You will be shocked at how high C02 levels get to especially during the night.
I can guarantee my pH will be low when my C02 levels go above 850ppm

 

[Dennis Cartier]

The best thing you can do for pH, and your health, is to install an HRV/ERV. You will never struggle with pH again ... or at least you shouldn't.