Equipping your home with carpets is according to a new study protected against too much fine dust in the breathing air. The German allergy and asthma federation (DAAB) in cooperation with the Society for environmental and interior analytics has measured the concentration of dust in more than 100 North-Rhine/Westphalian bed, living and children’s rooms for this study. In homes with parquet, laminate or tiles the breathing air contained 62.9 microgramms per cubic meter of fine dust in the average. That’s 12.9 microgramms above the German legal limits for outside air. On the other side where carpet is covering the floor the air was significantly lower. The average fine dust concentration was with 30.4 microgramms per cubic meter far below the limit. The carpet binds the microscopically small particles and extracts them from the air. The DAAB suggests especially to people with trachial illnesses to use carpet instead of plain floor coverings.
Crucial is the cleaning: carpets should be vacuumed very often, plain floors wiped often.