Home Clean Room

The concept of a home clean room is setting a side a room or smaller area in a home that is easier to isolate and keep specifically clean. In recent years the importance of having an area like this that can be set up has been highlighted, whether for illness isolation to prevent spread among the residents, or the proliferation of wildfires where air quality is greatly reduced for periods of time. This home clean room can even be beneficial if someone in the household is particularly sensitive to allergens.

Optimizing indoor air quality (AIQ) has many benefits, but can be challenging in the event of an illness of a resident or when there are external factors like wildfire smoke, nearby construction, or in rural areas where agriculture work may create dust. Even pet hair and dander, or seasonal factors like pollen or dust can contribute to issues for people more sensitive to poor air quality.

In each of these cases, there are benefits to both keeping surfaces and indoor air quality as clean as practical overall, which can be challenging. More severe factors such as an illness, nearby wildfires, construction or farming, or pollen, may call for setting up a specific area in the home as an especially protected area. This would be referred to as a home clean room.

We’ve selected several products that can assist in creating a home clean room, suitable for providing an area with cleaner air or even illness isolation, to make setting this area up easier. Categories are Indoor Air Quality, which focuses on products and devices that can safely and effectively filter the air; Cleaning and Disinfecting, where you can find helpful cleaning products to keep the area free from contaminants or germs; and Personal Protective Equipment, such as masks, gloves, and first aid supplies.

We've also collected some reference links for additional background information on the benefits of setting up a home clean room, and what the primary situations are where it is most effective.

Whether you purchase from us or not, please stay safe and take the necessary steps to protect yourself

From our Blog:

• Purifying the Air from Wildfire Smoke and Benefits of a Home Clean Room
• Benefits of Home Air Purification Units in a Home Clean Room

Reference links for creating a home clean room:

• EPA guidelines for creating a home clean room in affected wildfire areas
• Airnow.gov instructions for creating a home clean room during wildfires (PDF)