Indoor climate and furniture

Indoor climate and furniture 

Danes spend a lot of time indoors either in their homes or at work. The indoor climate is of great importance for your well-being at home or at work. A poor indoor climate negatively affects people's ability to concentrate and work and may be responsible for increased illness.

You can achieve a good indoor climate by airing out or having good ventilation, minimizing the outgassing from materials and cleaning and maintaining a good relative humidity so that moisture and a breeding ground for microorganisms are not created. You must also avoid temperature fluctuations and drafts, just as it is important to have good acoustics in the room

Therefore, please let new furniture evaporate when you buy a new piece of furniture. It is a good idea to unpack the furniture somewhere else, such as an attic or in the garage, and let it steam off before it comes into the home.

If you have time for it, it may be a good idea to let the product degas for a month. In this way, fewer chemicals are released to the places where you spend the most hours a day. Alternatively, you can provide extra good ventilation for up to a month. You can also ensure extra good cleaning, as degassed substances can connect to the dust.

It is mainly glue and varnished and impregnated products that degas, but untreated wood can also have significant degassing. There is a big difference in how quickly they degas.

For the Danish market, there is the Danish Indoor Climate Label, which sets requirements for the product in its use phase and includes the products' impact on the air quality in the indoor climate. Danish Indoor Climate Labeling is run by the Technological Institute. The indoor climate label thus complements the environmental labels by setting requirements for the product in the use phase and thereby minimizing people's exposure to unwanted chemicals while the product is in use.