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Review on 🌬️ Monitoring Indoor Air Quality with the Stellate Detector: Ensuring a Healthy Environment by Patrick Arnautov

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Buy a device with at least the best manual or bad, average or average, good readings.

Okay, I admit I had trouble with this review. I've read that exposure to formaldehyde can range from eye irritation to cancer to breathing problems. I followed the instructions in the manual and "aired" the unit outside (twice) for more than ten minutes and zeroed it to calibrate. Then I brought him into the house. The device showed almost inconsistent readings for HCSO or formaldehyde. The "quality" of the air was green or good. It was the only scale that did not require a chemistry degree to interpret. The particulates were ok too, but the VOC scale was higher, but I don't know how much that's too high. Neither my wife nor I have any symptoms. So since neither the manual nor the device explains or defines the danger levels and we have no symptoms, not even mild ones, I don't know if this is being read correctly. I have to say this house is over 60 years old, has chipboard floors, carpets etc but no urethane insulation and is all 30 to 40 years old. I don't know what can explain the high readings if they are actually valid.

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