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I recently bought a CO2 monitor, and found that my girlfriend's apartment is regularly over 1200 ppm. Is there anything I can do about this issue? We can't just

• trobertson 8y ago
  You could get a bunch of plants. They probably won't solve the problem outright, but they are a good first step.
• kilotaras 8y ago
  Take a look at heat recovery ventilation. The simplest options are installed into basically a hole in the wall.
• z3t4 8y ago
  First check if existing ventilation works. In (old) apartments, leaky doors and windows works as intake, and air go out from toilets and kitchen ventilation. Hold a toilet paper tissue at the outtake in the toilet or kitchen, the air flow should be big enough so that the paper get stuck. If it doesn't - try opening the door or windows. If it helped to open the door, or window, you can install window ventilation, which is basically a hole with an adjustable opening. If opening the window doesn't help you need to move the air mechanically by installing a fan in the kitchen outtake and/or the toilet. A fan might solve the problem for you, but might push the air (and smell) into someone else's apartment ... so it's best to work with the rest of the house, and do a whole house solution, sometimes it's as easy as cleaning the ventilation channel, as birds love buildings nests in them because warm air make it cosy.
• distances 8y ago
  You probably have ventilation, but opening the windows is the ventilation procedure in large parts of the world. In lots of buildings even in Europe you simply do that every day, no matter if it's -20 C or +40 C. Massive waste of heat in the winter at least.