As people age, they tend to develop allergies or reduced tolerance to chemicals that they probably didn’t even notice when they were younger. My wife is one of those people, and that has made me very careful about performing certain tasks around her, as well as ensuring that the contractors and repair people we employ take those precautions, too.
Here are a couple of examples. We ordered cabinets for one of our kitchen renovation projects. The boxes containing the cabinets arrived and sat in a pile in the foyer for a few days. My wife became ill about the same time. I moved the boxes to an area of the basement in which the floor joists had been insulated. My wife got well almost immediately. We assume that some chemical in the cardboard boxes was making her sick.
A few years later, we hired some painters to take care of a hallway so I could get the house on the market to sell. The painters had been relatively sloppy, and my wife found a can of latex paint remover and began using it on the droppings of the floor. In about a half-hour, the odor of the chemical had overwhelmed her, and she almost ended up in the emergency room.
You never know.
Our new house has a whole-house air cleaner, which also makes it virtually dust-free. The filter is changed every three months. The air cleaner seems to have made life for everyone with allergies in my house more tolerable and less dependent on antihistamines.
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