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Johns Hopkins University Press), including My House is
Killing Me: The Home Guide for Families with Allergies
and Asthma. Jeff is a nationally recognized speaker at
annual conferences for the IAQ Association and the Maine
IAQ Council, among others. He is a Council-Certified Mi-
crobial Consultant (ACAC) and a Certified IAQ Profession-
al (AEE), and is licensed in the NH and FL as a mold in-
spector/assessor. Jeff holds a B.A. from Columbia College
(chemistry) and an M.A. from Harvard University (organic
chemistry). See www.mayindoorair.com for details about
Jeff's company's services, and www.myhouseiskillingme.
com for more information about Jeff's publications and
work. You can contact Jeff at jeff@mayindoorair.com or
call 978-649-1055.
Don't introduce unnecessary amounts of moisture into
your attached garage. In the summer, dehumidify your ga-
rage during particularly humid weather; just keep the RH
under 70%. In the winter, wipe snow off your car, including
kicking snow off the tires, before driving the vehicle into the
garage. If snow still falls onto the garage floor, sweep it to
the exterior before it melts, or sweep the water out of the
garage after the snow has melted.
Take a walk in the rain. When gutters and downspouts
at the exterior of your home overflow, roof water can col-
lect next to your foundation and then find its way into your
basement. Next time it rains hard, grab your rain coat and
galoshes, and splash around the exterior of your home
to check for unwelcome streams or even waterfalls down
the siding. If you see such flows down the exterior of your
home, have your gutter system cleaned and repaired as
needed. Such flows inevitably lead to rot!
A gutter garden!. May Indoor Air Investigations LLC
Founder and Principal Scientist of May Indoor Air Inves-
tigations LLC in Tyngsborough, MA (www.mayindoorair.
com), Jeffrey C. May combines his education as an
organic chemist and his over twenty-five years of expe-
rience investigating building problems to specialize in
indoor air quality (IAQ). He is a former Adjunct Faculty
Member in the Department of Work Environment at Uni-
versity of Massachusetts Lowell, and is author or co-au-
thor of four books on indoor air quality (published by The
For further advice on
maintaining a home
with healthier indoor
air, refer to our book
Jeff May's Healthy
Home Tips, available
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