Building Healthy Homes

You have a choice –  live in a home that is built to be healthy for your family or live in a home that may be harmful to your health. If your choice is a healthy home, PRK Williams Building Group sets the standard in building healthy homes.

Healthy Homes

We believe everyone should feel confident living in a home where they can breathe the purest air, drink the cleanest water and touch the cleanest and safest surfaces. We also incorporate specialized design features and recommend healthy home best practices to optimize the improvements made to your home. PRK Williams Building Group’s healthy home solutions are appropriate for new home construction and existing home modifications.

Healthy Home Certification

Healthy Home Certified Platinum

PRK Williams Building Group leaves nothing to chance! Therefore, we partner with Healthy Spaces, who can certify your home as healthy at the silver, bronze, gold or platinum level. Certification helps ensure a fresh clean smell to your new home and may increase resale value if you choose to sell your home.

Purified Air

We believe everyone should breathe clean, purified air 24/7. To purify your indoor air, it is important to reduce or remove pathogens, gases and particulates.

  • Pathogens – the stuff that makes you sick
    • Bacteria (MRSA, E.Coli, Staph, Strep, etc.)
    • Viruses (Norovirus, SARS, Avian Flue, SAR-COV-2, etc.)
    • Mold spores (causes allergic reactions, asthma episodes, infections, sinus congestion, problems, etc.)
  • Gases – the stuff that you smell
    • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)  chemicals introduced to your home (new flooring, cleaning products, etc.)
    • Odors (smoke, pet, food, perfumes, garbage, etc.)
  • Particulates – the stuff that makes you sneeze
    • Dust
    • Dander
    • pollen

PRK Williams Building Group’s indoor air quality solution to reduce or remove pathogens, gases and particulates from your home is to target four contributing factors:

Ventilation

Leave your fan on to continuously circulate the air.

Air Purification

We utilize the SONA Air Purification System with DBD ionization, which treats your air with an ionization system at the molecular level. The SONA Air Purification System, offered by Healthy Spaces, is installed directly into a home’s duct work. The SONA Air Purification System’s ionization plasma process brings nature’s purification indoors by creating ions found naturally in the air. The ions are supplied into the home, inactivating pathogens and viruses and reducing particulates. The SONA Air Purification System is a whole home solution. If you can see your duct work, you can install an air purification system in your home.

SONA Air Purification System - Duct installation illustration
SONA Air Purification System -DUCTY H interior view

Humidity Control

Keep your home’s humidity at an optimum level – sweet spot is 40-60%.

Filtration

Use a Merv 13 filter to capture dander and smells. Change the filter often, as the air purification system will help fill the filter, faster.

Clean Drinking Water

Purified Water System

To enjoy the purest drinking water possible, PRK Williams Building Group recommends a reverse osmosis (RO) water system; a multilevel filter to purify water. This system helps eliminate minerals and impurities from water.

Safe Surfaces and Building Materials

hard surface flooring
solid surface countertops

Creating and maintaining a healthy, purified indoor environment starts with the building materials. Therefore, it is very important to ensure your builder is using the healthiest materials possible. Ensure that your builder is not using low-grade, low-cost building materials that can release dangerous amounts of toxins in the air, such as formaldehyde, which is a known carcinogen. Formaldehyde can continue to be released for 2-4 years. That’s a very long time to be breathing in toxic fumes! PRK Williams Building Group recommends the highest quality materials for your home. 

  • low VOC paints
  • smooth, non porous countertops
  • hard surface flooring
  • motion activated touchless faucets

Specialized Design

Having the right design allows for ease of movement, comfort and peace of mind that your home is ready for a storm event or even the next flu season. PRK Williams Building Group recommends several design options to improve the safety, accessibility and health of your home. 

  • open spaces
  • universal design
  • age in place
  • wide doorways
  • wide hallways
  • large bathroom turnaround space
  • perimeter flashing, enhanced foundation seal
  • whole home central vac
  • sanitation room 
  • central vacuum system – exhaust removed from back of home rather than garage
  • sanitation room – safe room for bad weather
  • zero entry, no steps

Best Practices and Procedures

Maintaining a healthy home is necessary to ensure the ongoing health of your indoor spaces. Below are recommended tips to ensure your air is being continuously purified and kept free from harmful pathogens, allergens and other toxins. We all want to keep breathing in healthy air inside our home! 

  • establish regular cleaning schedule
  • vacuum regularly 
  • replace filters frequently 
  • monitor air quality 
  • install advanced air purification

Contact PRK Williams Buiding Group to build your healthy home!