Your air monitor says the VOC level is high — it can't tell you why. A laboratory badge names twenty-five solvents individually, so a number becomes a chemical, and a chemical points at a source.
A consumer air monitor gives one TVOC number, and the health significance of that number depends completely on which compounds make it up — which the monitor cannot say.
This is the first measurement to take when a room smells wrong, when flooring or cabinetry has just gone in, or when one person in the household reacts to one particular space. It's a starting point by design — if formaldehyde is the concern, the Standard kit adds the badge that measures it.
Use the included room-selection guide to pick the space you actually want to know about. Open the sealed pouch, write down the exact start time, and place the badge at breathing height (3–5 ft), in the middle of the room, away from vents, windows, purifiers and direct sun — nothing draped over it.
Leave it undisturbed for 8 to 12 hours while living normally. Seal it back in the pouch, record the end time, and post it the same day. Return within 14 days of use.
Activated charcoal behind a diffusion barrier collects organic vapour at a characterised rate. At the laboratory the charcoal is solvent-desorbed and run on gas chromatography with mass spectrometry, which separates the mixture and identifies each compound by its fragmentation pattern.
Each compound is reported as its own time-weighted average concentration for the period recorded. That speciation — naming each chemical instead of summing them — is the entire point of the product.
Independently operated, with no ties to filter, purifier or remediation companies. Every badge is analyzed by an accredited laboratory under a named, validated method, with a documented chain of custody — and your data is yours.
Order today, expose the badge at home, and mail it back in the prepaid mailer.
For informational & screening purposes. This is a laboratory analysis of the air sampled — not a medical diagnosis.