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Hi Sue, your insight is really helpful with specific strategies...I had a few questions: do you have one of those portable HEPA filters in the rooms of your home or do you just use good filters in the HVAC system? Also regarding the filtered water, do you have one of those whole house filters or just the filter on the refrig? Do you use a Brita water filter as well? I love gardening but i'll have to use more help with digging but do you think i can still get out there for some gardening with a N95?

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Hmm...
Let's start with my favorite - gardening. I wear a mask, make sure the soil is moist to limit airborne dust and try to wear long sleeves/pants (not perfect at that yet, but have gotten some super lightweight wicking clothes) - and I have learned to shower and wash the clothes afterwards. I stay out of the garden when digging is going on or mulch is being laid.
In one home, we have HEPA on the HVAC, but I like open windows so we also have portable units. In our tiny house we have a portable HEPA system & clean the a/c filter.
In one home we have a whole house water filter (it's a pain with the tiny pores so has a prefilter on it.) The water has tested twice negative for NTM, so we might quit. In the other house we have a well - no NTM, but use a filter for tast & I change it every 2 months. I truly don't worry much about it as I have no GERD, though I do drink bottled spring water when we travel.

We have a hot tub in our tiny house community which I completely avoid. But I do use the community salt water swimming pool (keeping my face out of the water.)

One thing I seldom see mentioned, but that we do, is keep our reuseable water vessels - pitchers, glasses, mugs & covers, sippers, etc - scrupulously clean - soaked then washed daily in hot soapy water & scrubbed vigorously with bottle brushes of various sizes to keep any biofilm from forming. At the big house, I scrub before putting in the dishwasher.

I would like to hear others here can share their own strategies, but this is what works for me.
Sue