Healthier Places | Healthy Home Assessments, SF Bay Area

What we measure

Ten areas. More than fifty measures.

We screen the parts of your home that can affect your health — from the air you breathe to the water you drink. We start with the WELL for Residential standard, then go beyond it, adding healthy-home checks WELL doesn't cover, each with its own data-backed threshold. Every finding is marked on track, room to improve, or priority, so you know what's worth a closer look and what's looking good.

EssentialsThe first five

Air & thermal comfort

What's actually in the air at home, how well the rooms clear it, and whether they sit at a comfortable temperature and humidity.

Radon · CO₂ · PM2.5 · PM10 · formaldehyde · filtration · ventilation · temperature · relative humidity

Water

Your tap can differ from the city's report. We collect a sample and send it to a lab.

Lead · copper · chlorine · turbidity · pH · filters

Cleaning

Cleaning products and practices — what's under the sink, and how it actually gets used.

Products & ingredients · practices · HEPA vacuums · doormats & shoes-off · fragrance load

Kitchen materials

Cookware and kitchen materials only — the things that meet heat, food and water every day.

Cookware · food storage · prep surfaces · utensils

Safety

The everyday basics that are easy to let slide — and usually quick to put right.

Smoke & carbon monoxide detectors · fire extinguisher · first aid · emergency plan

CompleteEverything in Essentials, plus these five areas

Light

Bright days, dark nights. Most homes fail the night half.

Daylight · illuminance · spectrum · darkness at night

Sound

Noise disrupts sleep long before it feels loud.

Levels by room · sources · transmission

Nourishment

Whether your kitchen makes eating well easy or hard.

Cooking habits · produce · growing space

Mind

Nature views and less clutter measurably lower stress.

Nature views · clutter & storage · restorative space

Movement

Whether your home supports moving or fights it.

Ergonomics · active design

Pricing

Two packages. Published, not quoted.

Most homes are worth the full picture. Complete covers all ten areas — Essentials covers the five with the most direct health impact.

Essentials

$750

Up to 2,500 sq ft

The five areas with the most direct health impact: clean air and water, safety, and what you clean and cook with.

A two-hour visit from both of us — Lori Strazdas, MPH, WELL AP, and Alexia Niparko
Air & thermal comfort, water (lab-analyzed sample), cleaning, kitchen materials, and safety
A written report: your home health dashboard and a prioritized action plan

Book Essentials

Complete Recommended

$1,250

Up to 2,500 sq ft

The whole home, and the guidance to act on it. Every area we measure, plus deeper testing where your readings call for it.

A three-hour visit from both of us, covering everything in Essentials
Plus light, sound, nourishment, mind and movement
Deeper testing where your readings warrant it
An expanded report, named product recommendations, and a thirty-minute call

Essentials plus the product list on its own is $945. Complete adds five more areas, deeper testing and a review call for $305 more.

Book Complete

Side by side

Comparison of the Essentials and Complete packages
	Essentials$750	Complete$1,250Recommended
Time on site	Two hours	Three hours
Areas covered	Five	All ten
Air & thermal comfort, water, cleaning, kitchen materials, safety	Included	Included
Light, sound, nourishment, mind, movement	Not included	Included
Home health dashboard & prioritized action plan	Included	Included
Deeper testing where your readings call for it	Not included	Included
Named product recommendations	$195 add-on	Included
Thirty-minute review call	Not included	Included
Both of us on site	Included	Included

Optional add-ons

More depth, either package

Optional, on either package.

Larger homesOver 2,500 sq ft, per additional 1,000

$150
Comprehensive water screenMetals, VOCs, disinfection byproducts

$395
Lead paint & dust screeningFor homes built before 1978

$195
Sleep environment studyOvernight sound, light, and air logging

$250
Nursery intensiveFor expecting parents and young children

$150
Registry reviewBaby, wedding or new-home registries, line by line

$95
Personal product recommendationsA named shopping list — included in Complete

$195
Verification retestWe measure progress on the changes you've made

$395
Workplace assessmentOffices, studios, and facilities

from $1,500

Travel is included across the greater San Francisco Bay Area — no surcharge. We don't perform remediation or sell equipment, so we have no stake in what the measurements show. Product recommendations are always optional, and some product links may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

The process

Four steps, start to finish.

Step 01

Tell us about your home

A short form, so the visit targets what's actually worrying you.

Step 02

We come and measure

Two to three hours on site, both of us. Follow along if you like.

Step 03

You get the report

A dashboard of every area, each reading against its threshold, and a prioritized plan.

Step 04Complete only

We talk it through

Thirty minutes, so the report doesn't go unopened.

Who books this

Most people call after one of these.

You've lived here for years and have never actually checked
You're moving into a new home
You're expecting, or have young children at home
Someone has allergies, asthma, headaches, or sleeps badly for no clear reason
You renovated and something still smells like it
You've bought filters and purifiers for years without measuring whether they worked

Who you'll work with

Run by Alexia, measured with Lori.

Two mothers coming at this from opposite sides — one who spent twenty years measuring buildings, one who spent a decade inside the industry that fills them.

Alexia Niparko

Healthier Places · products, materials & recommendations

Alexia runs Healthier Places. A decade inside consumer products — grocery storefronts, her own organic food company, and one of the country's biggest household-goods companies — where she learned how little a label tells you. Then came two kids, both under five. She handles what you do about the findings: what to buy, what to skip, and where the marketing is doing the work. She writes Little Green Steps.

Lori Strazdas, MPH, WELL AP

WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP) · assessment & measurement partner

Lori is our assessment and measurement partner, and a WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP) — an environmental scientist and public health professional, twenty years into making indoor spaces healthier — including the one she raised two high-schoolers in. She runs the measurement on every visit: the instruments, the thresholds, the readings. She also practices as StrazDwell.

Questions

The things people ask first.

What's the difference between Essentials and Complete?

Essentials covers five areas: air and thermal comfort, water with a lab-analyzed sample, cleaning, kitchen materials, and safety. Complete covers all ten, adding light, sound, nourishment, mind and movement — with a longer visit, deeper testing, named product recommendations, and a thirty-minute call. Both include a written report.

What if everything looks fine?

That's a good outcome, and a common one. A screening that comes back clear is worth having — you stop wondering about the air, the water, and the things you can't see for yourself. You get the same full report either way, so you can see exactly what was measured and where each reading landed.

Do I need to prepare anything?

No — and please don't clean or change anything. We measure your home as you actually live in it.

Can this replace a home purchase inspection?

No. A purchase inspection covers the building's condition for the sale — roof, foundation, structure, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, pests. We cover none of that. We measure the conditions inside the home that affect the people living in it.

Do book us before you buy if you want to know what you're moving into — just alongside a purchase inspection, not instead of one. And where something needs a specialist, like asbestos or a full mold investigation, we'll point you to one.

What about lead, or mold?

Lead in your drinking water is included; lead in paint and dust is an add-on. Either way it's a screening, not a certified inspection — those are regulated, and we'll refer you if you need one. We check for visible mold and the humidity that causes it; a full investigation needs a specialist.

Do you sell the products you recommend?

No. We don't sell equipment or perform remediation, so we've no reason to find a problem. Some product links may earn us a small commission at no cost to you; it never changes what we measure or report.

What areas do you serve?

The greater San Francisco Bay Area. If you're further out, email us — we may be able to arrange travel, or point you to someone good near you.

Healthier Places is a service of Green House Ventures, LLC, Berkeley, California. Healthy home assessments are informational environmental assessments intended to help you make decisions about your home. They are not medical advice and are not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. They are not a home inspection, a code-compliance inspection, a real-estate disclosure, a certified lead inspection or risk assessment under EPA or California regulations, or a mold investigation. Measurements reflect conditions at the time of the visit. Where a finding suggests certified or licensed work is warranted, we will say so and refer you accordingly. Consult a licensed physician about health symptoms. Some product links in our reports and on this site may earn us a commission at no additional cost to you; this does not affect our measurements, findings, or recommendations. Assessments reference applicable criteria and thresholds from the WELL for Residential Standard as benchmarks; WELL AP is a credential held by the individual practitioner, and referencing the standard does not indicate that any property is WELL Certified. Healthier Places is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by the International WELL Building Institute.

Your home should be a haven. Is it healthy?