| Furnace filters; not one of the main things on | | | | than the air outside (the EPA says it is), and you |
| your mind are they? It might not be something | | | | spend more time indoors, doesn't it make you |
| you think about everyday, but you do need to be | | | | think that you would want to clean that air? |
| aware of what they do and why you need to | | | | Think about this. When the kids go back to school |
| keep up with them. | | | | they are surrounded by other kids. They are also |
| The most obvious reason you need to keep up | | | | surrounded by viruses and other airborne illnesses. |
| with your furnace filters is to maintain your | | | | Did you know that proper furnace filters can help |
| heating/cooling unit. If you have a filter that | | | | remove viruses from the air? Don't you hate it |
| doesn't properly fit, you are letting a lot of dust | | | | when some one in the family gets a stomach |
| get into your unit. This is a bad thing, unless you | | | | bug, then every one gets it? Air filters can help |
| want to fork out $8,000 on a new central air unit. | | | | with this. |
| The simplest, most cost effective way to protect | | | | More commonly, we run into allergies. Kids have |
| your unit and increase its life is to install the right | | | | them, adults have them, and even dogs have |
| size air filter in your furnace and replace it as it | | | | them. Allergens are floating around the air we |
| gets dirty. Doing this keeps the unit and the | | | | breathe, especially in closed spaces such as your |
| motor clean and running smoothly. | | | | home. A good MERV rated furnace filter will filter |
| Beyond problems with your HVAC are problems | | | | out dust, pet dander, dust mites, viruses, smoke, |
| with health. As fall approaches, and winter raises | | | | and pollen 60 times better than a fiberglass filter. |
| its head over the horizon, we start running our | | | | Changing your furnace filters is more of an air |
| furnaces. It just so happens that at that very | | | | quality thing than it is anything else. You can |
| time kids go back to school, and people spend | | | | greatly increase the quality of life that you and |
| more time indoors. | | | | your family have by simply changing an air filter. |
| If the air in your home is six times more polluted | | | | Very few things in life are as simple as that. |