In order to maintain good air quality inside your home, change your air filter regularly. Most information that you need to know about your air filter are printed on the filter itself. Good folks at Your Filter Connection can help you with your filter questions.
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Q. Why do I have to change my residential air filter?
A dirty air filter can ruin your HVAC unit by restricting air flow which will put additional pressure on your system making it to collapse. A dirty filter will require your HVAC unit’s fan to work extra consuming more power and costing you more money. A dirty filter can lessen the effectiveness of your unit and leaving dirty air inside your home. Also, dirt wrapped in the residential air filter can contaminate your duct work with more pollutants. Inefficient HVAC system can produce more carbon leaving you vulnerable. In order to get better benefits and save money change your furnace filter regularly.
Q. Where is my filter located?
First understand how your air flow works. Your system pull air inside and sends it through duct system to the heating or cooling unit and blow back heated or cooled air back into the house through duct work. So obvious location for your furnace filter is where the air intake point and air return point. These points should have hinged cover that you can easily loosen and remove your old filter.
Q. Could I use any size residential air filter?
The answer is no. Each unit comes with a specific filter. Most common theme for filters is the thickness; which is usually one inch. Other dimensions could vary. All filter dimensions including filtrete filter are printed visibly on the filter itself.
Q. How often should I change my filter?
Few things affect the life of your filter. Your local weather conditions impact your filter. Wet weather promotes biological contaminants inside your home. Pets generate pet dander that affects the life of your filter including filtrete filter. Also, the types of filter you are using determine the life of the filter. As a rule of thumb, if you have pets at home and you are suffering from allergies, you may consider changing your filter in 30 to 45 days. If you live in the country and no pets at home, you may change your filter once every six to 12 months. If you live in the suburb with no pets, consider changing your air filter every 90 days. Your Filter Connection can help you with filter related questions.