How to Maintain Your Furnace Filter
Changing your furnace filter needn’t be a daunting and worrying prospect. It’s a simple task that only takes a few short minutes to accomplish. Your furnace filter is a vitally important piece of equipment that protects the health of your family, cleans the air and helps your furnace run at its optimum efficiency levels.
Make checking your furnace air filter a part of your monthly routine. Many people still utilise disposable filters despite the fact reusable ones have many benefits over the older variety. They’re far cheaper, are easy toreplace and clean, can be reused, will save you a great deal of money over their lifetime, plus as an added benefit they’re far greener and have less impact on our environment.
Now that you can see the need of changing your furnace filter when you should, and the benefits of using a reusable filter as opposed to the disposable fiberglass filters, I will run through the quick and easy 3 step method of changing your old filter out for a new one.
Number one – cut the juice! Never work on any electronic or gas powered appliance without first disconnecting the power and fuel sources. You don’t want your first furnace filter maintenance job to be your last.
A filter that blocks light when held up to a window should be changed. If the case is the former, put it back in, reconnect the filter, lock up the furnace and switch the power back on. Otherwise, replace or clean followed by the same process. I cannot stress enough how important it is to check furnace filters on a regular basis.
If you replace the old filter with a new one make sure to reinsert the exact same filter. If you’re reinserting the old one that you cleaned through you must ensure its dried right through. If you place a wet filter in the furnace it’ll attract more dust and dirt and require changing again in a fraction of the usual time.
That’s all there is to it. 3 simple steps, ten minutes tops. Relax and enjoy the warmth.
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