Home Maintenance for Dummies by James Carey & Morris Carey

Home Maintenance for Dummies by James Carey & Morris Carey

Author:James Carey & Morris Carey [Carey, James & Carey, Morris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: House & Home, Repair
ISBN: 9781118052679
Google: wmXHkQneqWMC
Amazon: 047043063X
Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 2009-10-26T00:00:00+00:00


If your furnace uses a standard 1-inch disposable filter, don’t bother buying fancy, ultra-high-efficient filters. The pleated kind is fine. The filter is tightly woven and won’t let large particles pass, and the pleats double the filtration area, resulting in less stress on the system blower. Unless your home is her-metically sealed, you never open a window or a door, and you’ve removed all inside allergy sources (which is extremely unlikely), those mega-filters don’t 188 Part III: Key Systems: Plumbing and HVAC

provide benefits commensurate with their significantly higher cost. And they may reduce airflow and cause the blower to strain to push air through their thicker, tighter filtering medium. Don’t believe us? Ask your serviceman. He’ll back us up on this.

Why do we like pleated filters better than the typical spun-fiberglass filters?

Because they actually work. You can see for yourself: Lay a standard fiberglass filter flat on a table, and shake some table salt onto it. If the filter allows salt to pass through (which it will), how can it snag a microscopic grain of pollen? Now, perform the same experiment using a pleated filter. Look mom, no salt! A pleated filter does add some resistance to airflow, but not enough to make a difference.



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