I spent half a day on Christmas dusting and vaccuming. It occured to me that the filters hadn't been changed since maybe a year ago. I realized it when I saw just how dusty the place gets very quickly.
Oops.
Its recommended that filters are changed every three months. If you have not done it before, they're really cheap (usually around a dollar a piece) and will help you have a cleaner environment. The dumber part in my case... is that Ridgepointe provides replacements for free. I just have to go to the office to request new ones.
Hopefully it'll get dusty in here a little more slowly now.
UPDATE - 12/30 at 2 a.m.: One of the problems the heat/air conditioning has had for about a year is a random and rather loud rattling. I discovered when I changed the filters that there is a little metal tube that had wiring inside of it, and it was positioned in a way that it rested on one of the filters. A little screwdriver magic to reposition it and the unit hasn't rattled the rest of the day. I'm a freakin' genius.
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| Clean furnace filters |
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| Dirty furnace filters These stopped trapping new dust a long long time ago... in a galaxy far far, away. |