Day two of the wall washing/dejunking/clean everything madness.I am amazed that our home , heated by natural gas, is COATED in an oily, dirty,black dust and crud film. I have lived in places that were heated with an oil burning furnace in my lifetime, and after a season of heating in this fashion it becomes essential to do a big spring cleaning/
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Be alarmed. Be very alarmed. The surprising thing isn't that your home is in this state from burning natural gas. It's that you're home is in that state from burning natural gas and you're still alive. I'd really, strongly suspect that this grime is coming from something other than you furnace. Has someone been burning candles? Cooking with the stove turned up a bit too high? Deep-frying? Could it be possible it's pollution from outside? What's your furnace air filter look like? If the furnace is in the basement, how clean is your basement?
See, in a gas furnace, all the emissions go through the heat exchanger (something like a radiator) and up the flue pipe to the outdoors. None of the emissions ever enter the house itself, because the CO and CO2 would poison you just as surely as if you were piping car exhaust into your living room ( ... )
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