Just learned this tip from our furnace guy: to help you remember to change your furnace air filter every month, change it when you pay your electric/gas bill.
I don't think it's a hazard the way not cleaning out dryer lint is a hazard. I do know that as the filter traps more dust, the furnace has to work harder to pull air in, increasing heating bills. And the other thing I learned today is that if you don't have good filters, the blower motor inside gets covered with dust (much like regular fans and computer fans do), which can eventually lead to failure of the blower.
Oh yikes, sounds like you may have learned the hard way? This makes a lot of sense, something I should check into with my roommate/landlord and my bf's house.
Kind of off-tangent, a tree root got into the pipes, no plumbing where I live right now! We found out what it was when water started coming up from the basement shower & toilet when someone would take a shower upstairs. Argh.
Oh no, never had any disasters, just another nugget of information I got from the furnace guy.
Funny you should mention the tree root thing, we have some water coming up from our basement drain, mostly when all the water from the washer drains out. So we have to get a plumber in to check it. Hoping it's not a tree root, because it seems a strange time of year to get that (but maybe the trees aren't as dormant as I think they are), but we'll see. Really hoping it's a simple blockage; no actual smelly sewage coming up, so I take that as a good sign.
The cool thing I learned about from our plumber guy a couple years ago was how they do the roto rooter thing. Basically it's like a powerful water jet, and the end of it is a set of blades powered by that jet, so you cut out any blockages and flush them down at the same time. Super expensive equipment, so that's why the service can cost a bit.
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Kind of off-tangent, a tree root got into the pipes, no plumbing where I live right now! We found out what it was when water started coming up from the basement shower & toilet when someone would take a shower upstairs. Argh.
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Funny you should mention the tree root thing, we have some water coming up from our basement drain, mostly when all the water from the washer drains out. So we have to get a plumber in to check it. Hoping it's not a tree root, because it seems a strange time of year to get that (but maybe the trees aren't as dormant as I think they are), but we'll see. Really hoping it's a simple blockage; no actual smelly sewage coming up, so I take that as a good sign.
The cool thing I learned about from our plumber guy a couple years ago was how they do the roto rooter thing. Basically it's like a powerful water jet, and the end of it is a set of blades powered by that jet, so you cut out any blockages and flush them down at the same time. Super expensive equipment, so that's why the service can cost a bit.
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