New air filters can save you lots of money on your heating and cooling bills if you would just give them the chance.
Up until fairly recently, I had no idea that air filters were quite so important to the health and efficiency of your HVAC system.
Then I had my yearly air conditioning tune up done by my local HVAC company and that’s when I learned a lot of stuff from the HVAC technician who did it for me. He came to do the regular tune-up on the A/C since summer is just starting, but then he started talking to me about the health of our HVAC system. He was pretty nice about the whole thing, but I was still just a little bit embarrassed over the fact that he pointed out that the air filter in the A/C unit was super dirty. He asked me when I had last changed it and the terrible answer that I had to give him was that I hadn’t ever changed it! He looked a little bit shocked when he realized that the last time my air filter was changed was when he had been there the previous year to do the A/C tune-up last summer! I just don’t think about the air filters, I guess. Anyway, he told me that if I would change the air filter every couple of months from now on, I would end up saving money on my heating and cooling bills from now on. Not only that, but I will have better indoor air quality in my house!