Why Does My AC Air Filter Have to Be Changed? - Comfort Zone Heating & Cooling
May 12, 2015

When it comes to handling your home’s air conditioning system, maintenance, repair, replacement and installation should always be left to an expert. But there is one thing that you, as the homeowner, should do, and that’s change your air filter every three months. If you need help finding your air filter, or with changing it, our experts are happy to help you. Once you know where your air filter is, and how to change it, it’s important to stay on schedule with it because a number of problems can develop from a dirty air filter, as we’ll outline below.

The Air Filter’s Job

Every forced air system comes with a standard filter, and the job of this filter is to keep excess dirt and dust out of your system, as well as stop debris from lodging anywhere in the system. The standard filter does not have the job of improving your indoor air.

Problems Caused by Dirty Air Filters

So what can happen when you allow your system to operate with a clogged, dirty air filter? Here are some examples:

  • Decrease in energy efficiency – your air conditioner needs a specific level of air flow in order to run properly and a clogged air filter can seriously restrict the air flow; this puts strain on your system to perform, which can cause it to use more energy.
  • Decrease in indoor air quality – once your air filter can’t capture the dirt and dust entering your system, these particles will start to blow directly into your home’s living spaces, causing a significant increase in the indoor air.
  • Icing – good air flow is critical to your AC system’s heat release/cooling process, so when the air flow becomes imbalanced, so does its ability to release the warm air in the system. The result is that the warm parts of the system got too hot and the cool parts become too cold; this creates condensation which then quickly freezes on the cold parts.

Our experts can show you how to change your air filter and give you tips so that you don’t forget to do it. Just give us a call today and let us help you keep your AC system in Ball Ground, GA, healthy this summer!

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