RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
We have aprilaire and we change them every six months. This is a great system and really captures a lot of the dust and dander.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
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By jeff house (Guest Post)
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I do heat & air for a living. I've always been told, change the filter every month.
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By Jeffrey P (Guest Post)
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Did a bunch of research online and monthly is the consensus. I have a HVAC system and I use the Flanders PrecisionAire 14x30x1 filters. A case of 12 covers you for the year and it's $20.00 at Ace Hardware online. Delivered to your door!! That's a small price to pay for cleaner & healthier air in your home, especially if you have kids like me.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
I change mine every month.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
I know this "question" is fairly old but, I subscribe to Consumer Reports and there was a small article in the Dec/07 addition that had ratings for furnace filters. In "their" ratings, they listed the cheapy filters, do next to nothing for filtering. The reusuable filters, (pricey) clean even less than the cheapies. In their tests, the best cleaning filter is made by 3M. It filters extremely well and doesn't restrict airflow (In their words) I loaned my Dad that magazine, so I'm sorry that I don't know the exact name of that 3M filter. I do remember it was around $12 dollars though and they recommend changing the filter once a month. So it could get quite expensive for that particular filter. I still use the Ace Hardware cheepies though and DO change them monthly! Hope this helps!! Steve, Blair, Nebr
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
I agree with the change the filter every month crowd.
Keep your system clean.
Here's a hint.
I just watch Ace hardware. In the Spring they put filters on sale so I just buy a box or two of filters then.
With no central AC we used seven or eight a year here in Northern Lower Michigan.
Now I have just went back to full time wood heat and that furnace just sit there waiting. It doesn't know when it will ever get to run again. 8>))
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
I have 4" filters and they are recommended to be changed every 90 days. I always write the date on the front of the filter when installing it so I know when it's due to be replaced.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
I work for a heating and air conditioning company and the honest answer is, it depends on what type of filter you have. If you are talking about 1" temporary filters, then yes those should be changed monthly. I have a high efficiency 4" filter and those don't need to be changed but once every 6 months. Hope this helps!
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
We have always changed ours every month, all 12 months. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but our system is fairly old and when we had a heating/cooling guy in this summer for a problem, he said our system was in great shape. I know some of our neighbors have replaced theirs several years ago.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
My husband looks at it monthly and if it needs changing, he replaces it. Some months are full of dust and others, not.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
Great tip!!!!!
Spray with Endust first. That catches more dust!!!!
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If you want to waste money on heating your home and save money on filters, listen to him.
Filters are on sale at Busy Beaver for $.49 .
I get ours changed once a month for air conditioning and heating.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
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By Granylou98 (Guest Post)
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We have always changed our furnace at least once a month for the past 38 years we have lived here. The furnace runs a lot cleaner and I don't have to dust as often!
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
My son works for the School district in Los Angeles ,as a Heating and Air conditioning repairman,keeps their furnaces working for the children and he changes theirs every month because he says it helps to keep down the dust,lint, and hair also helps with allergens.we live in Arizona and it's really dusty here so we bought the kind you wash out and change them every month.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
I have always heard to change the filter monthly. Filters aren't really that expensive when you consider that a clean filter makes the furnace run more efficiently
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
My brother in law is living with us now. He works for a heating/cooling company. He says every month! We have dogs and a cat so it really does help. If you pull the filter out and it is dirty change it!
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
Monthly.
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Our furnace technician recommends changing the filters every month. We try to change ours at least every 2 months.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
We change ours lots. We have 2 indoor dogs.
We just like to make sure it is clean. We buy the
cheapies and chnage every month or every other month at least.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
We change our filters every month, we have two dogs and this seems to work best for us and it also keeps down the amount of dust I see on the furniture.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
Get the cleanable, reusable kind and hose them off thoroughly once a month. Reuse & recycle whenever possible.
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
Filters should be changed every 3 months at a minimum. More frequent filter changes are needed more for AC than heat.
Posted on 10/11/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
I've been told that you should change your furnace filter every three months and possibly more if your area is extremely dusty. For us, I get the very cheap kind and change them every three months. Some of the better filters are reuseable, but have you seen how dirty they get? Good luck!
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RE: How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filter?
You are correct. The cleaner your air filter is kept the more efficient you furnace will run. Thus you save money on heating and repair bills. If you have natural gas you will want to save every penny you can this coming winter with prices expected to be 70% more than last year.
Posted on 10/11/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
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