Derek Cole explains why you should check and change your HVAC air filters every 30 days. Dirty filters reduce efficiency by 5 to 15 percent and hurt your home's air quality. He's promoting a free five-day Healthy Home Challenge.
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Foreign. I'm Derek Cole, host of the Derek Cole Podcast and we believe in taking the time to explain how things work for your air at home or your business. And we also believe you deserve clean air in that home. And that is why we founded the Healthy Home Challenge. It's a five day online video series with daily emails, worksheets and even quick action steps you can take to protect you, your family and your co workers. If you haven't joined us yet, you can sign up. It's free to free five day access. You can go to Simmons One Hour Comm. You'll see a link to learn more about indoor air. You've probably known for a while that you need better indoor air at home or at work. After all, we spend 90% of our time indoors these days. Your breakthrough awaits at Simmons One Hour Comm. Now let's get into today's episode. Please listen closely and maybe even take some notes so you can remember these insights of home comfort and energy savings. And share this episode with three of your friends because we all need to share better ways to be more comfortable at home. Be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram Derek Mcole so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening and let's begin. Foreign.
Something very, very important. According to Energy Star, it's one of the things you can do to affect your energy usage. Air filter. Every 30 days, check and change your filter. Now. Derek My filter, I check every 30 days. It's never dirty. I never have to change it.
Okay, if you never have to change.
Your air filter, that is a problem as well, because it should be getting airflow, therefore it should be getting dirty and it should need to be replaced. If you're not having a dirty air filter, you have a problem. There is a duct problem somewhere because the air that air conditioner needs is getting back to it. It's getting to it somewhere. It's not coming through the filter though. So now you have, depending on where your unit is, crawl space, air, attic air, some kind of air is getting to it unfiltered, which is also brom because according to the Same Energy Star, 1 20th. 1 20th. Think about 1 20th of an inch. 1 20th of an inch. So basically you take an inch, slice it up 20 times. That's 1/20. 1/20 of an inch of dirt can affect your efficiency. 5 to 15%. It's crazy.
So change. Check your air filter. Okay. I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Derek Cole Podcast. Tell some people about this episode. It's on each of us really to spread the better ways to be healthier and more comfortable in our homes and workspaces. I'm asking you to be the dealer of positive and life changing messages in your circle of influence. Take a screenshot right now and share the screenshot and the link to this episode with three of your friends today. Share on social media use the hashtag Healthy Home. That's Healthy Home. We are always giving away shout outs prizes to our community. If you would like to help me personally then please rate and review on Apple podcast give us some stars. Leave a review because that stuff actually does help and I read all the comments. So my last thought for today please remember you deserve better air at home and and greater comfort at home. Don't settle for being uncomfortable for your heating air every single month. We are so thankful for having you here in our community and be sure to go deeper with us@simmons1hour.com.
