344. Dirt on the Blower Wheel
28 Jan 2026 · 2 min
Derek Cole explains why a dirty blower wheel cuts airflow in your HVAC system and how to clean it. A clogged wheel forces your system to work harder and costs more to run. Removing and cleaning the wheel takes about an hour.
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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.
When you have a dirty unit, a.
Dirty indoor blower motor and a dirty wheel.
See what happens when you have the blower motor which pushes the air in the house, right? So it pushes the air in the house and uses what's called, we call a squirrel cage, but it's a blower wheel that actually pushes the air in. So if you look at the blower wheel, it's kind of like a cup, it has all these little fins on it all around the circle and it's taking air and it's throwing it and it's pushing it. Alright, it's pushing it in the house. So when that becomes dirty, when you have a dirt and a dust build up on it, it becomes flattened. So now you're trying to push air like this, obviously not as effective as the cup, right? So one thing to look at is make sure your unit is clean. We go to quite a few systems with our blower wheel needs to be taken out, taken outside, cleaned, sprayed down, dried off and then put back inside. Because it is so much of a cake of dirt and dust on that blow wheel that it's going from a cup to straight and therefore it's not catching the air, it's not throwing it back in the house.
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