Derek Cole explains why your heating smells musty when you switch from AC. Condensate builds up on coils and in drain lines over summer, and microbial growth can develop. The smell usually clears after a cycle or two, but if it persists, you need professional maintenance or UV treatment.
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Foreign. Welcome back to Winter Weather. It's around here anyway, it's been a couple days into the weekend of, you know, being warm, really warm weather for December. And you could be like me. I mean, a few nights we had to turn our AC on, get it down to 68 degrees, which is, which is where we like it at bedtime. So we had to turn the AC on. But now we're back to heating. We're back in the heating mode. Our thermostat is set. I keep my own auto, but the, the heat is the one that comes on and not the AC because of the temperatures. But just know that the first time you have the heat come on after you've used the ac, you're going to have that kind of a musty odor, musty smell coming out of the vents. And that's really because AC is about dehumidifying. And a product of dehumidifying is what? Water, moisture. So that water obviously gets on the coal and the drain pan and the drain line. So when you switch back over to heating mode, you are not dehumidifying, you're in heating mode. So the first time you switch it back over, you're gonna have that musty kind of odor coming out of the system, but it's something that's gonna last one maybe, maybe the first one or two times you turn back to eating, it really shouldn't last much longer than that. Really after the first time it shouldn't come back. But if you continuously have that musty odor smell with the heat, then you need to get a professional out there and see what's going on. It could be something as simple as maintenance because you could be having a drainage problem where water is sitting in the drain pan instead of going out the drain line or something might be on that coal as far as a fungus or some kind of bacteria causing the odor. And you might need a maintenance or a UV on that system to start controlling that situation. But just know that if you use your AC and you're switching back to heating that you're going to have that smell. If you have it more than a few times when you start, then you have a another problem, a different set of problems that needs to be addressed and needs to be looked at. But welcome back. Welcome back to the winter weather. Frankly, I'm glad to see it back.
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