Podcast episode '460. Allergy Filters' (Derek Cole Podcast). Host Derek Cole and a guest (Speaker B, a technician) discuss home air quality and HVAC filtration: the inadequacy of very cheap disposable filters (example: a 69-cent Home Depot 'see-through' filter), importance of capturing small particles, balancing filtration efficiency with airflow, signs a filter is too restrictive (filter corners caving in while unit runs), and mention of standalone air cleaners. The episode closes with CTAs to share the episode, use #HealthyHome, rate/review on Apple Podcasts, and visit simmons1hour.com.
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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. 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 our techs go out to the house, they can recommend what's better for you, but I would. Yes, you need a better filter than the 69 cent Home Depot see through filter. I mean, if you can, if you can lay it on your table, take salt, pour it over it, and the salt gets through. That's not a good filter. That makes sense because you're trying. I mean, the big filter is stopping.
Or the cheap filter is stopping things.
Like sandwiches and chickens and any kind of furry pets from coming through, but it's not stopping the small particles that you need to be stopping. And that is 98% of your problem is the small ones, not the big ones. So that's where you need to be focused on. So the better filter is better for you, but you do have to walk a fine line of restricting airflow and stopping the particles. Now, there are air cleaners on the market. They can handle both. We have them. But you just have to be careful about knobbish. I'll tell you a good sign. So when you put the filter in the return and the unit's running, if it starts to cave in a little bit and the corners cave in a little bit, that filter is too much for that unit. It is too tight because now you're caving it in a little bit and the air is still going around the corners. So, I mean, you defeat the purpose. It's not going into the filter anymore. It's going around the filter to get to where it's going. So, you know, you should give a gentle little tug to get it out. You shouldn't have that much force to get it out. So that's kind of a rule of thumb. I kind of hate rule of thumbs, but there you go, there's one of them. So if you have, I mean, if you have to like, you know, lean against the wall to get it out, that is a problem. If you have to just pull a little bit, you're good to.
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