Derek ColeGM, Simmons One Hour Heating & Air · AI HVAC Answers

What’s that smell? 👃#shorts #hvac #smell

11 May 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Derek Cole. This content was uploaded by Derek Cole. This is a YouTube short titled "What’s that smell? 👃#shorts #hvac #smell" (created 2023-05-11) featuring a single presenter explaining that the damp, musty smell from first use of heating or air conditioning is caused by mold growing on the indoor coil. The speaker recommends preventing it by introducing UV light into the HVAC system (e.g., a coil scrubber that shines UV on the coil) and gives a simple sunlight/mat example to illustrate that UV prevents microbial growth.

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The first time you turn on your heat or your air conditioning, you get that kind of damp, musty, moldy kind of smell. So the way to prevent that from happening is to introduce UV into that system somehow. Now we do it here with the coil scrubber, which shines on the indoor coil, has the UV power. So nothing can grow in uv. If you want to prove that point, everybody at home has that mat at the front or back of the house that has the mildew, and it's kind of wet and it's kind of damp. Take that mat, stick it out in the middle of the yard in the sunshine for a period of time, and that will be clean and dry, because nothing can grow when UV is present.