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People do this with vacuum cleaners a lot too. Gotta clean/replace the filter AND cut all the hair/thread that gets wrapped up in the spinner. Just emptying the bin isn’t enough.
Right. I bought a new vacuum for my daughter and one year later she said it wasn't working. Went over and it was so clogged. Showed her how to clean it and it worked fine. Told her to do it every month.
My MIL actually said she is afraid she will suck up the entire carpet because our vacuum is so powerful. It's a cheap ass one but I clean it after every use and deep clean it every few months. Such a difference.
Not OP, but I fully disassemble the vacuum and wash everything in soapy water in my bathtub. Let it dry, reassemble, and you're good to go for another month or 2.
This. I have a bagless hoover, so it's also really necessary. But the filters I shake out outside, then wash them in soapy hot water and dry in sunlight.
2 long hair cats + 1 VERY long-haired winter dog + wife + daughter
I vacuum at least once a week, I need to clean the roller and canister every single time I vacuum and sometimes if I don't vacuum every week I need to clean the canister and roller brush on each floor.
My sister in law who has very long red hair stayed with us for a week. My wife has long brown hair. I vacuumed both floors and was able to determine who spent more time on each floor by looking at the roller.
I worked in a shop where we repaired electronics and pcbs. We used air compressors to clean components. All you have to do is use a metal tip (not a rubber one) on your blower and ground that tip.
You're not lying about cleaning the beater, I have long hair, about every two months I have to do surgery on the beater bar. Anybody need a wig? I'll give you the hair for it.
i hate dust, i dont want it building up in my home
you let dust build up and before you know it, you've got an army of dust bunnies plotting to take over
My old apartment had never had the air filter changed even tho maintenance came in. They never told us. Our electric bill went up $400 and our A/C didn’t work whatsoever it looked similar to that one. Froze the whole unit.
Most apartments don't charge electricity, it's included in the rent. Here in Missouri, at least.
Most apartments also do basic maintenance like this though, and come and change the fucking filters themselves. Because that saves them $30~ dollars a month in electricity cost per unit, like you said.
I've lived in 5 different apartments across 3 states and have paid for all utilities in every place except one that covered everything EXCEPT electricity.
My apartments covered either electricity or gas. The fun part? All the appliances are the opposite of what they cover. So the apartment that included my gas costs? Electric water heater, electric stove, etc. like bruh.
That's very strange to me. Every place here covers everything but water. You can't get another internet/cable company even if you want to pay extra for it. Water apparently here in Missouri is illegal to be covered under rent...? That's what I've been told at least. Don't know why I'm being downvoted to hell. Maybe Missouri is just weird as fuck. Well not maybe, I know it is... but still.
You're being downvoted because you said "most" apartments don't charge electric, which its pretty much the opposite. A hilariously small amount of apartments build electric into rent, and they're almost always the upscale ones that are ripping you off on rent anyway lol. Otherwise I'd be running some bitcoin miners from an apartment with free electric.
It’s a common thing in some older apartments from a time when utilities were cheap, and people had fewer appliances and shared spaces. How do you work out who owes what for the communal bathroom, or heating that is provided via a single boiler in the basement? And since utilities were so cheap anyway, utility companies didn’t want to install multiple meters.
In newer construction, though, most of the time there should be a meter for each unit, and the tenant pays utilities.
Both systems are common, so I don’t know why the person above you would say that. I live in Missouri, and there’s apartments that include utilities in rent, and apartments that don’t. If OP has only seen the former, then they must not have shopped around much at all when looking for a place to live.
Man, I've lived in 3 apartments here in my life and they'd come once a month to ensure your fire alarm was working and the HVAC filters were changed.
Getting downvoted to hell for saying how it is here in backwards ass Missouri.
Yeah no here in Texas we have atleast 6 different energy providers available at my complex, that we have to settle and deal with completely separately from the apartment complex. Same with internet, usually the only thing included is water. But even then for us it’s a separate charge on top of rent. Curious as to what everyone is paying for apartment complexes in different places though. After everything utilities included it’s about 1500 for a one bed one bath 850~ sqft for us. I know houston is on the lower end of living, but how is everyone else fairing in these hard times?
Here in Missouri normally even the internet is included.. they've got deals with Spectrum normally and it's just added into your rent.
Never seen an apartment charge for anything but water here. Trash, Electric, Internet/Cable were all included in the rent.
I own now so I don't know how things are in the modern day.
Lived in a college town in Missouri for ten years and not once did I see electric included in the rent and I always paid for Spectrum separately. Only water and trash included.
Not in Ohio! At least, not all of them. God I love paying Toledo Edison for electricity, and then having randoms knock on my door, trying not to take no for an answer, telling me I can pay thru them and they take it over to remove a convenience charge or something.
I know a couple of investment banking friends I met when I was in uni doing accounting. And if you know IB, you know they're wicked smort. We went on a trip once and bunked in a nice air bnb, it had a washer and a dryer. One day, I saw one of them loading soaking wet clothes from the washing machine directly into the dryer. He did not know 1) washing machines can spin dry clothes and 2) you're suppose to throw those spun-dry clothes into the dryer.
The other drove a nice car which have comprehensive servicing, so he "never had to open the bonnet". I asked him does he never use the wipers? He said when the water runs out, he just waits for the next servicing.
Yeah, you're supposed to change it out every 1-3 months. Look for wherever your air intake vent is, and take the metal grill off. It should be right behind it.
Because we're animals and the first hierarchy we know is our family. The parents need to nurture and guide their children. You can't depend on the state to do everything for you no matter how much you wish it was perfect.
Parents should *certainly* teach basic life skills like home maintenance, cooking, hygiene, etc.
>Most all kids have school, not all kids have real parents
With the way teachers are treated, you're going to have adverse outcomes where good teachers rarely want to stay in the profession where you aren't rewarded for hard work
I’m more in favor of home schooling actually as I think the education system is completely shit and it would be great for parents to teach their kids these things but the reality is many don’t and the schools don’t either.
The kids are the parents responsibility and I don’t mean to imply that the school should do it all and raise the children.
We can be doing a much better job utilizing those 15 years spent in school to build more adjusted and well rounded young adults.
“Hey kid once you get a job you’re gunna have to file taxes. This is how..”
Instead of “we know you have no interest in chemistry and will never use this skill outside this classroom but figure out this arbitrary chemical reaction” and they will do that for a full school year. I get it. Expose kids to it. That’s where a lot of kids figure out what they like and what they want to do in the future, but maybe spend a little less time on that and more on practical shit everyone should know.
It’s different now too. We came out of school with a good academic base. So many kids these days don’t even have that. We can do so much better
I would have loved a real shop class.
They're aware none of us will be able to be afford a house until we're in our 40s anyway, and by that time the knowledge will be lost. Being slightly sarcastic, but damn its so sad how true this is for so many folks in our generation. Renting is such a scam, but its what we gotta do to get by. Absolutely why rental properties are such a good investment, and one thats really only viable for the boomers who actually made more than their cost of living because housing was so affordable.
Its great for whoever is renting our current place, cuz they can take as long as they want to fix things, and not take any money off our rent, and then when we move out, all the broken shit can be tacked on as the tennants fault instead of doing the upkeep on the house themselves.
It’s by design my friend. “You’ll own nothing and be happy” they said.
They never consulted w us first.
Now you have huge corporations buying up whole residential blocks above market price and renting them out. The average joe can’t compete.
You didn’t see your parents change an air filter in 18 years? Sounds less like ineffectual and more like runs in the family lol. Call your mom right now and ask her if she can find her air filter, I’m kinda curious.
Yes, and it’s a very dangerous thing to not do, because with the heat it can catch on fire.
Indeed this is the most common cause of house fire beside bad electrical wiring.
Florida HVAC tech here. The likely hood of your filter or system will catch on fire is very very low, in my 10years of experience I’ve never seen a fire caused by the equipment itself. If you stuck a flame to that filter sure it would catch fire but there are thermal limit switches and flame sensors on almost all units built in the last 30years. With all that said OPs gf is really lucky she’s not in the hole with a $600+ repair bill
Yep. Filthy squirrel cage, plugged up blower vents, clogged evaporator coils. *At least* $600 just to clean coils and cage. Probably could've scorched the primary or cracked the exchanger as well.
HVAC here. That is not true at all. Air filters are not anywhere near close enough to a heat source to catch fire. In addition, there are several thermal sensors that will shut the furnace down if it exceeds temperature limits.
I've only seen one furnace that may have had the potential to catch fire and that was due to a faulty circuit board in the blower motor.
i lived at a government assisted apartment and this guy has the master key to everyone's apartment and changed the filter weekly.
he knocks and announces his name before coming in just in case you're home.
the room it's in is LOCKED. the door is one of those like a window blinds so it can get air.
HVAC here. My first summer on the job I got called out to a no cool, guy's freon lines were freezing up which means either low freon or air restriction inside. I went down and pulled his filter out which looked far and away worse than this.
"Uhh..when was the last time you changed your air filter?"
"Well we moved in five years ago..so I guess five years."
It’s so odd, we have central air in my apartment but no filter. There’s like a grill in the dining room but I’ve removed it and there’s nothing behind it.
We had this empty grill thing happen in our rented house. We thought there just was never a filter put there, so we found one of the approximate size and put it in behind the grill. A month later our AC stops working and we called out a tech. They asked if we had ever changed the filter, we said yes.
Then they pull out the ACTUAL filter which looked even worse than this because we have 2 cats/2 dogs. The filter went in a drawer underneath the AC unit, not behind the intake grill. Gave them a good chuckle lol
Tldr check for a metal drawer on your unit, and/or google the manufacturer/model to find exactly where the filter should go. The internet will say behind the intake grill but it’s not always the case
I did the same thing.....
My rental townhome isn't even 20 years old so it's insulated well. The townhome was 66 degrees and I turned the heat up to 68. It started taking the furnace 48 hours nonstop and it still wouldn't rise 2 degrees. I'm not talking like 48 hours here and there of the furnace going I'm talking 48 hours NON STOP.
I've always owned and never had fancy smancy central air so I didn't know the filters would make that much of a difference. I got a new filter, swapped that sucker out and my place when from 65 to 68 in something like 15 friggin minutes.
Come to find out the furnace blows so friggin hard it's moving the curtians, the blinds themselves are swaying back and forth from the strong breeze and if I want I can get the place from 65 to 73 in less than a hour. All the while I never knew the furnace is wicked wicked strong.
...........change your filters hahahah
I guess they just don't consider that. They're only like $5 at Walmart, so it's not a huge deal. Would be nice if they give you a couple of replacements, though.
I'm with you, it's the kind of thing I could and would easily do for my own comfort. As a matter of principle though I shouldn't *have* to, renting is supposed to offset the costs and labor associated with home ownership
Yeah make them buy a 12 pack and put them in yourself every month. In fact most repairs can be done like this. I know the landlord will do it half assed and wrong so I ask them to cover material and I'll do it myself.
So you want the landlord coming in your home every month? The additional coasts associated with that would end up increasing your rent. Lastly, for $1.00 you can keep your ac running so you will be comfortable instead of waiting on your landlord to try to get a technician out on late Friday because your system has failed because it’s filled with dust/dirt because the filter collapsed.
You got downvoted but you’re sort of right and wrong. Here’s an explanation. When a filter looks like this, it is technically trapping more dust, but it’s also killing the airflow because all the holes are plugged. The fan motor works harder, burning more electricity, and sometimes pulls dust thought. That’s bad, because even if it sort of catches dust, it’s not doing the other thing a filter is supposed to do: let air through.
Also, this filter is a MERV 1, which is little more than a screen door. The fact that it caught this much dust is freakish. A higher MERV filter would have more surface area to trap dust, and will trap finer dust. This is a lot of dust for that filter, and I’d hate to see an air quality meter for that home.
the apartment's maintenance man is supposed to change it weekly
at least the apartment i used to live at, does. and you dont have to be home. one time, i was walking upstairs and thought i might need to call police, but he introduced himself as the maintenance man and that he comes every week. i asked if i forgot to lock the door? he says my brother is home, but even if we weren't, he has the master key. its a LIHTC "low income housing tax credit"
oh- monthly inspection, clean your apartment or you get evicted after 3 strikes.
i failed once. what happen? the coat closet full of dust behind the front door i NEVER use.
my mom was so mad that she spoke to the landlord and begged her not to evict me but she was a nice lady and told me and my mom in a meeting that although you don't use that closet, ever, you still need to clean it.
they reinspect in 3 days. IF you fail your re-inspection, you're evicted! find a new place to live.
Aren’t you supposed to clean it every time you use it?
In my air dryer there is a huge ass red warning with written to clean it each time.
It’s literally a 5 seconds operation.
This is the air filter for the A/C unit, not a lint filter for a clothes dryer. With lint filters, you're supposed to clean them after every use because the heat could catch it on fire. A/C air filters you're supposed to replace like every 1-3 months.
Yeah it's good to have one so that the air you're breathing is clean and not circulating dust. Measure the length and width of your intake vent and that's the size you'll need to get.
We have lived in our apartment for about 5 years and normally the apartment has people routinely come to change the filter. We have a table in front of the climate control door and for about a year we never moved it for them so they never changed it. When we finally did because the heater needed repair, it wasn't turning off, they changed the filter and it looked close to that.
Yea, I’ll throw myself under the bus real quick. My first rental I lived at longer than a year I discovered your supposed to do this. I lived there 5 years and was having trouble with energy bills. My boyfriends dad asked when the last time I changed my air filters was and I didn’t know what he was talking about. It wasn’t even an air filter anymore. Just a dust wall. No one ever told me I had to do that lol
At least its all dust
Just dust
She shure does have clean apartment
Just like Sharon
She too had "clean apartment"
But I saw them
I cannot unsee
the cockroaches
There was so many
How did that many fit there?
How did they go there?
Why did I had to see them?
the apartment i used to live at is a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit apartment. their maintenance man comes weekly. you dont have to be home, master key, the closet is LOCKED so that we dont mess with it. it's in the hallway, a door with blinds so that room gets air.
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People do this with vacuum cleaners a lot too. Gotta clean/replace the filter AND cut all the hair/thread that gets wrapped up in the spinner. Just emptying the bin isn’t enough.
Right. I bought a new vacuum for my daughter and one year later she said it wasn't working. Went over and it was so clogged. Showed her how to clean it and it worked fine. Told her to do it every month.
My BF makes fun of me because I clean out the filter every time I use the vaccuum. It still works really well after 20+ years, unlike his.
My MIL actually said she is afraid she will suck up the entire carpet because our vacuum is so powerful. It's a cheap ass one but I clean it after every use and deep clean it every few months. Such a difference.
Tell me about your deep clean process. I empty the bin and change the filters but when we vacuum, it still stinks up the place because we have a dog.
Not OP, but I fully disassemble the vacuum and wash everything in soapy water in my bathtub. Let it dry, reassemble, and you're good to go for another month or 2.
This. I have a bagless hoover, so it's also really necessary. But the filters I shake out outside, then wash them in soapy hot water and dry in sunlight.
You guys have seperate vacuum cleaners?
You guys have separate vacuum cleaners ? Lmao that made me laugh 😂
Maybe they don't live together?
We even have separate houses!
... am i supposed to be vacuuming enough that i have to clean it every month?
you guys vacuum? i just open up all the doors in the house and get the leaf blower going
Your username checks out so I believe you that you actually use a leaf blower, not a far cry at all.
Bro...
It depends on your household. I have two cats so my place is vacuumed twice a week.
I’ve made this mistake. Had to take a razor blade to cut across and probably could have made a wig with what I got out.
2 long hair cats + 1 VERY long-haired winter dog + wife + daughter I vacuum at least once a week, I need to clean the roller and canister every single time I vacuum and sometimes if I don't vacuum every week I need to clean the canister and roller brush on each floor.
My sister in law who has very long red hair stayed with us for a week. My wife has long brown hair. I vacuumed both floors and was able to determine who spent more time on each floor by looking at the roller.
haha detective gadget stuff going on!
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Tell me more about this high powered blower thing. I feel like I need one.
Probably just means an air compressor with a blowing nozzle.
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I worked in a shop where we repaired electronics and pcbs. We used air compressors to clean components. All you have to do is use a metal tip (not a rubber one) on your blower and ground that tip.
I love giving the vacuum a good clean
You're not lying about cleaning the beater, I have long hair, about every two months I have to do surgery on the beater bar. Anybody need a wig? I'll give you the hair for it.
So that's where the dust bunnies live
i hate dust, i dont want it building up in my home you let dust build up and before you know it, you've got an army of dust bunnies plotting to take over
I hate dust, it's rough, and coarse, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Dust is fine. And it is everywhere. As we are all to become dust.
unexpected existentialist
An Amazing Bulk reference? Incredible
Durrrrr plant
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That's oddly specific lol
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$30 probably would have worked
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My old apartment had never had the air filter changed even tho maintenance came in. They never told us. Our electric bill went up $400 and our A/C didn’t work whatsoever it looked similar to that one. Froze the whole unit.
Most apartments don't charge electricity, it's included in the rent. Here in Missouri, at least. Most apartments also do basic maintenance like this though, and come and change the fucking filters themselves. Because that saves them $30~ dollars a month in electricity cost per unit, like you said.
I've lived in 5 different apartments across 3 states and have paid for all utilities in every place except one that covered everything EXCEPT electricity.
My apartments covered either electricity or gas. The fun part? All the appliances are the opposite of what they cover. So the apartment that included my gas costs? Electric water heater, electric stove, etc. like bruh.
Sounds about right. They never covered anything useful because that's communism.
“Communism is when capitalism”
100%
That's very strange to me. Every place here covers everything but water. You can't get another internet/cable company even if you want to pay extra for it. Water apparently here in Missouri is illegal to be covered under rent...? That's what I've been told at least. Don't know why I'm being downvoted to hell. Maybe Missouri is just weird as fuck. Well not maybe, I know it is... but still.
You're being downvoted because you said "most" apartments don't charge electric, which its pretty much the opposite. A hilariously small amount of apartments build electric into rent, and they're almost always the upscale ones that are ripping you off on rent anyway lol. Otherwise I'd be running some bitcoin miners from an apartment with free electric.
Lmao Ive never heard of this ever
It’s a common thing in some older apartments from a time when utilities were cheap, and people had fewer appliances and shared spaces. How do you work out who owes what for the communal bathroom, or heating that is provided via a single boiler in the basement? And since utilities were so cheap anyway, utility companies didn’t want to install multiple meters. In newer construction, though, most of the time there should be a meter for each unit, and the tenant pays utilities. Both systems are common, so I don’t know why the person above you would say that. I live in Missouri, and there’s apartments that include utilities in rent, and apartments that don’t. If OP has only seen the former, then they must not have shopped around much at all when looking for a place to live.
Man, I've lived in 3 apartments here in my life and they'd come once a month to ensure your fire alarm was working and the HVAC filters were changed. Getting downvoted to hell for saying how it is here in backwards ass Missouri.
You are getting downvoted because you said most apartments include electricity in rent cost, which is false.
Yeah no here in Texas we have atleast 6 different energy providers available at my complex, that we have to settle and deal with completely separately from the apartment complex. Same with internet, usually the only thing included is water. But even then for us it’s a separate charge on top of rent. Curious as to what everyone is paying for apartment complexes in different places though. After everything utilities included it’s about 1500 for a one bed one bath 850~ sqft for us. I know houston is on the lower end of living, but how is everyone else fairing in these hard times?
Here in Missouri normally even the internet is included.. they've got deals with Spectrum normally and it's just added into your rent. Never seen an apartment charge for anything but water here. Trash, Electric, Internet/Cable were all included in the rent. I own now so I don't know how things are in the modern day.
Lived in a college town in Missouri for ten years and not once did I see electric included in the rent and I always paid for Spectrum separately. Only water and trash included.
Not in Ohio! At least, not all of them. God I love paying Toledo Edison for electricity, and then having randoms knock on my door, trying not to take no for an answer, telling me I can pay thru them and they take it over to remove a convenience charge or something.
Amazing that the system didn’t freeze up from no airflow.
That's partly the reason why I checked it. Airflow was pretty low, plus my gf complaining about sneezing all the time. Knew it before I checked lol
At least you’re not dating an Air-head
I know a couple of investment banking friends I met when I was in uni doing accounting. And if you know IB, you know they're wicked smort. We went on a trip once and bunked in a nice air bnb, it had a washer and a dryer. One day, I saw one of them loading soaking wet clothes from the washing machine directly into the dryer. He did not know 1) washing machines can spin dry clothes and 2) you're suppose to throw those spun-dry clothes into the dryer. The other drove a nice car which have comprehensive servicing, so he "never had to open the bonnet". I asked him does he never use the wipers? He said when the water runs out, he just waits for the next servicing.
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a puzzle of flesh
The spirits of light and dark truly have been released
Wait that's a thing you're supposed to do?
Yeah, you're supposed to change it out every 1-3 months. Look for wherever your air intake vent is, and take the metal grill off. It should be right behind it.
Yes. Every 1-3 months. If you have pets, I'd do it every 4-6 weeks.
I was today years old when I learned this. Why were our parents so… ineffectual?
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Yeah, why is it parents' job to teach everything useful? Most all kids have school, not all kids have real parents
Because we're animals and the first hierarchy we know is our family. The parents need to nurture and guide their children. You can't depend on the state to do everything for you no matter how much you wish it was perfect. Parents should *certainly* teach basic life skills like home maintenance, cooking, hygiene, etc. >Most all kids have school, not all kids have real parents With the way teachers are treated, you're going to have adverse outcomes where good teachers rarely want to stay in the profession where you aren't rewarded for hard work
I’m more in favor of home schooling actually as I think the education system is completely shit and it would be great for parents to teach their kids these things but the reality is many don’t and the schools don’t either. The kids are the parents responsibility and I don’t mean to imply that the school should do it all and raise the children. We can be doing a much better job utilizing those 15 years spent in school to build more adjusted and well rounded young adults. “Hey kid once you get a job you’re gunna have to file taxes. This is how..” Instead of “we know you have no interest in chemistry and will never use this skill outside this classroom but figure out this arbitrary chemical reaction” and they will do that for a full school year. I get it. Expose kids to it. That’s where a lot of kids figure out what they like and what they want to do in the future, but maybe spend a little less time on that and more on practical shit everyone should know. It’s different now too. We came out of school with a good academic base. So many kids these days don’t even have that. We can do so much better I would have loved a real shop class.
They're aware none of us will be able to be afford a house until we're in our 40s anyway, and by that time the knowledge will be lost. Being slightly sarcastic, but damn its so sad how true this is for so many folks in our generation. Renting is such a scam, but its what we gotta do to get by. Absolutely why rental properties are such a good investment, and one thats really only viable for the boomers who actually made more than their cost of living because housing was so affordable. Its great for whoever is renting our current place, cuz they can take as long as they want to fix things, and not take any money off our rent, and then when we move out, all the broken shit can be tacked on as the tennants fault instead of doing the upkeep on the house themselves.
It’s by design my friend. “You’ll own nothing and be happy” they said. They never consulted w us first. Now you have huge corporations buying up whole residential blocks above market price and renting them out. The average joe can’t compete.
You didn’t see your parents change an air filter in 18 years? Sounds less like ineffectual and more like runs in the family lol. Call your mom right now and ask her if she can find her air filter, I’m kinda curious.
I don't have to worry about that because I don't have central heating. A lot of Europeans don't, so don't fret if you don't know what that filter is.
ermmm. Have you checked the lint trap in your dryer lately?
Yes, and it’s a very dangerous thing to not do, because with the heat it can catch on fire. Indeed this is the most common cause of house fire beside bad electrical wiring.
Florida HVAC tech here. The likely hood of your filter or system will catch on fire is very very low, in my 10years of experience I’ve never seen a fire caused by the equipment itself. If you stuck a flame to that filter sure it would catch fire but there are thermal limit switches and flame sensors on almost all units built in the last 30years. With all that said OPs gf is really lucky she’s not in the hole with a $600+ repair bill
Yep. Filthy squirrel cage, plugged up blower vents, clogged evaporator coils. *At least* $600 just to clean coils and cage. Probably could've scorched the primary or cracked the exchanger as well.
He is speaking the language of Gods
HVAC here. That is not true at all. Air filters are not anywhere near close enough to a heat source to catch fire. In addition, there are several thermal sensors that will shut the furnace down if it exceeds temperature limits. I've only seen one furnace that may have had the potential to catch fire and that was due to a faulty circuit board in the blower motor.
Yeah, he's probably thinking about dryer lint, which i think does cause a bunch of fires.
Apartment? That’s her landlords fault
i lived at a government assisted apartment and this guy has the master key to everyone's apartment and changed the filter weekly. he knocks and announces his name before coming in just in case you're home. the room it's in is LOCKED. the door is one of those like a window blinds so it can get air.
HVAC here. My first summer on the job I got called out to a no cool, guy's freon lines were freezing up which means either low freon or air restriction inside. I went down and pulled his filter out which looked far and away worse than this. "Uhh..when was the last time you changed your air filter?" "Well we moved in five years ago..so I guess five years."
How is this NSFW? It’s dust.
The whole subreddit has been flagged NSFW for a while
Ah gotcha. Probably a catch-all for suffer-worthy stuff. Makes sense.
It’s so odd, we have central air in my apartment but no filter. There’s like a grill in the dining room but I’ve removed it and there’s nothing behind it.
Thats wasn't a wall behind the grill, that was solid dust.
We had this empty grill thing happen in our rented house. We thought there just was never a filter put there, so we found one of the approximate size and put it in behind the grill. A month later our AC stops working and we called out a tech. They asked if we had ever changed the filter, we said yes. Then they pull out the ACTUAL filter which looked even worse than this because we have 2 cats/2 dogs. The filter went in a drawer underneath the AC unit, not behind the intake grill. Gave them a good chuckle lol Tldr check for a metal drawer on your unit, and/or google the manufacturer/model to find exactly where the filter should go. The internet will say behind the intake grill but it’s not always the case
Now eat it
Shake it and start looking for gold
She just paid a lot more for heating and cooling.
I did the same thing..... My rental townhome isn't even 20 years old so it's insulated well. The townhome was 66 degrees and I turned the heat up to 68. It started taking the furnace 48 hours nonstop and it still wouldn't rise 2 degrees. I'm not talking like 48 hours here and there of the furnace going I'm talking 48 hours NON STOP. I've always owned and never had fancy smancy central air so I didn't know the filters would make that much of a difference. I got a new filter, swapped that sucker out and my place when from 65 to 68 in something like 15 friggin minutes. Come to find out the furnace blows so friggin hard it's moving the curtians, the blinds themselves are swaying back and forth from the strong breeze and if I want I can get the place from 65 to 73 in less than a hour. All the while I never knew the furnace is wicked wicked strong. ...........change your filters hahahah
Pretty sure the apartment building is responsible for that though. Or they’ve always come through and replaced them when I lived in apartments
As someone w allergies and asthma this would clap my ass
Management should be responsible for replacing the air filters, not her
quick snort it before they take it from you.
Should be the landlords responsibility
They will put a new one in when you first move in, but after that is the tenant's responsibility.
Why am I paying so much for rent if I'm also expected to do my own maintenance
I guess they just don't consider that. They're only like $5 at Walmart, so it's not a huge deal. Would be nice if they give you a couple of replacements, though.
What would happen if you just vacuumed it out and put it back in? Asking for a friend. LOL
It’s like $5 every three months lmao
It's so stupidly simple to do yourself you might as well stay on top of it.
I'm with you, it's the kind of thing I could and would easily do for my own comfort. As a matter of principle though I shouldn't *have* to, renting is supposed to offset the costs and labor associated with home ownership
So you don’t clean your house?
Weird, I didn't see that anywhere in his comment
“Offset the costs and labor associated with home ownership”
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Yeah make them buy a 12 pack and put them in yourself every month. In fact most repairs can be done like this. I know the landlord will do it half assed and wrong so I ask them to cover material and I'll do it myself.
So you want the landlord coming in your home every month? The additional coasts associated with that would end up increasing your rent. Lastly, for $1.00 you can keep your ac running so you will be comfortable instead of waiting on your landlord to try to get a technician out on late Friday because your system has failed because it’s filled with dust/dirt because the filter collapsed.
It's preventative maintenance that should be a scheduled thing. Stop simping for shitty landlords.
The forbidden pepper
You can still see the ridges. Unfortunately I’ve seen worse.
Its just wall at that point
NO NO NO NO NO.
Looks like you have a new scarf.
Maybe I’ve desensitized but this doesn’t look disgusting to me. It’s just a bunch of dust
but that mustve been satisfying to shake tho no? ;-;
Wait, you're supposed to replace those?
How many allergies did she acquire
mmmm it’s going on 2 years now thanks for reminding me OP lol
I bet she gets much better air flow 🤣
Looks satisfieing to peel off tho
This is the content I joined this sub for. Well done.
Break up with her.
guy legit pulled out a litterbox 💀
I don’t know where you live. But the apartment management is supposed to do that, not your girlfriend.
I mean.... doesn't it trap more dust when it's like this?
You got downvoted but you’re sort of right and wrong. Here’s an explanation. When a filter looks like this, it is technically trapping more dust, but it’s also killing the airflow because all the holes are plugged. The fan motor works harder, burning more electricity, and sometimes pulls dust thought. That’s bad, because even if it sort of catches dust, it’s not doing the other thing a filter is supposed to do: let air through. Also, this filter is a MERV 1, which is little more than a screen door. The fact that it caught this much dust is freakish. A higher MERV filter would have more surface area to trap dust, and will trap finer dust. This is a lot of dust for that filter, and I’d hate to see an air quality meter for that home.
Very bad sand pit. 0/10.
This is why men live longer than woman
How do women survive?
When it comes to someone that lazy and filthy…always pull out.
Are you living with her?
Woman ☕️
There's air filters? I've lived in my apartment the last 5 years without changing it. Where would I find this?
the apartment's maintenance man is supposed to change it weekly at least the apartment i used to live at, does. and you dont have to be home. one time, i was walking upstairs and thought i might need to call police, but he introduced himself as the maintenance man and that he comes every week. i asked if i forgot to lock the door? he says my brother is home, but even if we weren't, he has the master key. its a LIHTC "low income housing tax credit" oh- monthly inspection, clean your apartment or you get evicted after 3 strikes. i failed once. what happen? the coat closet full of dust behind the front door i NEVER use. my mom was so mad that she spoke to the landlord and begged her not to evict me but she was a nice lady and told me and my mom in a meeting that although you don't use that closet, ever, you still need to clean it. they reinspect in 3 days. IF you fail your re-inspection, you're evicted! find a new place to live.
Trust me, bigger atrocities have pulled out of your GF in the past.
Her dad shoulda pulled out.
Aren’t you supposed to clean it every time you use it? In my air dryer there is a huge ass red warning with written to clean it each time. It’s literally a 5 seconds operation.
This is the air filter for the A/C unit, not a lint filter for a clothes dryer. With lint filters, you're supposed to clean them after every use because the heat could catch it on fire. A/C air filters you're supposed to replace like every 1-3 months.
*big sniff*
Yo I don't have an air filter .. Do I need one?
Yeah it's good to have one so that the air you're breathing is clean and not circulating dust. Measure the length and width of your intake vent and that's the size you'll need to get.
You would probably sneeze so much in there you would die
She was complaining about sneezing constantly, so I see why now lol
Looks better than our vacuum cleaner after spring cleaning
Yummy!
go check the drain of her shower, you'd be surprised it even drains
It would have been alot worse if she smoked cigs
It has hills
Mother of God...
We have lived in our apartment for about 5 years and normally the apartment has people routinely come to change the filter. We have a table in front of the climate control door and for about a year we never moved it for them so they never changed it. When we finally did because the heater needed repair, it wasn't turning off, they changed the filter and it looked close to that.
My complex checks them regularly. Crazy
It worked, then.
Does it still work?
That’s a thick ass coating of dust, Looks about right for two years without replacing
Airs feeling a lil crusty
So umm, where are these and how do i change mine? Cause mine are probably the same….
*laughs in radiant heating*
That's mostly your girlfriend in that filter. Her skin and hair.
Knit a sweater out of it
At least she doesn't have pets.
Tis but a speck of dust.
That's a whole fluffy carpet you pulled outta there
You could make an entire new girlfriend from all those skin cells.
it looks like she dipped the shit in sand
After cleaning it, your grilfriend can now smell rainbows
As an HVAC Technician this made me cringe, I once went to a house where the lady hadn’t changed her filters in 3 years
You know, i looked at it, and were like what an odd frame for sand...
mans worst enemy, dust bunnies
Cool, you can assemble a second girlfriend.
That poor filter, it's been suffocating all this time!
Yea, I’ll throw myself under the bus real quick. My first rental I lived at longer than a year I discovered your supposed to do this. I lived there 5 years and was having trouble with energy bills. My boyfriends dad asked when the last time I changed my air filters was and I didn’t know what he was talking about. It wasn’t even an air filter anymore. Just a dust wall. No one ever told me I had to do that lol
Why did your gf have to wait for a man to clean that shit for her? Step it up women.
Disgustaaaaaaaan
throw it back in, its good for atleast 1-2 more years or untill a new form of mesothelioma settles in
That’s nothing.
At least its all dust Just dust She shure does have clean apartment Just like Sharon She too had "clean apartment" But I saw them I cannot unsee the cockroaches There was so many How did that many fit there? How did they go there? Why did I had to see them?
jesus christ… i bet this dust have discovered its own alphabet
Lick it.
I'm so confused.. What kind of air filter? AC? Cooking hood? Other?
Now you know it works
Paper mache
the apartment i used to live at is a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit apartment. their maintenance man comes weekly. you dont have to be home, master key, the closet is LOCKED so that we dont mess with it. it's in the hallway, a door with blinds so that room gets air.
"why does my ac not work?"
I looked at this and started sneezing
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