Spring Cleaning & Indoor Air Quality

Alachua County residents don’t realize their home air conditioning and heating system operates approximately 3,300 hours per year. To put this “run time” in perspective, a car driven for the same 3,300 hours at 65 miles per hour would travel 214,500 miles. No one would consider such a journey without arranging for oil changes, lubrication, and routine tune-ups along the way to assure the efficiency, safety and reliability of the vehicle. Your home heating and air conditioning system serves you many more hours than your car, and, like your car, needs routine tune-ups to operate in an efficient, safe, and reliable manner.

The best way to maintain your air conditioning and heating systems are with semi-annual tune-ups. A proper tune-up will include everything that can possibly be done in order to restore your heating and air conditioning system to its very best condition.

Once you schedule your tune-ups, it is important to change your filters regularly, especially if your home boasts wooden or tile flooring. Carpet acts as a filter catching pet dander, pollen and debris that travels through the air inside your home. Children and pets breathe twice as much air as adults and; therefore, benefit the most from clean indoor air.

There are varying kinds of filters that reduce indoor air pollution of such types, and these filters need only to be changed quarterly or annually. Check to see which type of filter you may have and make appointments on your calendar to replace them.

Spring in Gainesville can be quite warm in the day with cooler mornings and evenings. Reduce your carbon footprint and utility costs by opening your windows. Because indoor air is 100 times dirtier than outdoor air, the outside air that blows into your home through open windows, will freshen up the air you breathe. Both you and your family, as well as your pets, will breathe cleaner air and feel healthier.