I l gained years ago that not all a/c filters are equally effective at filtering particles from your indoor air.
I hate how much money I spend on mouthwash and hand lotion. Both of these things come in a wide range of options, from bottles that are cheap to ones that cost over $10 each. I use special clinical strength mouthwash because I have a bridge where our front teeth are supposed to be. It’s essential that I keep this area disinfected weekly, although I wish the clinical strength mouthwash wasn’t so costly. The cheap mouthwash doesn’t even work. I can say the same for hand lotion. Most of it doesn’t even penetrate your skin, it just feels enjoy a thin movie that washes away as soon as you go to clean your hands in the sink. This is why I buy intensive healing lotion that absorbs into our skin and provides moisture for hours on end. It’s absolutely dry in this region for most of the year, so having dry skin results in skin cracks that occasionally bleed. I don’t want our hands to be bloody, especially in public. I have to use the same sort of diligence with our a/c that I use with our skin and oral health. You can’t simply buy cheap a/c filters and expect your unit to last for the better area of multiple decades separate from concerns or problems. I l gained years ago that not all a/c filters are equally effective at filtering particles from your indoor air. Not only do these particles get into your lungs while you breathe, however they also gather on the evaporator coil in your cooling system’s air handler. If too much dust and dirt builds up on the evaporator coil, it lowers the efficiency of your unit since air can’t penetrate the coil at the same rate. Eventually it may cause your coil to crack and leak refrigerant until the system is completely depleted of coolant.