unitedwithme@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agoAnyone in the southern Canadian or US Midwest or NE change their furnace filters yet?message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-squareAnyone in the southern Canadian or US Midwest or NE change their furnace filters yet?unitedwithme@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoWouldn’t the furnace need to run to push air past the filter? I feel like not many people are running their furnace in the summer.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoAC reuses the same fan that goes through the furnace. Even though the furnace is not on the fan still blows air through it. My heat exchanger sits above the filter, which sits above the furnace
minus-squareNorin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoIt depends. Those systems aren’t always tied together, especially in older homes. Mine, for example, is old enough that the house is heated with a boiler pushing hot water through pipes in the floor.
Wouldn’t the furnace need to run to push air past the filter? I feel like not many people are running their furnace in the summer.
AC reuses the same fan that goes through the furnace. Even though the furnace is not on the fan still blows air through it. My heat exchanger sits above the filter, which sits above the furnace
It depends. Those systems aren’t always tied together, especially in older homes.
Mine, for example, is old enough that the house is heated with a boiler pushing hot water through pipes in the floor.
Fair, good point