I usually don’t take too kindly to threats, but recently my wife threatened to divorce me if I didn’t do something to improve the air quality in our home.
She said how she was worried about her health and the health of the children. I asked her why she never brought it to my attention previously, but she said it’s something that I should have known. Well, I don’t read minds and I have been extremely busy over the years with my career, so I don’t know how I’m supposed to know there is such an issue if nobody tells me about it. I ended up getting on the phone with a local HVAC company and asked them to please come out to fix the air quality in my home. I even added that my marriage depended on it and the HVAC expert on the phone seemed surprised to hear that. Well, the HVAC professional who came out said we needed a few things to improve the air quality. He started with the ductwork system saying how it was clogged up pretty badly but a ductwork cleaning and resealing should do the trick. Then we got to the air filter which he said wasn’t good enough. I changed the air filters regularly, but he said these air filters I was using were very low quality and didn’t protect the HVAC system very well and certainly didn’t do anything to improve the air quality in my home. He said HEPA filters would be best, but I should just use good air filters with a MERV rating above 6. I figured that wouldn’t be an issue so I purchased a pack of good quality air filters from the HVAC professional and got the ductwork cleaned.