I have no idea how our house changed from being the place where I felt the most comfortable to be a place I dreaded entering.
However, I was planning to stay up late at the commercial Heating & A/C of labor rather than go home because of the terrible indoor air quality.
That ought to have been my first indication to consult a Heating & A/C expert about my issue. But I refrained from doing that and decided to go the cover-up route with my kind friend instead. I then went ahead and spent money on things like scented candles, plug-ins, and sprays with my kind friend! You can definitely picture what happened. Covering them up doesn’t work when there are extreme odors and poor indoor air quality in your home. Yes, you might experience a brief period of time when pleasant smells temporarily mask unpleasant ones. But in our home, as soon as the heat pump turned on, the previous odors returned without delay. The experts in heating and air conditioning explained to us that bacteria suspended in the air are to blame for most odors. So, if you don’t get rid of the bacteria, your efforts to get rid of the odor will be ineffective. You must therefore have air purification. The idea of having to move an air cleaner around my house didn’t appeal to me much. The air filter on the air cleaner needed to be cleaned, but I didn’t want to have to remember. And I would have needed to do that quite frequently. My kind friend and I decided to use the whole-house air purifier as a substitute. This device operates inside the HVAC system and actually kills the bacteria responsible for the odors.