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Jul. 29th, 2002 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumIn most Arizona apartment complexes, central air conditioning is standard. That way we don't, like, die.
It seems that this apartment, as well as the one I rented before, has a certain inexplicable design quirk.
Near the center of the apartment is an intake vent, where the air to be refrigerated is sucked in. This vent has a filter inside which is meant to trap any dust particles in the air and keep the apartment, and machinery, a little cleaner.
But in this apartment, as in the last, the filters are these cheap, cheesy cardboard-framed dealies which are just small enough that, invariably, a corner slips up into the duct, causing some kind of friction against some sort of rotating part, and making a very annoying (and for all I know, unsafe) noise.
If they just extended the cardboard a little bit, it would be too big to slip up like that. So why didn't they?
And why has it been working fine for the last three months, but goofed up just now?
It seems that this apartment, as well as the one I rented before, has a certain inexplicable design quirk.
Near the center of the apartment is an intake vent, where the air to be refrigerated is sucked in. This vent has a filter inside which is meant to trap any dust particles in the air and keep the apartment, and machinery, a little cleaner.
But in this apartment, as in the last, the filters are these cheap, cheesy cardboard-framed dealies which are just small enough that, invariably, a corner slips up into the duct, causing some kind of friction against some sort of rotating part, and making a very annoying (and for all I know, unsafe) noise.
If they just extended the cardboard a little bit, it would be too big to slip up like that. So why didn't they?
And why has it been working fine for the last three months, but goofed up just now?
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Date: 2002-07-29 10:25 pm (UTC)I'm stuck buying filters from the company that installed the heat pump, because the air return (the intake part is called a return. It's a technical term) measures 14 X 36, or some s00per wacky size.
But it fits like a glove, and al I have to do to change it is turn the fan ON, open the grate, pull the old filter out, let the vaccum suck the new one into place, and close the grate. peice of cake.