hello everyone today I'm going to go over a quick tip that many owners or
renters forget to do what it's time to clean their filter so one thing you want
to do is all this dust that you see here all this dirt and dust you want to get
it out before you put in a new filter or before you replace the filter so the
first thing you want to do is get a vacuum cleaner and clean all that dirt
and debris from the actual grill once you have that done what you want to do
is this is very very important if you have a washable filter like this one is
the part of the filter that's facing you you want to make a notation on it so for
example here I'm gonna put a little dot or you could just put front I'm trying
to do this while I'm holding my camera but anyway front but I'll tell you why
that's important a little bit later but I want to do that first and then we want
to take the filter out to clean it okay so once you have the filter taken out
what you want to do is the part that's the front that you already labeled front
or that you label the however you want to label you can even use nail polish
whatever just make sure you label that side now this is the front side that we
were looking at on the ceiling setup so the air is going to pass this way and
it's going to come out this way so what's happening is this surface of your
filters the one that's going to collect the most debris and dust and the back
side is going to look a little cleaner because most of the contaminants being
dirt and debris is being trapped on this side so what you want to do why it's
important to label this is when you clean this filter you want to make sure
you apply the water from the back side so the way we're gonna clean the filter
is we're gonna use warm water and we're gonna spray it this way so any dirt and
debris that's on this surface easily gets removed if you guys do it backwards
and you do it this way where you're actually doing now is you're pushing the
dirt and debris into the filter and it's gonna be harder to get out later so keep
in mind the reason why we use filters are for two reasons one as the air
conditioning or heating system is running you want to keep the air in your
house clean but another reason is you don't want dirt and debris on your coils
and if you've ever had a coil cleaning you would know that this is an expensive
process so if you don't do this correctly like I'm telling you now if
you start cleaning it this way and you start pushing more dirt and debris on
this side all that dirt once you put it on to the air conditioning system it's
going to go into your coil and you're going to really dirty your coil so I'm
gonna first start cleaning a section of it and then flip it over so you can see
how much we got it clean so use warm water
then we're gonna flip it over and show you what I mean so if you can look
closely this side is almost the same color as the one in the back the cleaner
side on the backside but the surface area at the front where we trap the dust
you can see that this is cleaner already and you still have dust accumulation on
this side so basically folks it's a simple process just make sure you label
your washable filter if it's a throwaway filter then you just replace it but if
you have to wash it yourself it's best that you label the front side so when it
when it's time to clean it whether you use a garden hose or you do it at the
kitchen sink that you also apply the water whether it's a garden hose or at
the sink from this side to push the dirt and debris out this way again if you
don't do it if you start washing it this way you're just going to push more dirt
and debris into the filter system so make sure you label it make sure you
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