Psychotomy

So

tuesday night we noticed the house was hella hot. when i checked, there was no airflow. Further investigation revealed that the air filter was soaked and holding water :o

We freaked a bit, but wednesday it turned out to be just condensation. Spent a bunch getting a guy out to check it out. He looked, blew out the drain to be sure, and after looking at the filter we decided it had been more than 3 weeks since i changed it. based on how dirty, he’s guessing closer to 3mo :o that restricted the airflow enough that the coils were getting too hot, which meant there was more condensation, which meant it started dripping more, which meant the drainage pan overflowed, which poured it onto the filter, which reduced airflow …

until it reached the point where i found it at ~0 flow :o

we had shut it off tuesday night to be safe (my first thought was the upstairs shower draining into the ducts :o) . wednesday morning we turned it on, since we would be home and awake if anything happened. guy was there around noon. it was still 78 wednesday night. But i think it did a wonderful job maintaining, since it was 100+ outside :o by thursday evening it had shut itself off in it’s normal manner b/c the house was cool finally!

i need to start replacing the filter every month. Or maybe more.

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