{"id":8500,"date":"2020-09-03T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2020-09-10T22:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:59:33","slug":"filters-and-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/03\/filters-and-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Filters and Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To deal with the smoke in the air, I put a MERV 13 furnace filter on our forced-air system, sealed up the forced-air ducts with aluminum tape (great stuff!) and put a MERV 13 filter on a fan. It&#8217;s woring well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had noticed that the air coming out of the vents had a slight odor\u2026 certainly more odor than the air in the house in general. So I went under the house for a look. I lit a match and blew it out near the air intake: I saw the smoke being drawn into the system and my family immediately noticed the smell in the house! They shouldn&#8217;t have smelled it! There were 3 places where I found leaks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>in the air intake manifold in the house: I stuck my head into the intake and taped it up.<\/li><li>under the house where the air intake manifold is.<\/li><li>Where the ductwork goes into the furnace itself.<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I used aluminum tape (not &#8220;duct tape!) to seal it up and it helped a LOT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200826_071101-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And Dave shared his &#8220;cheapo hepa pet dander filter&#8221; with me :-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dave-dander-filter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dave-dander-filter-447x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dave-dander-filter-447x600.jpg 447w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dave-dander-filter-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dave-dander-filter-89x120.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dave-dander-filter-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dave-dander-filter-37x50.jpg 37w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/dave-dander-filter.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To deal with the smoke in the air, I put a MERV 13 furnace filter on our forced-air system, sealed up the forced-air ducts with aluminum tape (great stuff!) and put a MERV 13 filter on a fan. 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