I knew that the old air conditioner didn’t do an amazing job with energy efficiency, temperature control, or air quality management
A few months ago I started having something strange happening. My entire face would swell up without reason to the extent that I could barely open my eyes. It looks like I had just been eating shellfish despite a severe allergy. At times, my eyes were actually so puffy that I could not see straight. My respiratory health began to fail around the same time. I developed a persistent cough but sometimes turned into a dry heave and a painfully raw throat. It started getting very difficult for me to regulate my health and attend work every day. No matter how many doctors I went to, they couldn’t seem to help me with my immune system and respiratory health concerns. They kept putting me on new allergy medications and sending me back out the door. It wasn’t until my neighbor saw an article on the downstream effects of terrible indoor air quality that I finally realized my home and central HVAC system were the problem. Living in the South, the air is regularly hot and humid. This makes your home extremely susceptible to mildew and mold growth if you don’t have the proper air quality control devices in place. Not only do people rely on their central cooling systems to control air temperature, but they serve as a relative humidity management system. Unfortunately, my central cooling system was over 15 years old when I moved in. I knew that the old air conditioner didn’t do an amazing job with energy efficiency, temperature control, or air quality management. However, when I finally called an HVAC technician and they notified me that there was black mold growing in my air duct work, I realized the full extent of my HVAC woes. No allergy pill on Earth can undo the damage of black mold in your central heating and cooling system.