It’s a box of air filters for every Christmas now
My wife swears that she’s just going to make sure that I get a case of HVAC air filters for Christmas every year.
It’s a joke made at my expense due to a hard lesson learned about HVAC air filters and holiday decorations.
Honestly, I hope to never have HVAC air filters as a present at Christmas. But, I know now that I will be buying air filters by the case now. This is because I really, really love candles. Our girls are finally old enough now to understand and be safe around lit candles. I have been waiting for this a long time. The reason being that I love to simply fill the house with candles during the holiday season. I find that no matter how great my gas furnace is heating the house, there is something so cozy warm about candlelight. So this past winter, I really went for it and bought a slew of candles. They were everywhere throughout the house. And it was as beautiful as I have ever seen our home. What I didn’t quite realize was the effect that all these candles would have on my HVAC equipment. See, when you have that many candles burning, all that candle wax that gets burnt ends up somewhere. What I didn’t realize was it ends up coating the HVAC air filter. It was like a few days before Christmas when I noticed the HVAC was just not cycling off. When I went to check the return, I saw exactly why. The candle wax had nearly sealed the air filter. So the HVAC was really laboring just to get any sort of air flow.