Comments on: Cleaning a Grungy Grille aka the Cover of the Central Air Return

By: Stacy

Stacy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:13:46 +0000

Heather,
My husband built our house and the intake grill is very similarly placed to yours. I wasn’t happy about it, but he said there wasn’t any other functionally suitable spot. I’ve thought many times about how I could possibly camouflage it or something, but it’s probably a lost cause. I have to get over it, alas.
Stacy

By: Heather Solos

Heather Solos — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:44:18 +0000

I don’t vacuum the filter itself, but I give the grille a thorough vacuuming every week when I do all the floors and quick once over when I dust.

By: Milehimama

Milehimama — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:42:32 +0000

We have a allergy filter too – but when the AC guy came out to refill, he told me to change them because it was already grotty. And I had just vacuumed it that week (does anyone else vacuum their AC filters?)

By: Milehimama

Milehimama — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:41:26 +0000

heh- today I wore a skirt to church that I did not buy, nor do I know where it came from. But it fit and looked great! Dry clean only though… I DEFINITELY didn’t buy it!

By: Heather Solos

Heather Solos — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:24:04 +0000

As several of us have allergies -curse you bad genes!- we change our filters monthly. Since they are supposedly rated for 90 days, I’m not sure how much more often I’m willing to change them. This grunge built up slowly over 5 years. It’s only recently that I’ve gotten irritated by the dirt. Now, I have seen what you are referring to, frighteningly fuzzy grilles. That is definitely due to a need to change it more frequently.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:14:58 +0000

I have heard that the grungy intake grill is a sign you need to change your furnace filter more often. We need to wash ours (we got the reusable metal version) soon. Supposedly summer and AC use needs more frequent washing than winter.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:21:35 +0000

I often find mysterious items. These are usually traced to my oldest daughter, who loves to pick things up she sees and take them home with her, often from school. Small plastic game pieces, dice, counting blocks, broken pencils, small broken jewelry bits, a single playing card, bookmarks, bits of string, colorful paperclips, anything you might find on the floor of a school has come home in her pockets or backpack.

By: Rosemary E Paul

Rosemary E Paul — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:14:53 +0000

My intake is sad in this apartment. There is none. The a/c sits next to the dryer and it takes in air through the bi-fold doors. Talk about a mess. Those doors aren’t even varnished so I wipe a rag over the slats and the rag sticks to the unfinished wood. I have tried everything I can think of to clean those doors.
Let’s talk about how the ceiling fan blades get so nasty! I clean them once a month..sometimes once a week due to the black (where is there black in here?) that sticks on the blades like fuzz. The blades are always spinning and no one smokes in here. Where does the stuff come from? The white blades need bleached to be white again. At least I hope that will work! LOL

By: duplessis3

duplessis3 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:41:26 +0000

We have three tents, and three set of poles, none of which belong together. So with all this stuff, (coming from where?) we do not have a complete set.

By: imabug

imabug — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:26:37 +0000

I had a ceramic dog food dish appear in the trunk of my car. No idea where it came from and nobody I knew admitted to putting it there.