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Maintenance Guide - Tips for this Summer
Maintaining your home is important to ensure a healthy indoor environment. The following are some recommendations for keeping your home as healthy, durable and energy efficient as it can be.
- Change or clean your air-handling filter.
- Clean and inspect your ventilation system’s filters.
- Clean exhaust fans and vents in bathrooms and kitchen.
- Inspect all outside hoods for debris and blockage. These would include combustion air inlets, dryer exhaust vents, and ventilation inlet and exhaust vents.
- Clean outside grill of air conditioner compressor.
- Inspect grade around perimeter of home for a 5% slope; bring in fill for any areas that have settled.
- Inspect and clean rain gutters.
- Wash and repair window screens.
- Change damper on central humidifier to "off" or "summer" position.
- Clean or replace humidifier pad on central humidifiers.
- Use a humidistat-controlled dehumidifier to monitor interior relative humidity (RH); keep below 50%.
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