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Hot take: people keep buying new air filters when their old one just needs a $4 rinse
I run a small shop in Ohio and I see this all the time. Folks come in with a furnace filter that is only 3 months old, caked in dust, and they shell out $25 for a new one without a second thought. I have been washing my own reusable filters in the sink with dish soap for six years and they still catch everything. A buddy of mine tossed his every 30 days for a decade, then switched to rinse and reuse and his yearly filter bill dropped from $300 to basically nothing. What filters are you all running that actually hold up to being washed over and over?
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williamschmidt21d ago
Washing them sounds good until you look at what actually happens. Rinsing a filter can push dust deeper into the pleats and mess up the fibers, so it stops catching the fine stuff that wrecks your blower motor. Saving a few bucks on filters is nothing compared to a $600 repair bill.
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