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Destroy Heater & Air Conditioning Filter Odors

24 January, 2011 04:11 CST6CDT

I live in a medium sized apartment that uses both an heater and air conditioner in a single unit.  Cleaning the filters regularly is always a good idea.  However, if you are distracted by odor, mold, or viral health of the filtered air, then the following is a good use of Isopropyl Alcohol, Lavender, and a glass spray bottle.

Make sure the bottle you use for the spritzer is made of glass and of other material that will not corode by the Lavender essential oil or the Isopropyl Alcohol.  You should have luck finding a spray bottle of this type at your local co-op, health food store, or on-line retail store.

I use USP 91% Isopropyl Alcohol, however lower quantities of the active ingredients work just fine.

You may use any species of Lavender, however I would recommend Lavender 40/42 (Lavendula officinalis).  If you want to fill your room with a bolder Lavender aroma, you may want to try a Bulgarian Super species.

You will want to start by filling the spray bottle 1/10 of it's capacity full of the Lavender essential oil.  Yes, this is a lot of Lavender, however just one spray will easily last for several hours as a room deodorant and as a filter cleaning agent and disinfectant.

Fill the rest of the bottle with the Isopropyl Alcohol and give it a good shake.  When you turn on the fan, or your heat/air conditioner is on, spray one too two pumps of the Lavender Alcohol combination into the intake vents.

Random Thought : (edited) - Myside's Spew (myspew.com) has been chugging along for five years as of today! Woofta, time really does fly! Having taken a couple hours to reminisce through the archives, I realize while my content is not applicable to everyone all of the time, I have some pretty damn good information in here.. the search engines seem to like me also.. Happy 5 Years!

Aromatherapy  Article & Comments (4)

furnace filters, air filters for air conditioners, ac filters, filter for ac

It is really good question i think you should judge first your requirement and type of furnace. There are various types of filter in the market. you should take which is easy to change and clean. it is quite good question. http://www.airsponge.com

tilakahuja | 02/02/2011, 04:35 [Reply]

AIR CONITIONER

I’m a big believer in protecting my family against the short and long term effects of VOCs and indoor air pollution. We use normal house hold plants such as Spider Plants throughout our home, have a HepaOne filter in the living. I am focusing on air condition filters how I should maintain filters

TILAK RAJ | 02/20/2011, 08:54 [Reply]

Air conditioner

Permission requested to mention this on FB? giving you credit/blame if someone ruins their filter, of course ;)

marge clark | 05/05/2011, 21:56 [Reply]

Re: Air conditioner

Go ahead Marge. :-)

Myside | 05/06/2011, 04:36 [Reply]

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