I love my wife to death, but I’d be a liar if I claimed that we had no conflict between us.
Sometimes it’s as trivial as inadvertently annoying her while mindlessly clicking my pen at my desk as I’m reading work emails.
But it’s not just small annoyances that pit us against each other, at times it’s family conflicts or issues related to our work schedules. One thing that my wife loves to do daily is burn candles. Before I learned about soot deposits, I thought that candles were the greatest thing in the world. They smell amazing, especially the soy-based candles with wood wicks that my wife was buying last year. However, it was the discovery of soot on indoor surfaces that pushed me to tell my wife that we need to pump the brakes on burning so many candles. It’s one thing to find soot silhouettes on a white-painted wall because options in front are blocking the soot build up, but it takes one a completely different set of issues when your HVAC technician is tell you that he sees soot all over the inside of your ventilation system and in your air handler. Getting soot deposits off an evaporator coil is no easy task, even if you’re using the special aerosol cleaning sprays made for evaporator coils. I had to pay a pretty penny to get the air handler completely cleaned out and to have all of the soot removed. After he was finished, he had a garbage bag full of paper towels with soot stains on it. I told my wife that we had no choice but to cut back on our candle burning. We can’t afford to wreck the ventilation system and air handler in the process.