I bought a new apartment at the end of summer and thought I’d only have to renovate it to fit my taste.
A month after moving in, I started having allergic rhinitis that wasn’t clearing up even after I took my medication.
I finally knew the problem when my brother came around and mentioned a faint musty smell in the house, especially when you moved close to the air vents. I had mold in my air conditioner. The house has a central air conditioner, and I hadn’t bothered to check on it when buying it, so I wasn’t surprised that there was an issue with it. I did a quick online search on what to do, but most people warned that getting rid of the mold on my own could be a disaster and that the best way to sort out the problem would be to hire an expert. I could have hired a mold expert, but a neighbor told me to try to get the damage inspected by an air conditioning professional before trying a mold expert. I got the contact for the local air conditioning business that provides a/c service to most of the houses in the area I live in, and they sent over an a/c repairman. The inspection revealed that I had extensive mold growth in the a/c, and a simple change of the air conditioning filter would not help, and a new air conditioning install would be cheaper than a clean-up. I made an appointment with the air conditioning company to have a new a/c setup installed by their expert. The experience with mold was horrible, but I got much more than a/c care. I got an HVAC upgrade because the new one has a digital thermostat that has improved climate control around the house.