Re: Outside air, think bigger

[Guest guest]

I had a Friedrich C60 (90?) unit that I tried running in my brother's

house, which was setting me off. This $450 machine did absolutely

nothing for my symptoms, and I returned it.

The only thing that works 100% of the time for me is sleeping outside,

and even this has become suspect, as I had a bad relapse last month

camping in the southern CA desert during and after some historically

heavy rains.

--- In , " fletch_82000 " <fletch_8@h...>

wrote:

>

>

> Hi Barb,

>

> The various small air cleaners are jokes to me. I had them, but you

> have the right idea about keeping the windows open. I had a number

> small aircleaners in the house along with three small dehumidifiers,

> but after my son had his asthma attack last year Oct 15, I hooked up

> a six inch line from the outside to the suction side of my furnace

> and set the furnace so the fan was running constantly. This changed

> our house's humidity levels very greatly, the three little

> dehumidifiers running 24 hours a day were also jokes when compared

> what bringing in fresh outside air did. Not only that, my son's

> constant stuffed up nose, nightly coughs, and monthly wheezing went

> away overnight. This before we removed the mold in our walls and

> carpets.

>

> We did install a new heat pump and now have an air to air heat

> exchanger with its own whole house HEPA filter. But simply sucking

> in cold outside air was inexpensive and highly effective. We did

> also put a MERV 11 furnace filter in at that time.

>

> Here is a link for an air to air heat exchanger with whole house

> HEPA filtration for just over $800. It can be easily installed on

> the suction side of your furnace and removed when you move out, or

> as a stand alone until you move into another house.

>

> http://nutonesales.com/hepa.html

>

> Fletch

[Guest guest]

I had a Friedrich C60 (90?) unit that I tried running in my brother's

house, which was setting me off. This $450 machine did absolutely

nothing for my symptoms, and I returned it.

The only thing that works 100% of the time for me is sleeping outside,

and even this has become suspect, as I had a bad relapse last month

camping in the southern CA desert during and after some historically

heavy rains.

--- In , " fletch_82000 " <fletch_8@h...>

wrote:

>

>

> Hi Barb,

>

> The various small air cleaners are jokes to me. I had them, but you

> have the right idea about keeping the windows open. I had a number

> small aircleaners in the house along with three small dehumidifiers,

> but after my son had his asthma attack last year Oct 15, I hooked up

> a six inch line from the outside to the suction side of my furnace

> and set the furnace so the fan was running constantly. This changed

> our house's humidity levels very greatly, the three little

> dehumidifiers running 24 hours a day were also jokes when compared

> what bringing in fresh outside air did. Not only that, my son's

> constant stuffed up nose, nightly coughs, and monthly wheezing went

> away overnight. This before we removed the mold in our walls and

> carpets.

>

> We did install a new heat pump and now have an air to air heat

> exchanger with its own whole house HEPA filter. But simply sucking

> in cold outside air was inexpensive and highly effective. We did

> also put a MERV 11 furnace filter in at that time.

>

> Here is a link for an air to air heat exchanger with whole house

> HEPA filtration for just over $800. It can be easily installed on

> the suction side of your furnace and removed when you move out, or

> as a stand alone until you move into another house.

>

> http://nutonesales.com/hepa.html

>

> Fletch