I showed him all of the mildew that was popping up around the apartment and asked for his help with these failing indoor conditions.The heating, cooling, and air quality control specialist told me exactly what I thought I would here…
I kept telling my roommate that running the air conditioning unit more often was not helping with the situation. We already had the central thermostat turned down to 64 degrees on a daily basis. Now, he had gone out and purchased a very small portable AC device to supposedly assist with the removal of more unwanted indoor humidity. The problem was, our attempts to manage the indoor humidity were not working. All we were doing was driving up our monthly energy bills so that our utilities were becoming completely unaffordable. Meanwhile, I knew that we were tearing apart the central air conditioning unit which was not designed to run 24/7 at maximum capacity. But no matter what I tried to tell the guy, he refused to believe me that there was a limit to what modern air conditioning could accomplish. Finally, I called out our local heating, cooling, and ventilation specialist for a professional consultation with our terrible indoor air quality. I showed him all of the mildew that was popping up around the apartment and asked for his help with these failing indoor conditions.The heating, cooling, and air quality control specialist told me exactly what I thought I would here… We didn’t need more air conditioning, we needed a separate dehumidification system to work alongside our air conditioning unit. This way, we were removing more of the terrible humidity without requiring our AC unit to perpetually operate. This would extend the life of our AC system… And hopefully both of us, by removing a lot of that mildew.