I usually change our filters once a week, so I had several options.
I do not like having to climb into the attic, regardless of the reason. I have arachnophobia from living with wolf spiders as well as saucer spiders in our family’s ancient house. A sizable spider landed in our bed one night as I was trying to fall asleep as well as I believe it scarred as well as traumatized myself and others for life. A similar situation happened with a wolf spider a few years later. My parents told myself and others to get the holiday lights out of the attic. When I was climbing the fold-out stairs as well as reaching the opening of the attic, I collided with a sizable spider web that had a frog-sized wolf spider on it. The spider fell on our shirt as well as started climbing to our face before I screamed as well as swatted it away with the back of our hand. I started sobbing as well as nearly fell off the collapsable stairs. It made myself and others never want to climb into an attic ever again. If I had known the was in the attic, I would have considered looking for a unusual home to rent. I moved in a few weeks ago, but I l earned soon enough that not only was our in the attic, but so was the filter tray itself. Often you’ll have an access point for the filter right at the air return on the ceiling if your air handler is in the attic. Garage mounted air handlers usually have the filter tray inside the air handler enclosure. This attic air handler here is almost identical to a garage unit. That means I have to climb into our attic whenever I need to change our Heating as well as A/C filter. I usually change our filters once a week, so I had several options. I could try to get over our fears as well as simply change the filters whenever needed, or I could hire an Heating as well as A/C corporation as well as sign a repair contract. This way a tech will swap out our filters for myself and others whenever they visit for repair calls. It was an easy choice.