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Originally Posted by azcindy
Today Sun Kool came out for the first maintenance after joining the Kool Club (I bought pre-owned). The house / air conditioner is 6 years old. The technician showed me there is "environmental gunk" (white color) inside the air handler and inside the blower fan. He recommended they install a "PROformance High intensity DUAL twin tube UV germicidal air purifier with odor control" for $2200. He says if I don't take care of it, the gunk will keep building and can lead to allergy and worse problems for the household. This is all new to me (being from California and Arizona with low humidity). For now I told him no and just clean it the best they can manually this time but I would do research. Any insight on this or are they just pushing products on me?
Thanks,
Cindy
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They are pushing unneeded products. I fell for this from 15 years ago. Not only was it expensive but also needed added maintenance when the bulb burned out. No change to air in the house.
The air that goes through the air handler comes from your house and outside. The inside air has already been precooled so is most economical to recycle. All of the air is filtered and then run through the condenser where excess moisture is removed. That moisture is drained from the AC. The environmental gunk is likely calcium deposits. They make it sound like pathogens but they can't prove it. If your AC requires it UV wouldn't all units require it".
The environmental Gunk is BS.