A Musty Citrus County Coil Is Not Always a Dirty Filter Story
The filter is new. The start-up still smells like a wet closet.
We still open Crystal River and Homosassa air handlers after a filter change that did not kill the musty smell. The cardboard was clean. The coil was not. Citrus County humidity keeps a dirty coil wet. That odor is the coil story, not a reminder to buy another filter this week. We already wrote about musty air before jumping to a whole IAQ package. This visit is coil versus filter, one handler at a time.
Coil and drain work sits with A/C repair and installation. Duct odor after the coil is clean belongs under air duct repair or air duct cleaning when debris is the finding. A dehumidifier conversation stays on dehumidifier repair and installation after the coil is honest.
Open the handler, do not guess from the hallway
Photograph the filter and, if you can see it safely, the coil face. Note whether the smell is only at start-up. A wet drain pan with a clean filter is still a coil and drain job. Heat pump houses use the same order. See heat pump repair and installation when the outdoor unit is the louder symptom.
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What to send
Filter photos, odor timing, and whether a drain recently overflowed. Contact us or call (352) 621-3444. More reading is on the main blog.
Smell a musty Citrus County coil as a coil. A new filter will not rinse what is already growing on the wet metal.
Musty at start-up with a new filter?
Send coil and filter photos when you contact us. We will look at the wet metal, not only the cardboard.