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New thread for a different topic unrelated to chairs. I just got a new apartment and the ventilation in here really sucks. Like it is super stuffy.
I've already bought an air purifier, and my air c02 monitor is on the way.
I've already asked the apartment landlords to come in to clean out the vents, because i think that's a big part of the problem. But I would love to get some thoughts here from people who faced this problem in the past.
This is my throwaway comment that isn't an answer to your question, sorry.
I bought an air purifier and an air quality monitor for my house. So much insight! It makes me constantly worry about the air quality in rooms that aren't in my house now.
In the future we'll look back on this time in history and think it's insane that people used to walk into rooms and breathe even though they had no idea what was in the air.
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What specifically do you mean by "stuffy" ? hot ? humid? smelly?
When you say vents, what type of vents? Heating ? cooling ? both ? Where do the vents go? Do they connect to an air handler inside your apartment? Or into some shared system? Do the vents have dampers? Are they open?
Have you checked filters on said air handler? Filter could also be on the return (which is a larger vent)
So by stuffy, its a combination of hot and just dusty. But the main thing is it just doesn't feel like there is a large amount of airflow coming from outside, as it just always feels a little hard to breathe and my nose always feel dry. I never had this problem in my old apartment.
As further evidence of air not coming from outside, I'm in San Francisco, and when I walk outside, it be chilly out. And the moment I walk into my apartment I get a blast of warm air, which strikes me as like I'm not getting enough outside air inside. And this was not the case in my old apartment whose temperature mapped pretty closely to the outside temperature.
As for vents in the new apartment, I see a few vents in my apartment, and I asked a maintenance guy if those were vents that came from the outside but due to new management in my building, the maintenance guy had only been working here for 3 days and had no idea what kind of air vents were in my apartment. So it is unclear if these are for heating, cooling, both, or to just have more airflow.
The only thing were fairly certain is there a large Amana AC/Heating unit next to the wall near the outside. Kind of looks like this one on Amazon, we think this air comes directly outside, but we can't confirm it.
As for dampers, I have no idea where to check for that, would that be at the opening of the vent? Or would it be somewhere in the ductwork?
And for filters, we did find some filters on the AC Unit, which we did clean out cause it was pretty nasty, and just generally cleaned out the AC unit writ large. And the air does feel cleaner, but I still don't feel like I'm getting enough airflow if that makes sense.
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