Furnace air filter

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What's a MERV?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_efficiency_reporting_value

51st Ave

Our air filters are 16x25 Merv 8 Honeywell FC100A1029 (http://www.airmechanicalinc.com/honeywell_filter_fc100a1029_16x25_2_pack.html)

http://www.honeywell.com/yourhome

http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=FC100A1029

http://www.airmechanicalinc.com/Honeywell_Enviracare_Elite_F100-F150-F-25_Media_Air_Filter_Replacement.html (even though that is MERV 10. I had trouble finding MERV 8 for sale anywhere and Air Mechanical is directly linked from the Honeywell site as a trusted source of replacement filters.)

Date
4/1/2008 Changed filter after about a year. Used last filter on hand. Bought 2 more filters.
12/18/2008 Changed filter after the fireplace put a lot of smoke into the system. Took out a MERV 8, put in the first MERV 10.
1/1/2010? Changed filter after furnace stopped working for renter.
 ? Hopefully some changes were unrecorded
3/30/2013 Completely filthy. Went to Home Depot for replacements.
2/21/2014 Some dust bunnies, but not clogged. Used last spare, need to buy more.
12/8/2014 clearly dirty and time to replace. Used 16x25x1 since that is all that I could get from Home Depot. It doesn't fit perfectly and I should probably order the right filters... The 16x25x1 filters were about $20 each.

Filter.jpg

48th Ave

I think the right part for this furnace is the 20x25x4 Merv 13:

Date
3/1/2010 Replaced the 20x25x1 with a 20x25x4 Merv 12