This is a pretty gross story, but I feel like I need to tell someone just so I can warn them about what might happen if you don’t pay attention to your furnace during the summer in the fall.
I know that most of us do not pay that much attention to our furnace units during the summer or the first part of the fall when the weather is still warm.
I mean, it only makes sense for us to be thinking about other things during the summertime when the weather is warm outside. I know that personally, I think more about my air conditioning system during the summer than I ever do about my heating system. I guess that’s just human nature and so that’s what most people do. But sometimes, you should really think about your furnace unit, even when it’s warm outside. That’s because bad things could be happening within your furnace during the off season when you aren’t using it, and you could end up like my mom did! Whenever she went to turn her furnace unit on for the first time after a summer and fall without using it, she kept smelling a terrible smell that was coming from her heating vents. It got to be so bad that she ended up calling the HVAC company to see if they could come and figure out what the problem was. It turned out that there was a family of mice living inside of her furnace and when the furnace fired up, it roasted the mice. That’s what was making the terrible smell!