Once upon a time a Lexington Kentucky Home Inspection Seller told me, when I pulled the Air Conditioning filter out of the inside unit, "I just changed the filter. My Realtor told me you'd be checking that so I changed it so you'd see I take care of the unit."
Huh! I don't take the filter out to look at it. It's a liar. I don't care to hear what it has too say. I'm looking at the AC Coil and the blower fan and the compartment, along with a few other things that aren't relevant to this post.
When I find coils that look like the one below (clogged with animal hair), or blower fan blades that look like the one below (caked with dirt), I'm ready to recommend that the coils and fan be removed and cleaned.
Blocked coils and dirty fan blades aren't energy efficient, costing you extra money you don't need to be spending. Ensure that you change your filters regularly and frequently. I prefer to change mine monthly.
And talking about mold inside the unit, just makes it worse. Though you can bet I'll be telling my client about it being there. While it isn't important to me, it is to some of my clients. Not to say anything about the home inspector who was sued (and settled for several thousand dollars) for not mentioning about this amount of mold inside the unit.
Note: The only way to positively identify mold is through sampling & laboratory testing which I choose NOT to do. Both the EPA and the CDC say (for the largest majority of us) that you don't need to know what kind of mold it is, you just need to get rid of it.
But, talking about one day wonder mold testing inspectors taking several hundred dollars of your money to tell you something you don't need to know will have to be the subject of another post. Not this one.
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