Although a lot of people do springtime cleaning every year to get rid of dust and dirt in hard to reach areas, I like to do this again in September as well.
This gives me an opportunity to get the house ready for the winter since it might get too freezing to go into the attic or the crawl area under the house.
I also like to clean my garage and my tool shed at this time as well. It’s nice to have a clean slate at home when moving into winter, especially since my energy levels are always lower when it’s extremely freezing outside. Whenever this happens to be the case, I don’t like the thought of spending various hours on the weekend doing house chores, especially if I guess that I’ll be freezing in the process. One chore that is essential to complete before it gets too freezing outside is the burn-off process for my electric furnace. Since an electric furnace is simply a heated metal coil that you pass air over, that coil naturally builds up microbial content as it sits unused in your heating and air conditioning plan during the warmer months of the year. If you have gone all of the summer without using your furnace, it is naturally going to smell a little when you go to use it again in the autumn. That’s why people like me like to turn the furnace on ahead of needing it and let it run for a few hours on constant recirculation. This gives the heating coil an opportunity to burn off any buildup from throughout the year, leaving your furnace without any odors once the process is complete.