Enemy of Entropy

I’m Allergic to Our Bedroom

20 August 2008, 11:55 pm. 5 Comments. Filed under Health, Home, Reading.

More specif­i­cally (I hope), some­thing in it. Not Sam, hap­pily, but every time I go in there, I’m all stuffed up within a few minutes.

We keep that room closed and have a win­dow a/​c unit in there, because the house a/​c just doesn’t keep up so well.1 I’m won­der­ing if there’s some­thing about the air not cir­cu­lat­ing to the rest of the house that’s caus­ing dust to set­tle in there?

The cat is sel­dom allowed in the room at all, and we don’t have any other pets. There aren’t any plants in the room.

We haven’t been using the air clean­ers, because I can only get their fil­ters by mail-​​order and just didn’t get around to get­ting new ones. I guess I need to order them and see if that helps.

Bah.

In nicer news, the girl and I went to the nice library today. I had gone through my “to-​​read” shelf at Good Reads and requested a bunch of books. More of them than I expected came through all at one time, where­upon I learned that they allow a max­i­mum of 75 books to be checked out at once. Whoops! I had to put two back.

I have plenty to read now, though!

1 We had to put a unit in Katie’s room, too – it really wasn’t fac­tored in to the ton­nage on the a/​c unit when some­one fin­ished a for­mer garage, and it doesn’t have enough ducts. Now we need one for the guest room.

5 Comments »

  1. avatar Hope. 21 August 2008, 1:41 am

    I sorry your bed­room is giv­ing you problems!

    I won­der if dust is build­ing up because the room stays closed. Or if you’re react­ing to mildew in or on the AC unit — some­times they stay damp and grow nastiness.

    Wow I thought I had a lot of library books out :)

  2. avatar Matti. 21 August 2008, 8:36 am

    From time to time I look here by and read the always inter­est­ing and well writ­ten con­tri­bu­tions. Here I would like to leave gladly a greet­ing from Thuringia in Germany!

  3. avatar Precious Jen. 21 August 2008, 9:41 am

    My bet is mold and mildew in the AC unit.

  4. avatar Art. 21 August 2008, 10:00 am

    Like Hope, I’m won­der­ing if the win­dow unit has a washable/​replaceable fil­ter that needs to be cleaned.

    The other pos­si­bil­ity that springs to mind is that the humid­ity level might be dif­fer­ent — I find some­times that can make me abruptly stuff up, but it usu­ally passes.

  5. avatar cyn. 21 August 2008, 1:32 pm

    I’ll ask Sam to look at the unit again. He said there wasn’t any­thing that needed to be cleaned, but you’re prob­a­bly right. Mebbe I can find the man­ual online.

    Hi, Matti, and wel­come! I looked at your blog, which seems nice, but I’m afraid I’m mono­lin­gual and can’t read it. :-)

 

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