Posted by fixerupper on June 12, 2013 at 19:10:44 from (100.42.82.30):
We have a window air conditioner in our house that's in the wall between the living room and the attached garage. Last summer it seemed like Marilyn was having a lot of respiratory and sinus infections and I seemed to have a lot of discharge down the back of the throat all summer. Skip ahead to last week when we took the cover off it and fired it up for the first time this season. Marilyn started stuffing up and ended up with a full blown respiratory infection that required a tough antibiotic to kick. So the other day we put two-and-two together and decided it was time to pull the air conditioner out of the wall and clean it out. This morning I had a neighbor help get it out and carried to the shop for a cleaning. After I took a few pieces of tin off I looked down at the fan and all I saw was black. The chamber around the squirrel cage fan was lined with white high density foam and it was pure black with about 1/6" of what I think was black mold. The fan itself was also caked with this stuff. I soaked it with soapy water, scrubbed and the rinsed and vacuumed the water back out while I rinsed. Did the same thing to the evaporator and condenser. When I scrubbed it the black gook was kind of beady, meaning it washed away in little beads and pieces instead of just a muddy stream. All in all it took a couple of hours. After I was done I had emptied the one gallon shop vac six times.
It's slick as a whistle now and ready to go back in, but I'm wondering if having it in that wall between the living room and garage had something to do with the suspected mold. It never sees sunlight or has the wind blowing on it and in the winter I put a cover box over the living room side that completely seals it up.
Maybe this cleaning is going to have to be an annual event from now on. Do any of you guys and gals here in the midwest have this problem with a window air conditioner? Is there anything besides bleach that we can spray in there to prevent mold? The condensation is draining away well so there never is any water sitting in the bottom. Marilyn is going to have her hip replacement surgery in 11 days so she needs to be healthy real soon. When she gets home from the hospital she's gonna want a cool house that doesn't make her sick. Jim
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