You're talking about spraying the blower wheel with beach? or hitting the coils with bleach? Its weird the one in my bedroom has this funky smell its hard to describe like a mixture of dirt, plastic and metal. I just looked up at the blower wheel and the things completely clean spot free while the one in my other room is covered in nasty shit. What could be causing the funk smell?
Is there water pooled inside it? A lot of water condenses on the coils. But I meant spray as much as possible, coils and wheel. Might be able to sit it on its back and pour something in there and swish it around. Also peroxide might work. Less smelly than bleach. I never tried it myself. If there's gunk you should probably try to keep the air filtered in the room with a hepa air purifier.
. Yup it's a bitch to clean them. Small bottle brush and vacuum once you remove the cover works but it's a pain. Most have a coil dry mode now that helps with removing moisture off the coil after cycle ends, this helps with the wet sock smell.
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Well the issue is getting at it to clean it
, but yup, cleaning the filter (which would let your cat through) is a good start. My unit is 10 years old and never shuts off, the blower has been cleaned once but filters and coil are cleaned quite often .... Well that's a lie lol....not to often, no time, fixing other people's lol.
Yup there's something to be said about a good cheap window unit lol. Way easier to service and way cheaper to buy. Their almost throwaways now, they've gotten so cheap.
That seems to be a low priority when they design this stuff, get the P Eng's out there and have them fix em in the field would be an eye opener. Customers are like WTF, two-three hours to clean my AC, we're at $125 an hour lol.
