My wife is obsessed with burning candles.
Whenever there’s a birthday or holiday coming up, she always asks for candles. Even if I save and buy her a nice piece of jewelry as a gift, she still expects a candle every year regardless. I don’t begrudge her of this wish, especially since often these candles smell absolutely amazing. Sometimes I go to a special candle store in the mall that is owned by a family. They make all of their inventory at home and also sell their products online in addition to their store in the mall. They’re more expensive than normal candles at department stores, but the quality is incomparable. Especially since a lot of traditional store bought candles are full of chemicals and parabens. The natural homemade candles lack all of these dangerous adulterants. The problem with my wife’s candle burning habit is the layer of soot that is left all over the house. Sometimes it gets on the walls, shelves, and other surfaces exposed to their HVAC air current. Inevitably this means that it collects inside the heating and cooling system as well. Aside from getting into the inside surfaces of your ductwork, the candle soot can also accumulate on the precious evaporator coil inside your a/c’s air handler. This is the one issue I can’t seem to shake in my mind when I go to the store to get my wife more candles to burn. I don’t want to shorten the lifetime of our HVAC system, but both my wife and I love the candles so much that it would be hard to stop.