Thread: is it always better to use a thicker filter in furnace?
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DerbyDad03 wrote:



/\/\/\/\ -- that's a 1" thick pleated filter

I can't do it with my keyboard, but extend those pleats to 2" and
decrease the angle so each 2" pleat is just as wide as a 1" pleat, and
you've got twice the surface area.

Yeah, that part I get. Reducing the resistance is the part I don't.
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