Found in both commercial and residential units, dirty sock syndrome can take a state-of-the-art heating and cooling system owner straight to their junior high gym locker days. According to Casey1230, a forum user complaining in May 2011 about the new system he or she had installed, this trip down memory lane wasn’t a pleasant one. The user had an earful ready for the unit’s salesperson and didn’t appear optimistic about the company’s HVAC technician coming to look at the problem the next day.
Casey1230 punctuated the complaint with, “I can’t believe that I spent $10,000 for a new system only to have my house stink.”
Further down the thread, another dirty sock syndrome sufferer, jmarie, let the HVAC contractors who installed her geothermal system have it.