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If you really think about it, cleaning your ductwork really isn’t usually all that necessary.

The ductwork in your ventilation system is a closed circuit.

That means that there is really no way for dust or dirt to get inside of it most of the time. As a general rule, the interior of your air ducts should be spotlessly clean most of the time. The only time that I would say that this is not the case would be when you were doing some kind of home improvement project or something like that. If you have a whole lot of sawdust, drywall dust, or some other kind of fine dust, then that stuff is probably going to get sucked into your HVAC system and make its way through your ventilation system. What you will find is that you get a fresh layer of that dust every single time your heating or cooling system kicks on and this can be a huge pain. If you’re someone who likes to keep a really clean house, then you are definitely going to hate having your heating or cooling system run after you have a home renovation! You can clean it and clean it, and the dust just keeps coming back every single time your furnace or air conditioner kicks on. This happened to us a couple of years ago when we did a remodeling job on our great room. I felt like I was never going to be able to stop cleaning up dust in our house. Every single time that I would wake up in the morning, there would be a fresh layer of it everywhere. That’s when I ended up getting my ductwork professionally cleaned and it was worth every penny.

Central heating

I don’t know why it is, but I have always really hated space heaters. I think that they are just terrible. Not only do I hate the way that they look, but I also hate the way that they are a danger to people and property. I know that they have made advances in space heater technology over the years, but I still think that something that plugs into a wall and produces heat on purpose just can’t be good. I really don’t understand why people want to have so many space heaters placed around their homes during the winter. This is usually something that I see in older people’s homes. I don’t know if they think that they are saving money by using electric space heaters that they plug into the wall instead of their central furnace system, but I just don’t think that it works. Honestly, plugging in a whole bunch of space heaters that run on electricity probably actually makes the heating bill higher than it would be if they would just turn their thermostat system up a little bit. This is exactly what I keep trying to tell my grandma, but she will just not listen to me. Back when I was a little kid, I burned my hand on his space heater and I have had a vendetta against him ever since. You just can’t convince me that a space heater is the way to go when you are trying to heat your house in the winter. I honestly feel like any other heating source would be better than a space heater.

 

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Last year whenever my wife was gardening, she ended up ruining our HVAC system accidentally.

She was working out in the back on the garden behind the garage.

She loves working on flower beds and stuff like that during the summer and she is constantly messing around with different kinds of plantings and vegetation. Every year, as soon as the weather starts heating up outside,my wife gets out her gardening gloves and goes to work. She loves getting her hands dirty more than any other woman that I’ve ever met. I like that about her, but last year, she really did a number on our HVAC system because of her love for gardening! She was back there in the back of the garage working when a sudden rainstorm started. Instead of putting everything away, she just covered it all up with a big tarp instead. Then she ran inside, not noticing that the tarp was partially on top of the exterior part of our central air conditioning system! Later on that day, we turned the air conditioning on because it got really hot and muggy after the rain stopped. Unfortunately for us, the exterior air conditioning unit somehow sucked the tark into it. It got wrapped around the fan blades on the inside of the AC unit and made them completely seize up. It ruined our air conditioning unit and we had to purchase a completely new one. I like to call that my wife’s most expensive gardening project that she has ever done. A new air conditioning system is not cheap, that’s for sure!

 

Furnace filter

My sales team has done a really great job meeting their sales goals recently and so I wanted to do something to reward them for all of their hard work. I decided to replace the entire heating and cooling system in the office because I had heard a lot of the employees complaining about the temperatures in the office. I thought that it would be a good way to boost morale if I did something about the HVAC system. So I closed the office down for a week and I had everyone work from home while I had a commercial HVAC company come in and get to work. My employees really had no idea at all what I was doing while they were all working from home. I couldn’t wait for them to come back into the office to see the great surprise that I had waiting for them there. The commercial HVAC company that I hired to do the heating and cooling system reboot did a really fantastic job on the HVAC system in the office. We even ended up with all new ventilation ducts. Now, the indoor air quality in the office building is better than it has ever been before and my employees are all thrilled about it. I have never seen so many people be happy about a new HVAC system before. They are also all really loving the air purification system that we installed. I think that everyone is going to stay much healthier now. We can probably save a lot of money on sick days now!

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