After we moved into the bungalow, my wife Bess started feeling sick.
- She was always prone to allergy attacks, but this was on another level! It was such a shame, because she was so excited to move into this place.
It’s on the gentle slope of a hill, overlooking a long, placid lake and a wide open plain of orchards. Truly a stunning landscape, and now it was our permanent view of the world! The air quality in this area was pretty good, and we could not figure out why Bess was having such an ill reaction to this place. Finally I took off an air grate to look into one of the air ducts, and there was our answer. First of all, the sides and floor of the ductwork was thick with ancient dust, who knows how long it had been collecting there? Second of all, there were hundreds of little pawprints in the dust meaning that at some point there had been animals living in the air ducts. I immediately called a local cleaning service and asked if they did deep cleaning of the ductwork. They referred me to an HVAC contractor, who had the tools and the skills for a total cleaning of all the air ducts and vents. Since the air ducts had not been cleaned in years, and there had been an animal presence in them, it was recommended that we have all the ductwork sterilized. It was not cheap, but once the ductwork was cleaned out, Bess got back to feeling like herself again.