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Posted by Zyp on December 2, 2007, 2:46 am
Walter R. wrote:
> We had some smoke/soot damage in our house in the recent SoCa
> wildfires.
> Our insurers (State Farm) had the interior of the house cleaned and
> washed by professional cleaners.
>
> After they cleaned the house, they had a commercial duct cleaning
> outfit (Airtek) clean the heating ducts.
>
> A few hours after they had cleaned the ducts, we noticed an unsightly
> layer of black, gritty soot coming out of our heating vents. It was
> noticeable on paper that had been lying on the floor under the vents.
>
> Airtek has been back four times and kept cleaning the ducts, and
> still there is soot coming our of the vents. Now there is less gritty
> soot coming out, but more small patches of thin plastic overlaid with
> soot.
> Any ideas what the problem might be?
>
>
> --
> Walter
> www.rationality.net
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To be honest, if you have / had flexible ducting, and the smoke has
permiated the duct, you will need your local HVAC company to come out the
replace all accesable ducting. You'll never, I mean never get the smell
out.
If the duct cleaning company used a flexible spiral brush, it likely damaged
some of the ducting [plastic with soot].
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Zyp
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