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Posted by jamesgangnc on December 2, 2007, 9:03 am
Oh, and one more thing. Next time make sure your house is as sealed up as
possible and turn off all your air handlers. It's pretty much impossible to
decently clean most duct work.
> And of your four responses, this is the only one worth reading.
>
>> 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
>>> -
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
>>
>> 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].
>>
>> --
>> Zyp
>>
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