Re: How to hire a duct cleaner

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I can add to this. Before having it done make sure all ducts that

you can reach have their seams sealed shut, otherwise the strong

wind that goes through them when being cleaned, shoots dirt out the

seams and into your house. This happened to me, fell right on my

head and in front of my face! All you need to do is take " duct

tape " (surprise) and wrap it around any seam that is not sealed

already or you can wrap whole duct in insulation material and then

seal that with ducttape, that way ducttape won't be right on bare

metal where it can be hard to get off.

Other surprising thing, was that I got what I considered top company

reputation-wise in " cleaning " , but was in drapery cleaning and

carpet cleaning but figured the " quality " reputation would carry

over. Instead I found they were using a bag with a large hole in it

to catch the debris in.....no kidding!!!..and it was inside my

basement, not outside house. So, watch them set up and watch them

do their job, and if you see something you don't like, stop them and

call the company, or agree to not continue with job, and get someone

else. In this case, they had no other bag, so he tried holding it

closed with his hand (before that he was okay with it being semi-

open).

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