First time ever (40-yr old home), sometime in March 2016.I enjoyed reading the furnace thread a while back and I would now like some opinions on duct cleaning.
When is the last time you had your cooling/heating ducts cleaned? Was it worth it?
Wow, that is amazing. I have read a lot of scams with duct cleaning, so I am very happy to see that there are good, honest ones like the one you had.I bought a foreclosed townhouse for my son and DIL to live in earlier this year. There was no filter on one return and the other was filthy, so I thought a duct cleaning was in order along with HVAC servicing since I didn't know how long it had been that way. I found a company that did both. The duct cleaning guy came out and took a look, showed me that what he could see of the ducts looked clean and it wasn't likely to be worse elsewhere, and suggested I save my money.
We bought a 50 year old house last year, with gas forced air and I don't think the ducts had ever been cleaned. DW got our furnace maintenance co. to come do a cleaning. Disgusting. They showed her before and after in the fan truck. The last people had cats and she said there was enough dust and cat hair in there to make a couple of mannequins out of...