I was quite surprised when I started hearing something running around in the ductwork.
- It was the fall season and I was already thinking about getting my heating plan diagnosed.
I didn’t want to have a bunch of dead critters in my ducttoil so I called the HVAC supplier and told them about what was going on. They proposed that I reach out to a pest control supplier first before having our ductwork plan cleaned. They said there had to be somewhere where the pests were getting into the ductwork and that would have to be sealed. They also said with an opening to the ductwork, that meant there was leakage that would be making our energy costs go up whenever I used the HVAC system. I thought the energy costs were a little extravagant towards the end of the summer time season. So I had a pest control lady come out and she knew it was squirrels that were prancing around in the ductwork. She said they were entirely setting themselves up for winter time with food storage and all. They would be storing nuts in the ductwork if they could even though she said the HVAC supplier would take all that crap out when they did the ductwork cleaning. She had me turn on the plan fan as she sprayed a sleeping agent into the ductwork that would knock the squirrels out. Then she would be able to pull them out of the ductwork plan with her vacuum tool. She said it was a fairly gentle tool that wouldn’t hurt the squirrels plus they would be released back into the wild. I was just glad when the squirrels were gone, but now I need the HVAC pros to take care of the rest.