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 our ductwork so I called the heating and air conditioning business and told them about what was going on, but they advised that I reach out to a pest control business first before having our ductwork plan cleaned. They said there had to be anywhere 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 my utility bills go up whenever I used the HVAC system. I thought the utility bills were a little extravagant towards the end of the warm season season, but so I had a pest control person come out and he one gained it was squirrels that were prancing around in the ductwork, and he said they were undoubtedly setting themselves up for wintertime with food storage and all. They would be storing nuts in the ductwork if they could even though he said the HVAC business would take all that crap out when they did the ductwork cleaning. He had me turn on the plan fan as he sprayed a sleeping agent into the ductwork that would knock the squirrels out. Then he would be able to pull them out of the ductwork plan with his vacuum tool. He said it was a fairly gentle tool that wouldn’t hurt the squirrels and they would be released back into the wild. I was just glad when the squirrels were gone, however now I need the heating plus air conditioning pros to take care of the rest.