Whenever I’m cleaning the ductwork out for my HVAC customers, I always end up finding weird stuff in the ductwork.
This was not something that I ever thought about when I first went to school to become a heating and cooling technician.
No one in my HVAC certification classes ever mentioned anything like this, so the first time that it happened to me, I was really shocked. I had no clue that anyone would ever even think about hiding things in the ductwork at their homes. This thought had never even crossed my mind before I became an HVAC technician. One of the things that you end up doing a lot as an HVAC technician is professionally cleaning peoples ductwork. When you do that, you have to open up the ends of the main line and then make sure that you seal them back up completely or even better than they were when you first started the job. This is where people mess up a lot whenever they try to do the job themselves. Anyway, a lot of times the ductwork can become like a big black hole for people. They hide things in their ductwork and then forget that it’s in there, or they have kids and pets who do it for them. It’s easier than you might think to get that stuff out of the ductwork, but it seems that most of the time, people are scared to do it themselves and they just call us. Once I found a bag of money in the ductwork. Another time, I found an old clown costume. That one was really creepy!