I’ve always been the sort of person who likes to keep a clean house.
It just has always made sense to me to keep things clean and organized.
I grew up rather privileged and my mom had a maid to do the cleaning. Mom was busy at luncheons at the club so she had no time for cleaning. Meanwhile, I was a bit of a nerd who did nothing but study inside the central air conditioning for that big house. Not sure that I wasn’t even closer to the maid than I was my own mother. And perhaps that’s why I’ve always been so clean and organized. I used to follow the maid around when I was little, pretending to do all the cleaning. So you can imagine the horror for me when I watched a dust ball thing fall from the HVAC air duct in my living room. At first, I thought maybe two glasses of wine were one too many. But then I saw it again as I was looking right at the air duct. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and was afraid that there was something terribly wrong with the HVAC system. I called the emergency service line at the HVAC company as it was after hours. They told me that this was not an HVAC repair emergency but signed me up for ductwork cleaning and ductwork resealing. This was the first time I had ever heard about those services. But now that I’ve had the ductwork cleaning done, it has taken the cleanliness in our home to a whole new level. Ductwork cleaning will now be part of spring cleaning every year.