It’s kind of ironic that my sister was trying to improve her air quality at home by cleaning her ductwork system.
She used a cheap vacuum with cheap extensions that didn’t go far.
I mean, personally, I would’ve used a shop-vac if I were going to attempt such a cleaning. Her house was a mess with dirt and dust flying everywhere and everybody had to evacuate the house since the air quality became terrible. Her partner demanded that she stop and find a better solution. I told him that she needed to call the Heating and A/C professionals to take care of the duct cleaning for him. I provided him the number for one of the best Heating and A/C companies in town, and she called them up. It’s silly that they all had to check into a hotel while the professionals were coming to take care of the ductwork cleaning. Usually, people don’t have to do that, so that was just an additional expense she could have avoided by not trying to do something she didn’t know how to take care of, and the professionals came out, brought their specialized vacuum component with certain connectments. They snaked the ductwork and took pictures before and after the job was done. The ductwork was terrible and even those gentlemen could not believe my sister tried to tackle it on her own. They explained that some of the contaminants that build-up in the ductwork can be toxic, so it’s entirely something that needs to be handled by the professionals no matter what. I hope she learned her lesson from this experience.