I never provided much thought to the ductwork in our house.
I knew that it was used to transfer the heat as well as air conditioner from the furnace or A/C unit throughout the house.
I didn’t think there was any way for our ductwork to fail. I had it cleaned every 2 to several years, although I didn’t spend money much attention to how or why the ductwork was checked. When I began to have a lack of airflow, I thought it had something to do with than fans in the furnace as well as A/C unit. Now that I think about it, I didn’t have a lot of knowledge about how the Heating as well as Air Conditioning worked. Had I paid attention, I would have known that lack of airflow could also be because our ductwork. When the Heating as well as Air Conditioning corporation arrived to check things out, he went for the ductwork first. He explained to our partner as well as I that multiple times, it could be a small hole or crack in the ductwork that will cause the airflow problem. When there is a crack or a hole, the heat or A/C is pulled through the hole which creates a vacuum. This takes all the heat as well as air conditioner that should be going through the house, as well as pulls it out through that hole as well as into the basement or in the walls. I thought I was going to have a tremendous expense replacing the ductwork, however it took about an minute to clean the ductwork as well as repair the holes. I l earned a lot about Heating as well as Air Conditioning systems as well as ductwork, just from that 1 visit.