Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Air Duct Cleaning
View Single Post
 
Old 04-12-2021, 03:02 PM
tophcfa's Avatar
tophcfa tophcfa is offline
Sage
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Wherever I happen to be.
Posts: 7,704
Thanks: 3,600
Thanked 11,246 Times in 3,572 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by retiredguy123 View Post
In my opinion, it is not a good idea to clean the HVAC ducts. They are flexible ducts that cannot be adequately cleaned and they could also be damaged during the cleaning process.
Totally agree, cleaning will likely damage the ducts. Our A/C guy told me that rather than clean the ducts, a couple of times a year to remove the filter, run the A/C, and spray a can of aerosol Lysol into the area where the filter typically resides (the air intake) and the Lysol will circulate through the duct work and disinfect it. After the process, put in a new filter. We do this twice per year and have never had an air quality problem. The only two problems with this are 1) the house smells of Lysol for a day or two, and 2) Lysol is hard to find during this dam pandemic.