We had our ducts and furnace cleaned today. We’ve never done it in the (cough!) two years we’ve been here, and I don’t know if the previous owners ever did it.
Well.
The amount of dust and junk that came out of those ducts was shocking. It was caked on inside the ducts, that’s how bad it was. I’m amazed I’m still alive, and not suffering from lung disease. Ugh. Here’s hoping this will lead to better health, especially as cold/flu season starts up.
The vacuum attached to the ducts near the furnace, and various holes were drilled to allow the cleaning wand to be inserted, blowing the dust towards the vacuum.
This is a plug for one of the smaller holes.
This is the large patch up.
This is (some of) the dust.
I love how you have to make holes in order to get in and clean something properly. There’s something so cavalier about it, so messy, yet so necessary. Sure, you can just use your own vacuum cleaner and try to clean as much as you can, but there’s no way you can really get in there without cutting into the duct.
Jesus accused the Pharisees of having cups that were fastidiously clean on the outside, but no one had ever bothered to clean the inside of the cup. But if you clean the inside, He said, the outside gets clean as well.
Sometimes we resist having the inside of our lives cleaned, because it means some cutting away, some holes made. We’d rather just clean the outside, and live with all that dust on the inside. But if we decide to let go, get a bit messy, but have the inside cleaned, the outside gets cleaned as well.
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