Sucking the House

Today we're having the air ducts cleaned.  (Spring break is a glamorous time of year.)  We should have had it done years ago, really.  We've had the house painted, put in new wood floors, and had carpeting done twice since we've moved in. All this puts extra debris into the ventilation system.  Plus, we have no idea if the previous owner ever cleaned the ducts. 

I do know that the house gets dusty quickly.  All this points toward dirty ventilation ducts.

As I write this, a pair of workmen are bustling about the house doing arcane things with long hoses connected to a very strange truck in the driveway:



The puffy things poking up with tumescent urgency are vacuum filters.
The cats were unceremoniously stuffed into the basement store room, where they've since folded themselves into tiny singularities and vanished. Nothing gets more freaked than a cat who sees a giant hose snake through the house.

And soon we'll have clean air.  Yay!




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