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Topic: HVAC supply/return vent cleaning
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Jason Black
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From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 08-25-2002 02:58 PM
An often overlooked item of maintainence is cleaning the HVAC system supply and return vents in your building. It is far beyond time for mine to be done, yet I can find no-one with the experience or proper "know-how" to get this accomplished in a 'cost efficient' manner. If *any* of you out there have any insight of a somewhat easy method of cleaning dust/minor mildew buildup from a supply/return register (vent) in a 25-30' ceiling, please let me know. We have an A'Frame extension ladder that will get us up to where we need to be if we used a vacuum method, but seems that we'd have to have a very high HP vac. to pull thru a 30'+ hose (at ceiling level). I plan to have whomever takes on this task spray the supply registers with a 50/50 water/bleach mix to kill help kill off any mildew/mold that is present. I figure in doing so, the units themselves won't be starving for air (on the return side anyway) and overall fresh air circulation should improve enough to be noticed. Any and all hints/tips/advice are welcomed. Thanks!
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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1723
From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 08-26-2002 08:14 AM
Thanks guys. I'm familiar with Carolina Cooling, as they do my backflow preventor recert's each year. My regular HVAC folks are working up something right now to present to me (pricewise). Scaffolding is really the only true *safe* way to go, I knew that, but in the interest of both time and money, it may not be an option. Not that I want to have anyone doing it in an unsafe manner, but setup and tear down time of scaffolding in each house to clean each of the supply/returns would be quite entailed. I'll keep looking here for more suggestions, as many more people should hit the site today being the first of the workweek for many folks. Well, regular folks, not us "exhibitionists" ![](http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/eek.gif) At any rate I'll give Carloina Cooling a call and see what they may have to offer. Thanks again! Forgot to mention, we do chnage filters regularly. Being 1 mile off the beach menas chnaging out every month during from May-Sept. The fall/winter months don't dirty up the filters as much for some odd reason.
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