You'll never get the ducts cleaned, not by any method. Using rags and trying
to pull them through is an exercise in frustration (your rags will snag on
every screw, assuming your ducts are screwed together) and you'll never
really get them clean. Duct cleaning companies that would do a thorough job
would most likely cost almost as much as a new duct system ...


"anita" wrote in message
...
Hello,
We just bought a house recently its aboiut 25 years old and needless to
say
has a lot of work TBD.

We've discovered mice/rat droppings in the house and I am terrified that
they are living in the ducts. I am working on an comprehensive pest
elimination program (the pest control companies I spoke to just tried to
seel me a plan to come back and poison bait the rodents). but all I've
read
indicates that we have to be really pro-active in this.

My question is this: once I have eliminated the current infestation and
reasonably fortified ourselves against further ones, can I just wipe out
the ducts with a 10% bleach moistened rag ?

Our ducts are metal but I dont know if it has fibreglass inside it- is
there anyway to tell ?

I talked to some duct cleaning companies and they just said they would
vaccum it out, but the literature on hanta virus says that to NOT vaccum
the droppings of which I imagine there is truckloads in the ducts!

Any ideas on what I should do about the potential of mice living/droppings
in the ducts ?

Is there some tool/device that I can buy/rent out to look into these
heating ducts?


Thanks
Anita