My child thought the two of us had ghosts in the attic.
I wish it was that self-explanatory! Both of us moved into this remote farmhouse knowing that it was a fixer-upper, however the two of us unquestionably didn’t know how much fixing was required.
The locale had been empty for years, so while it had not been damaged, it had not been cared for in quite some time, but my partner in addition to I thought the two of us could handle anything except for maybe the specialty labor that would come later… Even though the central system was antique, the oil furnace in the basement still worked fine. Air conditioning would be a problem for another week, there were too several other things that needed fixing first. The first night there, little Jane said there were ghosts in the attic, however what she was hearing was the pitter-patter of squirrels in the HVAC ducts. The HVAC duct had been infested with generations of squirrels while the home was empty. Thankfully they had never ventured down into the home itself, however all of the HVAC duct would need to be detachd in addition to replaced. That couldn’t happen until the HVAC duct was free of all residing creatures, which was something none of us knew how to do. If the two of us poisoned them or gassed them, then I just have HVAC ducts clogged full of dead squirrels, which is not much better than what the two of us have. Both of us easily have no problem removing the HVAC duct in addition to putting in the modern set ourselves, however the two of us are clueless about how to clear them out! Anyone have pointers on how to get squirrels out of HVAC duct?