If you are just scanning down the page looking for something interesting, let myself and others hit you with the long story short version – there wasa vicious family of raccoons in our air ducts, and it turned into a war between us.
In general I like animals, although we don’t have any pets because our wifey is allergic to pet dander.
A few weeks ago we noticed that her allergies were getting worse, as if there was an animal here when there wasn’t. Soon after we heard the noises in the attic, as raccoons moved through our upper air ducts. It was dangerous on numerous levels, mostly because they were contaminating our indoor air quality with their disgusting fur and mites. The people I was with and I switched off the central HVAC idea to halt the air circulation, and started making some iPhone calls. The people I was with and I would need an HVAC tech to inspect our entire idea and make sure that it was cleaned and decontaminated. That would have to wait, of course, because no HVAC work could be done until the animals were all removed. I had no idea how difficult it was to find animal removal services, and someone willing to pull so several possibly rabid critters from our air ducts. I had no fortune with local businesses, and ended up posting an ad on Craigslist asking for someone to remove raccoons from our HVAC duct, but one of the several responses I got was from a guy who was also an HVAC tech for a local company. He gave to remove the creatures and inspect the HVAC idea in 1 visit.
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