mayty

One week after moving into my 6 year old house, I discovered the ducts were fiberglass! A few days later I had the entire duct system taken out and replaced with metal. Doesn't anyone remember fiberglass is spun glass? Once inhaled into the lungs it stays there. It is a known carcinogen! The woman next door who has lived with their fiberglass duct work has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and neither she nor her husband have ever smoked. I believe this will be a future class action lawsuit just as years ago asbestos was found to be harmful to human health. I kept a length of the duct work to show my neighbors and their jaws dropped! They thought, as I did,that the ducts were square metal wrapped with insulation. The rigidness of the fiberglass ducts also contributed to problems with good air flow as the system was installed with 45 degree angles and even one length higher than the other causing the flow to hit against the flat surface before it crept up and over meaning the air exchanger had to work harder to push air through. Love the metal ducts! All rooms now have even cooling. Responsible duct cleaning services will also inform home owners that cleaning their fiberglass ducts can loosen the fiberglass threads. Also, one section of the main duct was not fitted correctly which left interior fiberglass exposed to the main air flow.