I would submit the duct cleaning is perhaps half of the service. The servicing/inspecting of the furnace, usually tied to the cleaning, is worth it in my mind. I know in my case having EVERLAST out last year resulted in increasing my awareness of some pending issues.
Just like taking your car to the dealer for service. Suddenly a devils triad of issues pop up that need immediate attention
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I hate to tell you this, but I’ve just launched an air biscuit
many moons ago took my at-the-time cr@ppy little car to crappy tire for a service. Came back with about a ~$3k estimate of things that needed done. I think I only paid $2400 for that thing and it was actually in decent shape. From that point I swore never to go back... but oddly enough I was forced back when the next car suddenly failed and I literally rolled downhill into their service bay. Yep they tried to screw me over yet again so I swore never again.
This flies in the face of like... a whole hell of a lot of experts saying the opposite.
__________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
Any time youd like a free service where i show you the benefit in person youll be sold.
Thr problem is how many companies can buy the equipment but have no idea how its actually supposed to be used and this is thr dissatisfaction many people have which is 100% justified because they hired unqualified, incompetent, inexperienced, unlicensed cash hungry people to do the work.
That makes up 80% of the industry based on my 4 decades of experience in the industry.
Thr furnace component is extremely important however . If your furnace is dirty theres only one reason ....its attached to extremely dirty ducts , filters arent being changed monthly as they should be and it has to be pulled apart completely and properly for inspection cleaning and tune-up.
90% of companies i follow have lazy technicians who dont pull them apart down to the skeleton for this and thats why furnaces break down.
I do it all in one shot eliminating all the guesswork.
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The bugpocalypse all over southern Alberta really ####ing sucks. Can't spend any time outside when the sun sets without getting absolutely swarmed, and bug spray doesn't seem to make any difference. It's also impossible to keep the car clean if you do any driving in the evening, driving home from Langdon I almost lost visibility out of the windshield due to all the carcasses on it
many moons ago took my at-the-time cr@ppy little car to crappy tire for a service. Came back with about a ~$3k estimate of things that needed done. I think I only paid $2400 for that thing and it was actually in decent shape. From that point I swore never to go back... but oddly enough I was forced back when the next car suddenly failed and I literally rolled downhill into their service bay. Yep they tried to screw me over yet again so I swore never again.
Damn dude, now we’re gonna be under pages and pages of Locke’s CT escapades again.
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The bugpocalypse all over southern Alberta really ####ing sucks. Can't spend any time outside when the sun sets without getting absolutely swarmed, and bug spray doesn't seem to make any difference. It's also impossible to keep the car clean if you do any driving in the evening, driving home from Langdon I almost lost visibility out of the windshield due to all the carcasses on it
By trail and error of various brands, this one seems to work best for me.
Spoiler!
Brands like OFF! didn't do much, but this Ben's one is the best one I have found.
The bugs have been horrendous this summer, probably the worst I've experienced since my days as a kid vacationing in Manitoba during the summers. Went to a lake over the weekend and the moment we stepped onto the grass, it was like a swarm of locusts immediately located us and began eating away. Literally within a few seconds it was overwhelming. Moved back away from the water and applied the Ben's spray. Not a bug in site after.
Usually I'll do a quick spray before an evening walk and it's a life saver. Last night we went for a walk and forgot to spray some on and it was the worst walk ever. Saw some teen lacrosse teams playing on the athletic field close to us and it was obvious they were all getting eaten too. Felt bad for them watching the players slapping themselves repeatedly.
Very satisfying having my bug zapper on my balcony and hearing it zap away.
I thought about those clip on dragon flies, but apparently they work on visual bugs like horseflies and not much on mosquitoes. In the past, OFF had a eucalyptus repellent lotion that worked great, but over the years, the mosquitoes seemed to have started ignoring it, so it's back to DEET. Citronella torches don't seem consistent in keeping them away. Maybe helps keeping mosquitoes down in the grass, but the moment you walk by, it's not enough of a deterrent for them to jump on you.
Agreed on the bug zapper being satisfying. I got the $10 at Canadian Tire and it works reasonably well. I gave the kids one each and taught them to make the bugs fly, then swing the zapper at them in our back yard. They had a lot of fun doing that.
This flies in the face of like... a whole hell of a lot of experts saying the opposite.
Yeah, lots of out-of-date sources mixed with a bunch of misinterpretations / mischaracterizations of the prevailing evidence on the subject.
It's also so f-cking long that a lot of people will uncritically grant it at least some credibility solely because it links to valid sources, despite the fact the sources don't necessarily support the author's conclusions.
Yeah, lots of out-of-date sources mixed with a bunch of misinterpretations / mischaracterizations of the prevailing evidence on the subject.
It's also so f-cking long that a lot of people will uncritically grant it at least some credibility solely because it links to valid sources, despite the fact the sources don't necessarily support the author's conclusions.
When I was looking into my radon issue, I did find some legitimate discussions around stuff like the protective radon dose, such as this one:
The mechanisms describe do seam to make sense and have validity, but having monitored my radon I also know it varies wildly and even if your goal was to somehow have its protective dose in your home, there is no way to do it predictably. And the evidence it is harmful at higher doses seems pretty strong, so the current recommendations make sense, even if there are some "ya, but's" around.
I've seen rough-ins for radon mitigation on new home plans here in Calgary, for what a mitigation system costs it's not even a rounding error on a mortgage. No harm in doing it.
