We need new ductwork in our home

We need new ductwork in our home

Nick November 11, 2019

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I were given some news we weren’t really thrilled with.

When the HVAC company came into clean the ductwork, they told us that the ductwork was in such poor shape that it wasn’t worth salvaging.

They told us we needed to have new ductwork installed throughout the entire home. We both knew this was going to be really expensive and it was also going to be quite messy. They would have to tear out walls and ceilings so they could put new ductwork in our home. I wasn’t really happy with this idea. We wanted to get an estimate of the scope of work and the cost for the work before we made any decision. It took nearly a full day for the HVAC company to come into our house and do their inspection of all of the ductwork. I almost fainted when I saw their estimate for the equipment needed and for the work that had to be done to install the new ductwork. My husband and I weren’t thrilled with putting out almost as much money for ductwork as we would put out for a new HVAC system. We went through different scenarios with the HVAC technician as we tried to find a way to have the work done a bit more cheaply. The one HVAC tech told us that we could always use flexible ductwork which was much cheaper and it was also stronger and it would last longer. It was still going to be a lot of work, but we liked the savings.

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