I am going to have to crawl in mom’s attic to work on some ductwork later this evening when things get a bit cooler outside.
I think that either the rats got in and chewed it all up or it just fell apart from the heat.
Either way, I am going to go up there once I feel ready for it and try to get the job done. I am a certified HVAC technician and have been working on ductwork for many years now, so this job should be easy and done in no time. It is summer now and it is really hot out, so doing this repair job is going to have to be done in the middle of the night or I may die of heat stroke up there. I am not sure what the temperature gets up to in the attic here but I bet it is somewhere around the 140F range. I think a lot of the air conditioning’s cold air is going up there when she runs the HVAC system to cool down the house. But it doesn’t really cool it down there because the crawl space doesn’t have any vents in it and just gets way too hot. The cool air from the HVAC system may come out some up there but it isn’t enough to really cool it down at all. I will go up there in a couple of hours with my flashlight and BB gun in case there are any rats that need to be removed. Wish me luck on this one!