Dirty ductwork causes health issues for friend

I’m allergic to just about everything but I don’t understand what’s causing my allergies at my friend, Trudy’s house.

  • She doesn’t have any pets at all and she’s careful about using air fresheners because she knows that I have very little tolerance for them.

But still, every time I go to her house, my allergies and asthma get really bad. It’s gotten to the point that I’m going to have to stop going to her house all together and we both feel really bad about this. But then, yesterday Trudy called and told me that she may have figured out what was making me ill in her house. She told me that her HVAC system was having some issues so she called out an HVAC company to take a look. The problem was a small one but they found a much bigger underlying issue. It turned out that her HVAC ducts were full of dust and mold and were really dirty. Trudy told me she was not aware that she had to have her HVAC ductwork cleaned out on a regular basis and she felt bad that her ductwork had gotten that dirty that it had been making me sick. Not to mention that Trudy’s own family had been breathing in all of that mold and dirt for years.Trudy had the HVAC company go ahead and do a thorough ductwork cleaning. She also had them install extra strong filters to help clean the air better. Additionally, she told me she’s going to buy a small air filter system for the house to help clean the spores out of the air.
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