I’ve been an HVAC tech for most of my adult life, but I started working at a local heating and cooling supplier back when I first got out of school and I just ended up staying there.
It’s not like I ever planned on being an HVAC tech for my whole life, but it just kind of happened, and one thing that I can say about this work, though, is that it’s never boring.
I always meet new people all the time and I have seen some crazy things over the years. One of my favorite parts of going out on HVAC repair and repair calls is doing vent cleaning. I love cleaning out ventilation ducts. I know that sounds kind of weird, but the funny thing is that I find all kinds of crazy stuff in air vents and air ducts. Once I found a rubber ducky sitting all alone in one of the air vents. It just makes you think how in the world some of this stuff ever got in there. I normally find lots of make-up, clothes, stickers, crayons, and pet toys. Once in a while, I find something like a sweater or a shoe stuck down in an air conditioner vent or a heating duct, and the craziest thing I ever found was an old bag full of money! It looked like it had been crammed into the air duct years ago, and the homeowner had no idea that it was in there. They were having trouble with their heating and cooling coming out correctly, and the reason was because this bucket of money was blocking the airflow.