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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldman, post: 336415, member: 11986&quot;]Hey guys I thought id show off what I found this morning while working on my house. The house I live in was built around 1900 in New England. I have slowly been remodeling the place over the past year and after a few cold days went into my basement this morning to find out what the problem was with my heating. I have Forced air for heating and the duct work has been in place about 80 years unchanged. Anyhow I decided to see if my forced air pipes have ever been cleaned out. So I take broom and head down to knock on the pipes to listen if I hear any solid sounds. As to see if I can hear maybe something disrupting my air flow. So ok I&#039;m going along banging the pipes above my head with a broom handle listing for any soiled sounds, to find where the clogs turn out be. I notice that there are some screens put into the pipes about 4 feet from floor level above, under each floor vent to the first floor. I believe to stop objects from falling back in to the main junction box for the boiler that I happen to have changed when I moved in but I didn&#039;t bother to change the pipes because they are in pretty good shape even for such a old system, plus I am dreading the thought of changing them to the second floor. So I think ok. I can fix this quick and easy for the time being and head upstairs with the shop vac. After fighting with the metal floor covers 100 year old screws I stick the vacuums hose into the ducts and start sucking up dust, dirt dust and dust Bunny&#039;s that have been building up for all those years. My Vac plugs up a few times and I clear it out to find some old cat toys, a few plastic army figures, a couple of those super balls, some jacks, marbles and yes A LOT more dust. The last vent I vacuumed out is in the Kitchen which oddly enough was remolded at least once, about 40 years ago. I get another clog and this is what I pull out. I am in disbelief but sure as a cold day is cold and after a quick rinse off in the sink this is what I found at the end of my Vacuums hose. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am having a good. My question now is.How long had this been in there? It looks MS other then a crazy colors. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii261/Oldman1176/DSC01455.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii261/Oldman1176/DSC01456.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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