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Your home's HVAC system is designed to circulate clean air. When animals break in, it circulates odors, dander, and pathogens instead. The metal ductwork of a home acts like a super-highway for rodents, allowing them to travel to every room in the house unseen.

## How They Get In
*   **Disconnected Ducts:** In crawlspaces, flex-ducts often fall off the main trunk line, leaving a wide-open hole for raccoons or opossums to climb in.
*   **Chewing:** Mice can chew through flexible foil ducts in minutes.
*   **Floor Vents:** Sometimes, a mouse falls through a floor register and gets trapped in the boot.

## The Signs
1.  **The Urine Smell:** When the furnace turns on, do you smell a sharp, acrid odor? The heat vaporizes the urine left in the ducts, blowing it into every room.
2.  **Magnoified Sound:** Metal carries sound well. A tiny mouse walking in a duct can sound like a monster scratching due to the acoustics.

## The Solution
Getting animals out of ductwork is tricky.
1.  **Extraction:** We cannot use poison (the animal will die in the duct and smell forever). We must use traps placed at strategic points in the system.
2.  **Repair:** We repair the breached ductwork, replacing soft flex-duct with rigid metal where possible to prevent chewing.
3.  **Sanitization:** This is crucial. If the ducts are filled with droppings, the air quality in your home is compromised. We can clean and sanitize the accessible ducts or recommend a full duct cleaning service.
4.  **Vent Guards:** We install exterior covers on air intakes and exhaust vents to stop future entry.

Protect your lungs and your furnace. If your vents smell like a zoo, call HWCS.

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