Pleasant Hill, Calif.-Based Duct Cleaners Improve Air Quality Indoors.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2000 by Pols, Mary F.

Mar. 25--Twenty-three years in the same house in Lafayette and Bob Keagy had never gotten his air ducts cleaned.

Sure, he'd changed the filters a couple times. But his heating and cooling system had been chugging along pretty much untouched until the recent winter day when he opened his door and ushered in technicians Dean O'Loughlin and Mike Walker of Pleasant Hill-based Air Duct Cleaning Specialists.

With them came two enormous machines, a Hepa Aire 2500 and a Portable Power Vac, which they parked in a hallway while they explored Keagy's house. With 17 ducts throughout the rambling two-story house, O'Loughlin and Walker were looking at least a five-hour job. And Keagy was looking at about an $800 bill, a price he was more than willing to pay if it...

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