My sister had neglected her furnace all spring and summer last year and then she ended up with a terrible surprise when they went to clean it up before the fall.
When the weather started cooling off, she and her husband went down to the furnace room in the basement to do a little cleaning.
They were just planning on cleaning up the exterior of the furnace and wiping down the outside of it but then when they went into the furnace room, they started to smell a weird smell. Her husband started looking around and he opened up the casing on the outside of the furnace and that’s when he saw that there was a rats’ nest inside of the furnace! What a horrible mess it was. My sister said that she was almost sick when they were cleaning it out and she made her husband do most of it. I told her that it could have been worse. At least they found the rats’ nest in the furnace before they turned the furnace on for the winter! I told her that there would have been a much bigger issue for them to deal with if they ended up having roasted rats in their furnace at the beginning of the winter. When I said that, she said that she was going to throw up just thinking about it. It makes me laugh whenever she talks about it. I guarantee that from now on, she is going to be making sure that they check in on their furnace system throughout the spring and the summer even when they aren’t using it.