This week at work, I noticed a weird smell coming from the air vents in the building.
- At first I thought that I was imagining it because no one else seemed to notice the smell.
I have a super sensitive sense of smell, though, so that was not really all that unusual. My husband says that I am like a bloodhound because I am always sniffing things out. Well, on Monday whenever I came into the office, I immediately knew that there was something off with the indoor air quality in the building. I was not really sure what it was, but I could tell that there was something going on inside of the ductwork. Every single time that the heating system turned on in the building, I could smell the odor more. That’s how I figured out that it was coming out of the ductwork in the first place. I told the building maintenance director that there was something going on with the HVAC system and he said that he would check into it for me. At first I thought that he was probably just humoring me by saying that, but a couple of hours later, I saw him with two of the maintenance guys in the building with a ladder. They were looking around inside some of the ductwork in the building. Sure enough, they ended up finding mold and mildew in the ductwork! I knew that I had smelled something! They ended up calling the local commercial HVAC company to come and clean the ductwork in the building.