The Anonymous Widower

Cleaning Ducts

Outside my house at the moment is a van from a company that says it cleans ducts.

By this it means those big air vents you get in places like kitchens and I guess they are cleaning the ducts in the pub a couple of doors away, that is being refurbished.

It reminds me of a story about Enfield Rolling Mills.

An apprentice called Dave Howard was asked to clean the ducts in the canteen. On putting his head inside, he found that they contained quite a number of rats. As he didn’t like the thought of mixing it in the ducts with little furry animals, he decided on another course of action. He just switched everything off and made sure a lot of hot air was driven through the ducts.

The strategy worked in that it blew the rats away, but the canteen wasn’t able to sell any food for several days because of the smell.

January 23, 2012 Posted by | Food, World | , | Leave a comment