A listener asks if spraying Lysol in an HVAC return duct kills mold. Lysol only kills germs where it touches directly and won't sanitize the whole system. Spraying chemicals can damage equipment, so UV light or professional cleaning works better.
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Does spraying a whole can of Lysol into your air intake actually do any good to eliminate mold?
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All right, so if you read the can of Lysol, I believe, and I haven't seen one in a while, but I believe it says, kills 99% of germs on contact. So is the contact being made throughout the system if you spray it in the return, which I think is what you mean by intake? No. So is it going to kill mold and stuff downstream?
No.
Now, it might take care of something right there in front of you when you spray it. Hey, I got a piece right there. It's dead.
It might do that, but it's not.
Going to filter through the unit and.
Go out through your system and sanitize the whole place. That is not going to happen. You have multiple problems. First of all, you spraying a chemical in the system, which is then getting to the unit, which could cause damage. So I would not recommend it on any scale. We have quite a few products to handle any kind of growth you may have, as well as clean your duck and sealing your duck and then taking care of your unit inside. We do it naturally, we do it with UV, Mother Nature kind of products. Okay? We don't use chemicals. We don't use anything that's harmful. Everything we use to clean your system is all natural.
So if you go outside, I think you guys probably heard this old thing about, you know, if you're in the woods, which. Which way is north? Well, north is the side with the moss on it. Why is that? Because UV or sunlight does not get into that side of the tree. That's why it's growing on it. So your unit, your system is the same way. You have a dark, damp climate and things that are start happening. So we take UV or the power of the sun and bring it into your system and shine light on those products and things don't grow anymore. So that's the simple way to do it.
I mean, you do it naturally.
You don't spray Lysol. You can if you want to. I think Lysol is pretty expensive. I'm not sure what the price is for a can. 3, 4 bucks a can?
Yeah, I don't know. But to answer the question, it will.
Kill what is on contact, which is going to be right in front of you. But no, it will not. It will not go downstream.
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