Somerset townhouses off Route 27 and Easton Avenue.
Somerset homes in Franklin Township
About 44% of Somerset homes were built in the 1980s and '90s, and about 26% are townhouses. A lot of those units keep the blower in an attic platform or a hallway closet.
What we see in Somerset duct systems
Of roughly 9,750 homes in Somerset, most are townhouses, apartments or multi-family houses.
Somerset was the site of a Marconi wireless station built in 1913; its antenna masts came down in 1952.
Somerset's townhouse developments off Route 27 and Easton Avenue often have air handlers in the attic or a hall closet. The single return grille in the hallway is usually the dirtiest spot in the system.
Somerset, in Franklin Township, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi Memorial Park, where a Marconi radio station was built in 1913. Most of the area's housing came much later: about 44% of homes date from the 1980s and '90s, and about a quarter are townhouses. Systems in those homes are now 25 to 45 years old, and many have never had a full cleaning.