Benefits of Air Duct Cleaning
There are many benefits of air duct cleaning as by removing contaminants from your home’s air ducts from your heating and cooling system, the effects of dust and mold are greatly reduced. When you don’t clean your air ducts at least once per year, a considerable amount of dirt, grime, dust and other unhealthy particles can accumulate. If these particles are allowed to sit in your vents long enough, the contaminants will drastically reduce your house or building’s air quality.
Here are the top five reasons air ducts should be inspected, cleaned, and serviced:
1. Remove Allergens In Your System. There are many factors that affect how many allergens are in your home. By properly cleaning your air duct system, you can protect your family from harmful dust and other contaminants that could stir up allergies or even cause asthma to flare up. Air ducts provide an ideal breeding ground for bacteria, mold, fungi, and other allergens. Children under the age of four are particularly vulnerable and the result may be allergies or asthma. Professional air duct cleaning can help remove allergens such as pet dander, bacteria, pollen, mildew, and similar contaminates that trigger allergy symptoms.
2. Improves Air Flow and Efficiency. Without proper maintenance each year the amount of dust, hair, pet dander, pests, and other pollutants in your ductwork will hinder an HVAC system’s airflow efficiency. When your system is less efficient, it means that your heating and/or cooling unit is working harder to heat and cool your home. There is a reason why HVAC manufactures continue to improve their systems and efficiency ratings; so improve your energy bills while investing into a better system. If you don’t want to invest into another, more expensive unit, cleaning your vents will help with save on the additional investment.
3. Improves Indoor Air Quality: Do you think a dirty air filter is good for Indoor Air Quality? Research done by the EPA (check out study found here), a scientific research has shown evidence that indoor air, within homes and office buildings, can be more seriously polluted than outdoor air causing health issues. Additionally, statics show most people spend approximately 90% of their time indoors (if they don’t have a job that requires work done outside).
4. Helps with Overall Cleanliness of Your Home: Are you, someone in your home, or even hired help continuously dusting? Many homeowners, both new and ones that have been in their home many years, may constantly be dusting only to see dust back the very next day on furniture they just dusted. If dust, stuck pet dander, or other particles are not properly removed from cleaning your air ducts, the dust particles in the air will continue to circulate throughout your home or office. Homes built today will typically have drywall dust and other debris from construction in the new ductwork before you even moves into your home. These situation typically result in dust continuously landing everywhere in all your living areas causing sneezing, and lots of it.
5. Removal of Pet & Other Unpleasant Odors: It’s safe to say that no one wants to have a house stinks or smells funny. Unfortunately, there are many factors that can cause an unwanted stench such as smoking if you don’t have a dedicated room with appropriate ventilation, cooking, construction or paint fumes. Also, animal fur can get trapped in your vents and build up living germs, fungus, and allergy-causing bacteria that cause different odors in your home or office. These situation can cause your air ducts to acquire stale, unpleasant odors quickly. Having your air ducts cleaned regularly will help reduce these odors as you will have the contaminants and other odor causing particles removed from your airducts that trap the unpleasant odors.
Closing Thoughts on the Benefits of Air Duct Cleaning
When dirt and debris are removed from ductwork, the fans and motors that power a furnace no longer need to work as hard to distribute air. Air duct cleaning can improve the overall cleanliness and air quality of your home or business, but there are other things you can do to help as well. As most people spending more time indoors, even people that work outside still sleep indoors & breath the air circulated through their home, reducing harmful particles from circulating inside your home has never been more important. Other things that you can do to ensure the quality of your indoor air are:
- Vacuum
- Install Air Handlers or other filtration systems
- Dust
- Check HVAC filters.
- Have your home tested for Radon. (And mitigate it if necessary).
- Let in some fresh air!
- Schedule Air Duct Cleaning
We advice our customers to routinely get their air ducts inspected and proper maintenance is important. This is a best practice for properly maintaining a home, but it also keeps the quality of indoor air as pure as possible for a healthy home.