Duct Cleaning in Warsaw, IN
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Eight months of heat pushes a lot of air through your ducts
From October through May your furnace is moving air through the same ducts, night after night, on nights that average 20°F. Dust, pet hair, and whatever settles in the return get carried through that whole run and pushed out into the rooms you live in.
Kosciusko County has seen 117 damaging wind events and 2 winter storms over the past ten years. Storms like that knock out power, and when it comes back on, the furnace kicks on with it, stirring up whatever has settled in the ducts since the last run.
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- October through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
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- June through August, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There is no fixed schedule that fits every home. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you have pets shedding into the return vents, or you just finished a renovation with drywall dust everywhere, clean them now rather than waiting. Ducts here run from October through May, so dust and pet hair have eight months to build up before you would even switch over to cooling.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It is worth it when there is a real reason for it, like dust coming out of the vents, a musty smell when the furnace kicks on, or a home that just went through construction work. It will not lower your heating bill or fix a furnace that is not heating right. The value is cleaner air moving through the house, not energy savings.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork and uses brushes or air tools to knock loose dust and debris, then pulls it out through the vacuum before it can resettle. Each supply and return vent gets cleaned this way, and the furnace or air handler itself usually gets attention too, since that is where a lot of the dust collects. The filter gets replaced or cleaned as part of the job, since a dirty filter puts dust right back into the ducts you just cleaned.