Duct Cleaning in Blanding, UT
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Eight months of heat means eight months of dust moving through your ducts
Your furnace runs October through May here, close to eight months a year. Every time it kicks on, air pushes through the same ducts over and over, and whatever is sitting in them gets stirred up and pushed into your rooms. On nights averaging 23°F, that furnace is cycling on and off often, so the air keeps moving through dust and debris that has settled in the duct runs.
Blanding has seen 77 winter storms and 16 damaging wind events over the past ten years. Wind like that drives dust and debris into homes through gaps around doors, windows, and vents, and a lot of it ends up pulled into the return ducts. Over time that buildup narrows the airflow and gets circulated right back through the house every time the furnace runs.
- 8 months
- October through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 3 months
- June through August, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- Most homes do fine having their ducts cleaned every few years, not every year. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you have had pets shedding into the return vents, or you just finished a remodel that kicked up drywall dust, it is worth doing sooner. Homes here run the furnace October through May, so more air moves through the ducts than in a place with a short heating season. Check the vents and returns for buildup if it has been a while since anyone looked.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on what is actually in the ducts. If you can see dust kicking out of the vents, if a room never seems to get fully heated even after the furnace runs, or if someone in the house has allergy symptoms that ease up when they leave the house, cleaning is worth it. If none of that is happening, the ducts are probably doing their job. A contractor can look inside the ducts with a camera and tell you whether there is enough buildup to matter before you commit to the work.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork and uses brushes or air tools to loosen dust and debris along the way, pulling it out through the vacuum rather than pushing it further into the house. Every supply and return vent gets opened and cleaned, along with the main trunk lines. The furnace or air handler often gets attention too, since dust collects around the blower and coil. Afterward the vents get closed back up and the system is run to check that airflow feels normal at each register.