Duct Cleaning in Price, UT
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Nine months of heating runs dust through your ducts
Your furnace runs from September through May here, nine months out of the year. Every time it kicks on, air moves through the ductwork, and whatever is sitting in those ducts moves with it. Dust, and in most homes some amount of pet hair and skin cells, gets pulled through the return and pushed back out through the vents.
With winter nights averaging 15°F, the furnace is cycling on and off most of the night to keep up. More cycles means more air moving through the same ducts, and more chances for what is in them to get stirred up and blown into the rooms you're heating.
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- September through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
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- July through July, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There's no fixed schedule that fits every home, so most people go by condition rather than a calendar. If dust is visibly coming out of the vents, or someone in the house has started having unexplained allergy or congestion issues, that's a sign the ducts need attention. Homes here run the furnace nine months of the year, September through May, so ducts have a long stretch of regular use to accumulate dust compared to homes that only heat for a few months. A contractor can look inside the ductwork and tell you what condition it's actually in.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on what's actually in your ducts. If you can see dust coming out of the vents, if a musty smell shows up when the furnace kicks on, or if someone in the house is dealing with unexplained congestion or allergies, cleaning is worth doing. If none of that applies and your filter has been changed on schedule, the ducts are probably fine as they are. A contractor can look at the actual condition of your ductwork and tell you whether cleaning will make a real difference in your case.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a high-powered vacuum to your duct system, then uses brushes or air whips to knock loose the dust and debris built up on the inside walls of the ducts. The vacuum keeps the system under negative pressure the whole time, so what gets knocked loose gets pulled out instead of blown back into the rooms. The supply and return ducts, the grilles and registers, and the furnace or air handler itself all get cleaned, since buildup tends to collect at the furnace too.