Duct Cleaning in Tooele, UT
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Eight months of heating pushes a lot of dust through your ducts
Your furnace runs October through May here. Every one of those months it's pulling air through the same ductwork, and whatever has settled in there moves with it, dust, pet hair, the fine debris that collects in a duct over time.
Tooele County sees real wind, with 497 damaging wind events recorded over the past ten years. Wind like that pushes dust into a house through every gap it can find, and a lot of it ends up in the return air and settles in the ducts. Cold nights averaging 20°F mean the furnace is cycling often through the winter, and every cycle stirs that dust back into the air you're breathing.
- 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?
- There is no fixed schedule that fits every house. If someone in the house has allergies, if you have pets that shed, or if you have just finished a remodel that kicked up drywall dust, get them looked at sooner rather than later. A contractor can look inside your ducts and tell you what they actually need instead of going by a calendar.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It is worth it when your ducts are visibly dirty, when you can see dust coming out of the vents, or when someone in the house has breathing trouble that gets worse indoors. It will not fix a furnace that is running poorly or lower your heating bills, so it should not be sold as a fix for those. Clean ducts do mean the air moving through your house all winter isn't carrying months of dust with it.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to your ductwork, then uses brushes or air tools to knock loose dust and debris from inside the ducts before pulling it out through the vacuum. They will also clean the supply and return vents, and check the coil and blower if those are part of the job. The furnace and air handler get sealed off from the rest of the house so the dust does not just spread to another room.