Duct & Dryer Vent Cleanings
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The dryer vents and ducts in your home, even though you never see them, are among the most important parts of an ongoing air filtration, heating and cooling system that keeps you and your family happy and healthy. However, few people realize how often duct cleaning needs to occur. Dirt from your clothing and your shoes, dust from dead skin and pets, and pollen from outside can start to block these ducts and vents over time and when these particles stop getting filtered is when you start to breathe them in.
Duct Cleaning Services
Your air ducts are the pathways that air travels through after leaving your HVAC equipment in order to reach the various rooms in your home. Each year, your air ducts handle tons and tons of air, along with the dust and other debris included with it. In many cases, this debris can become stuck inside air ducts and vents, resulting in reduced air quality and overall airflow. After a few years, you may find that your air isn’t as clean, your airflow isn’t as powerful, and you’re constantly dealing with issues like sneezing, watery eyes, or even household odors.
If you’re tired of dealing with air duct issues, turn to the professional duct cleaning team at Bob’s Heating & Air Conditioning. We use premium tools, state-of-the-art materials, and modern techniques to conduct a thorough cleaning of your air duct network. We service both modern sheet metal ducts and older duct systems alike, ensuring that the inside of your ducts are free of debris that reduces your quality of life.
- Dirt
- Dust
- Dead skin cells
- Pet dander
- Pollen
- Mold and mildew
Over time, no matter how clean you might think the air in your home is, your ducts will eventually grow dirty and need to be professionally cleaned. We strongly recommend having your ducts cleaned at least every two years in order to maximize the quality of your air. Waiting any longer than this can also have repercussions for your HVAC system as well; dirty ducts will reduce your air quality and lead to air filters that fill up faster. A dirty air filter can both reduce energy efficiency and even cause your HVAC system to break down.
Performance Testing
Is your house leaking? In many homes, air leaks are found in holes cut where plumbing, wiring, lighting, and duct work are installed. In addition, your air ducts may also be leaking. Some signs that your home may be leaking air:
- High summer and winter utility bills
- Rooms that are difficult to heat and cool
- Stuffy rooms that never seem to feel comfortable
- Ducts are located in an attic, unfinished basement, crawl space or garage
- Tangled or kinked flexible ducts in your system
The first step to making your house more efficient is to schedule a performance test for your home. Bob’s technicians are specially trained and PTCS Certified, so you can be sure that when your air duct and blower door tests are performed, and your duct work is sealed, all work will meet or exceed new building code standards.
Duct Sealing
If you have a heating or air conditioning system in your home, it’s a safe bet that you also have a complex duct system that distributes that heated or cooled air to the rooms of your house as efficiently as possible. Most people take that system for granted, forgetting that there are potential holes, leaks, or cracks in those ducts that could be leaking air in torrents, severely increasing your energy consumption and utility bills.
Also, outdoor pollution and gasses can seep through open duct systems, which can worsen asthma, allergies, chronic illnesses, and more for residents. Sealing the ducts in your home could lead to a reduction in your bills and higher air quality in your home.
- Sealing the ducts in your home can help to keep your family comfortable, reduce the cost of electricity and heating year round, and ensure you are doing your part to consume less energy on a regular basis.
- Beyond the money and energy saving benefits of duct sealing, you can also ensure higher air quality in your home. Fumes and gasses from outside can leak into open duct systems and be circulated throughout your home. This can make asthma, allergies or chronic illnesses worse and even if you have an air filtration system, the excess pollutants will be present in the air.
- Additionally, not all ducts carry heated or cooled household air. Some of them carry exhaust fumes and dangerous carbon monoxide. While it is important to have a CO monitor in your home, you can ensure safe breathing for your family with a properly sealed duct system
Coil Cleaning
Have you ever thought about what the condenser coil on your outdoor air conditioning unit is really doing every summer? In extreme heat, it takes the heat from your house and pushes it outside into that already warm summer air and in cold weather it moves air across heated coils to warm it. To do this, it pumps a large amount of air into and out of the house. Imagine what happens if dirt builds up on the unit or if you allow plants to grow over the outdoor coils? The air flow has nowhere to go and the air conditioning unit only gets hotter, building up to the point of potential damage.
As a result, the cost of electricity to run the fan on your unit skyrockets as the lifespan of your air conditioner drops sharply due to overuse. To make sure this does not happen, Bob’s Heating & Air Conditioning provides regular coil cleaning to remove excess dust and debris from your air conditioning and heating coils. In addition to professional cleanings, we also recommend you pay especially close attention to the plants and dirt that build up on the outside of your unit, especially during the cooler months when it is not in use.
A thorough coil cleaning should be done at least every two years, depending on how often you use the air conditioner in the summer. For those that leave their air conditioner on from May through September, you might even need to have it cleaned annually to ensure the build-up is less severe.
