Duct Cleaning in Owensboro, KY
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Seven months of heating pushes a lot of air through your ducts
Your furnace runs October through April here, seven months out of the year. Every one of those months, warm air is moving through your ducts and out into the rooms you're sitting in, carrying whatever has settled in there with it.
The county has also seen 95 damaging wind events and 14 winter storms over the past ten years. Storms like that can drive dust and debris into a duct system through vents and any gaps in the ductwork, adding to what's already built up inside before that air ever reaches you.
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- October through April, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
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- May through September, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There's no fixed number of years that fits every home. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you've had a remodel or attic work that left dust behind, it's worth doing sooner rather than waiting. Homes with pets or a smoker tend to need it more often too. A contractor can look inside your ducts and tell you what's actually built up in there.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on what's going on in your ducts. If you can see dust coming out of the vents, or there's a musty smell when the furnace or AC kicks on, cleaning will help. If the ducts look fine and nobody in the house has breathing trouble, you may not need it done at all. It won't lower your heating or cooling bills, so don't go into it expecting that.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a powerful vacuum to the duct system, then uses brushes or compressed air tools to knock loose the dust and debris inside so it can be pulled out. This covers the supply and return ducts, the grilles and registers, and usually the coil and blower if they're easy to reach. Your furnace filter gets replaced too, since the filter is what actually keeps that debris out of the air you breathe. The point is to remove what's built up, not to change how the system runs.