Duct Cleaning Services

Duct Cleaning Services

Professional duct cleaning services use specialized blowers, vacuums, and brushes to clean out the supply, intake, and return ducts throughout your home. Duct cleaning should also involve a thorough cleaning of the air handler, registers, grilles, fans, motors, housings, and coils of the HVAC system.

There's no research at present proving that routine duct cleaning improves the air quality or reduces dust in your home. However, there is evidence to suggest that HVAC units may be less efficient if they have dirty cooling and heating coils and motors.

Although duct cleaning is not necessary in isolation, it can be beneficial for HVAC units and ductwork.

Step 2 : Create A Negative Pressure

With big portable and truck-mounted vacuum collections units, duct cleaning technicians clean out ductwork. Before turning on the vacuum and cleaning the ducts with it, technicians need to take some precautionary steps.

They will first attach the vacuum collection unit's long hose to the duct. This is the core of your HVAC system. Simply, the technician will cut an opening in the duct and insert the vacuum tube. Then, seal the area where the two intersect.

(Keep in mind that your HVAC system has a supply-side and a return side--ducts that deliver treated air into your home's rooms and ducts that return air to the air handler.) The supply and return sides are different, and the duct cleaning process must be carried out on each separately.)

To secure the registers, the technician will use adhesive covers. This is a critical move because even the most efficient vacuum collection system would be rendered useless if the registers in each room of the house are left uncovered.

If the technician has completed these preliminary measures, he or she will switch on the vacuum unit. This phase generates negative pressure, and particles within the ductwork are sucked into the collection system as they are brushed or blown loose.