Duct Cleaning in Beulah, ND
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Nine months of heating pushes a lot of air through your ducts
Your furnace runs September through May here, nine months of the year. On nights that average 6 degrees, it cycles on and off for hours to hold the house. Every cycle pulls household air through the ductwork, and whatever is in that air, dust, pet hair, skin cells, settles along the duct walls a little more each time.
Winter storms add to what the ducts have to handle. Mercer County has seen 24 winter storms and 65 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and outages that follow a storm can shut a furnace down and start it back up more than once in a season. Each restart pushes another round of settled dust loose into the air the house breathes.
- 9 months
- September through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 2 months
- July through August, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There's no set schedule that fits every home, and a contractor can tell you what your ducts actually need by looking at them. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you've had work done that left dust behind, cleaning sooner makes sense. Homes here run the furnace September through May, so the ducts are moving air for most of the year, which gives dust more time to settle in the runs.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It's worth it if you can see dust coming out of the vents, or if the system seems to be working harder than it should. A contractor can look at the ducts and tell you whether cleaning will help your air or your airflow. It won't fix a furnace that's failing for some other reason, but clean ducts mean the air moving through your house isn't carrying years of buildup with it.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork and uses brushes or air tools to knock dust and debris loose from inside the lines, pulling it out before it can recirculate. The vents, the return, and the main trunk lines all get gone over. Afterward the registers go back on and the system gets checked to make sure air is moving through it the way it should.