Duct Cleaning in Mansfield, OH
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Your furnace runs eight months a year here
October through May, the furnace here is pushing air through the same ducts night after night. On nights that average 20°F, it runs long and often to keep the house warm. Every pass carries dust and pet hair into the ductwork, and eight months of that is a lot of passes.
Richland County has also logged 86 damaging wind events and 7 winter storms over the past ten years, the kind of storms that knock out power. When the furnace sits idle during an outage, dust settles in the ducts instead of moving through, and it is waiting there when the system comes back on.
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- October through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
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- June through August, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There's no fixed schedule that fits every house. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you've had a pest problem or water get into the ducts, that's a reason to do it sooner rather than wait. Homes here run the furnace eight months of the year, October through May, so more air moves through those ducts than in milder climates, and dust has more time to build up. A contractor can look at what's actually in the ducts and tell you whether it's time.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It's worth it if you can see dust coming out of the vents, if a room never seems to heat or cool right, or if the ducts have had rodents or water in them. It won't fix a furnace or air conditioner that's failing for other reasons. A contractor can look at the ducts and tell you whether cleaning will actually help your situation or whether something else is going on.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork and uses brushes or air tools to knock loose dust and debris, then pulls it out through the vacuum so it doesn't just settle back down the line. They'll usually check the supply and return ducts and the vents themselves, and sometimes the coil, since dust collects there too. The filter still does the ongoing work of keeping air clean between cleanings, so it gets checked as well.