Duct Cleaning in East Stroudsburg, PA
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Eight months of heating puts a lot of dust through your ducts
Your furnace runs October through May here, close to eight months a year. On nights that average 19°F in the dead of winter, it cycles on and off for hours at a stretch, and every cycle pushes air through the same ductwork. Dust, pet hair, and whatever settles in the return sit there and get stirred up and pushed through the house again and again.
Most homes in Monroe County are single-family and owner-occupied, so it is one household's dust building up over years, not a mix of tenants coming and going. Storms add to it too. This area has seen 27 winter storms and 174 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and outages that follow can shut a system down and start it back up, which stirs up whatever has settled in the ducts since the last cycle.
- 8 months
- October 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 fixed number of years that fits every home. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you've had renovation work that left dust behind, get it looked at sooner rather than later. Homes with pets often need it more often too, since fur and dander build up in the ductwork faster. A contractor can look inside your system and tell you what condition your ducts are actually in before you decide.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on what's going on with your ducts right now. If you can see dust blowing out of the vents, or you've noticed a musty smell when the furnace kicks on, cleaning solves a real problem. If your ducts look fine and nobody in the house has breathing issues, it may not do much for you. A contractor can inspect the ductwork and tell you whether cleaning will actually help your situation, since this isn't something worth doing just because time has passed.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork and uses brushes or air tools to loosen dust and debris before pulling it out. Every supply and return vent in the house gets covered, along with the main trunk lines that connect back to the furnace. The furnace itself, including the blower and coil, usually gets cleaned as part of the job since air moves through it constantly. Registers and grilles come off during the process so nothing gets missed behind them.