Maintain your System Through Air Duct Cleaning

If you have an extensive air duct system in your home or office, chances are every once in a while you’re going to need to clean it out. Air duct cleaning is an important part of maintenance to your system. If you don’t periodically clean out your air duct system then it will not work properly resulting in higher energy bills and need for repair or replacement down the road.

If you have pets, that creates a lot of hair and dander. It often gets caught up in your air duct system. You may need to clean it out more often than a family without pets. Sure, you may have one short haired cat, but some people have several dogs and cats because they have a large house and a big family. Some people opt to raise pets rather than children. Sound familiar? If you have a house with pets, air duct cleaning is essential to the maintenance of your system.

Air duct cleaning is a great way to maintain low energy bills too. If you run a small business, you want to keep those every day expenses low so that you can continue to grow and profit from your business. Keep record of when you last had someone come out to clean your air duct system and make sure to keep it in the budget for regular maintenance.

The other thing you’ll avoid if you regularly clean out your air duct system is any repairs or replacements as a result of not cleaning them. One sign that you need to clean your duct system would be higher energy bills. This may or may not be a gradual change. If you find your energy bills getting higher and higher each month, you might want to get a thorough air duct cleaning.

If you do not notice and the system continues to get dirty it’s going to require the mechanics of the system to work harder. If it’s working to hard to heat your space, the generator could overheat and break down. On the other side of the scale, if the air conditioning unit is working too hard at sending cool air through the system it will freeze over. Sometimes giving that system a rest will help but there’s a good chance of it breaking too.

If you never vacuumed your house or dusted your furniture, the daily dirt and dust would accumulate and you would see the visible dirt. The same goes for your air duct system. Be sure to schedule an air duct cleaning regularly at your home or office to maintain the efficiency of the system and as a part of regular maintenance to avoid costly repairs and replacements.