Furnace Duct Cleaning
There s no research at present proving that routine duct cleaning improves the air quality or reduces dust in your home.
Furnace duct cleaning. Average ac furnace cleaning costs. Duct cleaning has never been shown to actually prevent health problems. When properly performed duct cleaning can be useful in limited situations such as if the ducts are filthy or infested with mice or other vermin. Duct cleaning generally refers to the cleaning of various heating and cooling system components of forced air systems including the supply and return air ducts and registers grilles and diffusers heat exchangers heating and cooling coils condensate drain pans drip pans fan motor and fan housing and the air handling unit housing see.
Inspecting and cleaning just the furnace costs 100 to 300 or up to 500 if you include an ac unit. Duct cleaning should also involve a thorough cleaning of the air handler registers grilles fans motors housings and coils of the hvac system. Using a powerful hepa filtered vacuum we clean your furnace evaporator coil blower and vent covers. Duct cleaning services include any parts of these that air passes over including the blower fan and heat exchanger.
A duct cleaning can t hurt and i also run the fan on my furnace around 340 days a year which keeps air moving through my filter thus catching more of the dust and hair and of course meaning i change my filter a bit more often than most but that is about all you can do. If you see evidence of significant visible mold growth in the ducts or on the mechanical components of the hvac system that come in contact with air. Neither do studies conclusively demonstrate that particle e g. Dust levels in homes increase because of dirty air ducts.
Air duct inspection. We offer air duct inspections from our technicians to verify that your air ducts need to be cleaned. The epa does recommend cleaning ducts on certain occasions.