Duct Cleaning in Lincoln, NE
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Eight months of heating pushes a lot of air through your ducts
Your furnace runs October through May here, eight months of the year. Every one of those months, the same air gets pulled through your ductwork and pushed back out, over and over. Dust, pet hair, and whatever else is in the house rides along and settles inside the duct runs.
Lincoln County has also seen 19 winter storms and 151 damaging wind events over the past ten years. Storms like those mean power blinks off and the furnace cuts out, then kicks back on when it returns. Each restart pushes another round of air through ducts that have been collecting dust all season, and it ends up back in the house.
- 8 months
- October through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 4 months
- June through September, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- Most homes don't need duct cleaning on a strict schedule. Homes with pets, smokers, or someone with allergies tend to need it more often, since more gets pulled into the ducts to begin with. If you just moved in and don't know the duct history, or you're finishing a renovation that kicked up dust and drywall debris, that's a good reason to have them cleaned regardless of when they were last done.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It's worth it when there's a reason behind it, not just as a routine expense. If you can see dust blowing out of the vents, if someone in the house has allergy symptoms that ease up when they're away from home, or if you've had rodents or a water leak near the ductwork, cleaning addresses a real problem. Ducts here run with the heat on from October through May, so anything sitting in them gets circulated through the house for most of the year. Without one of those signs, cleaning is more about peace of mind than a fix for anything specific.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a powerful vacuum to the duct system, then uses brushes or air whips to knock dust and debris loose from inside the ducts so the vacuum can pull it out. This is done at each vent and register throughout the house. The furnace or air handler, the blower compartment, and the coil often get cleaned at the same time, since that's where a lot of the buildup starts.