Duct Cleaning in Enid, OK
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Seven months of heating pushes dust through every vent in the house
Your furnace runs October through April in Enid, close to seven months of the year. Every time it kicks on, air moves through the ducts and picks up whatever is sitting in them. Dust, pet hair, and the dry Oklahoma dirt that gets into a house all get pushed through the system and settle back into the ductwork between cycles.
Wind is part of life here too, with 109 damaging wind events recorded over the past ten years. That kind of wind drives dust and debris into a house through gaps around doors and windows, and it ends up in the same ducts your furnace relies on all winter. Built up dust in the ducts means the furnace is pushing air through a dirtier system, and that dust keeps recirculating through every room the ducts reach.
- 7 months
- October through April, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 5 months
- May through September, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There is no fixed number of years that fits every home, but a contractor can tell you what your ducts need by looking at them. Get it done sooner if anyone in the house has allergies, if you have pets shedding into the return vents, or if you just finished a remodel that kicked up dust. Homes here run the furnace from October through April, seven months of the year, so more air moves through the ductwork than in places with a shorter heating season, and that means dust builds up too.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It is worth it if your ducts are visibly dirty, if dust settles again shortly after you clean the house, or if you have had rodents or a pest problem in the attic or crawlspace. It will not fix an allergy problem on its own and it will not lower your energy bill. What it does is remove the dust and debris sitting in the ductwork so your furnace and air conditioner are not pushing air through a dirty system.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum to the duct system to create negative pressure, then uses brushes or air whips to knock loose dust and debris from the inside of the ducts so it gets pulled into the vacuum instead of blown into the house. Every supply and return vent gets cleaned, along with the grilles, the plenum, and often the coil if it is accessible. A good contractor will also check the furnace filter while they are in there, since a dirty filter undoes a lot of what the cleaning accomplishes.