Duct Cleaning in Shawnee, OK
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Six months of heating pushes the same dust through your ducts
Your furnace runs November through April in Shawnee, with winter nights averaging 30°F from December through February. Every time it kicks on, air moves through the same ductwork, and whatever is sitting in there, dust, pet hair, drywall dust, gets pushed into the rooms you live in.
Pottawatomie County has seen 57 damaging wind events and 6 winter storms over the past ten years, and storms like these knock out power. A quarter of Oklahoma households went at least 24 hours without power last year. When the furnace sits idle in cold weather, the air in the ducts sits still with it, and whatever is in there stays put until the system runs again.
- 6 months
- November 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's no set schedule that fits every home, but a contractor can tell you if yours needs it by looking inside the ducts. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you've had a rodent problem or a renovation that left dust behind, get it checked sooner rather than later. Homes here run the furnace November through April, so a lot of air moves through those ducts each winter and pulls dust along with it.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It's worth it if you can see dust blowing out of the vents, if a room never gets as warm or cool as the rest of the house, or if someone in the home has ongoing allergy or breathing issues. It won't lower your heating bill or fix a furnace that's struggling, those are separate problems. What it does is clear out what's built up in the ducts so the air moving through them is cleaner.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork, then uses brushes or air tools to knock loose dust and debris from inside the ducts while the vacuum pulls it out through a single access point. Every supply and return vent gets covered, along with the furnace or air handler itself. The filter gets checked too, since that's what catches what's left in the air after the ducts are clean.