Duct Cleaning in Canton, GA
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Seven months of forced air, running through the same ducts
Your furnace runs October through April here, close to seven months a year. Every one of those months, the same ducts carry the air through your house, and whatever is sitting in them moves too. Dust, pet hair, the dry skin cells every household sheds. Over that many months it settles into the runs and builds up on the inside walls of the duct.
Cherokee County has seen its share of storms, six winter storms and 149 damaging wind events over the past ten years. Power drops with those, and across Georgia last year nearly a third of households lost power for at least 24 hours at some point. When the system sits off and then kicks back on, it can stir up what has settled in the ducts and push it into the air moving through your house.
- 7 months
- October through April, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 5 months
- May through September, your air conditioner does the same
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There's no fixed number of years that works for every house. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you just finished a renovation that kicked up drywall dust, clean them sooner rather than later. Ducts that stay closed up and dry don't collect much, so a contractor looking at your actual runs can tell you if it's time.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It's worth it if you can see dust blowing out of the vents, or if a register hasn't been opened in years and you want to know what's actually in there. It won't lower your heating bill or fix a furnace that's struggling, so don't expect that from it. What it does is remove the dust and debris sitting in the duct runs so it's not being pushed into the rooms you breathe in.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork and uses brushes or air tools to loosen dust and debris from inside the runs, then pulls it out through the vacuum. Each supply and return register gets opened and cleaned, along with the main trunk lines. The furnace or air handler itself, including the blower compartment, usually gets cleaned at the same time since that's where the air picks up whatever's built up.