Duct Cleaning in Macon-Bibb County, GA
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What Macon-Bibb's power outages leave behind in your ducts
Georgia households went without power for 24 hours or more at a high rate in 2024, and Bibb County has seen 55 damaging wind events over the past ten years. Every time the power drops, your furnace or air handler stops pushing air, and when it kicks back on, anything sitting in the ducts gets stirred up and blown back into the house.
Your furnace only needs to run November through March here, five months where nights average 36°F. The rest of the year the ducts sit still, collecting dust between uses. That combination, long idle stretches broken up by storm-related outages, is what lets buildup settle into the ductwork instead of getting cycled through and out.
- 5 months
- November through March, 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 schedule that fits every house. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you've had a pest problem or water leak into the ductwork, it's worth having them cleaned. A musty smell when the furnace or air conditioner kicks on is a sign to have someone look at them now rather than wait.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on what's going on in your ducts. If you're seeing dust build up fast around vents, or you know there's debris, mold, or rodent activity in the system, cleaning solves a real problem. If your ducts are in normal shape and you're just changing filters on schedule, cleaning them won't do much you'd notice. A contractor can look inside the ducts with a camera and tell you whether it's needed before you pay for it.
- 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 duct walls so it can be pulled out through the vacuum. Every supply and return vent in the house gets opened and cleaned this way, along with the main trunk lines. The furnace or air handler often gets a look too, since dust collects around the blower and coil.