Duct Cleaning in Clayton, NC
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Seven months of heat pushing dust through the same ducts
Your furnace runs October through April here, seven months of the year. Every one of those months it is pulling air through the same ducts, and whatever settles in them rides along with it into your rooms.
Johnston County has seen 164 damaging wind events and 7 winter storms over the past ten years, and a quarter of North Carolina households lost power for at least a day in 2024. A furnace that sits idle through an outage, then kicks back on, stirs up whatever collected in the ducts while it was off. In a house that is closed up tight against those 33°F winter nights, that is the air you are breathing until spring.
- 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's no fixed schedule that fits every home. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you've had renovation work that left drywall dust in the system, it's worth doing sooner rather than later. Pets and recent construction are the two biggest reasons to clean sooner than you otherwise would.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It's worth it when there's a real reason for it, like dust coming out of the vents, a smell you can't place, or recent work done on the ductwork. It won't lower your heating bills or fix an airflow problem on its own. If you're not seeing dust, smell, or mold, cleaning ducts just to do it isn't necessary.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum to the duct system to pull air through it while agitating the inside of the ducts with brushes or air tools to knock dust and debris loose. Each supply and return vent gets cleaned this way, along with the main trunk lines. The furnace or air handler and the coil often get looked at too, since dust builds up there as well.