What is Air Duct Cleaning?

Air Duct Cleaning – What is it and How to Do it

Air duct cleaning is an important cleaning services for homeowners. Air duct cleaning means having all your duct system, including the supply, intake and return vents cleaned using professional air duct cleaning equipment. In addition, air duct cleaning may also include cleaning the registers, grills, fans, the HVAC unit and cleaning the furnace if you have one.

Air duct cleaning companies, like Safe House Air Duct have a variety of professional duct cleaning equipment designed to clean your air ducts and make them a healthier living environment in your home. Having your air ducts cleaned is recommended every three to five years, though in some cases two to three years would be the optimal time for best results and maintenance.

How Do Professionals Clean Air Ducts?

The whole cleaning process can be divided into 3 steps: pre-inspection, duct cleaning, a final walk-through inspection.

Step 1. Pre-inspection.

The air duct technician, after arriving to your location, will inspect the air duct system. Checking all the access points to the duct work, assessing its condition (by looking inside) and then decide which cleaning technique that would be best in your home’s case. After checking the duct work, the cleaning will begin.

Step 2. Air Duct Cleaning Process: Negative Pressure & Debris Removal.

Afterwards, the technician will arrange the vacuum collection unit – it is important to create negative air pressure in the air ducts to make sure dust, dirt and other debris do not spread around the house and get collected in to the vacuum collection unit. After setting this up, the technician will start hitting the walls of the duct work, taking out the pollutant like duct, dirt, pollen, bacteria and other icky stuff stuck on the ducts walls out.

Step 3. Final Walk-through Inspection.

When the cleaning is done, another inspection of the air ducts is required to make sure nothing was missed and the ducts are thoroughly cleaned. If you want to make sure your ducts are cleaned properly, call only professional companies like Safe House Air Duct Cleaning. We have years of experience in duct cleaning of residential and commercial properties, and we would be happy to serve you as well.