Signs You Need Duct Cleaning For Your Vero Beach Home
Category: Air Duct Cleaning
You may not be thinking much about your home’s air ducts, or you may be so used to looking at them day in and day out that you don’t notice them. In fact, if they’re located on your ceiling area, they’re high up and not going to be in an area we constantly focus on anyway.
Ducts can get very dirty before we notice they need cleaning, but it’s not always visible signs that can lead us to questions if we should even worry about them.
With all our articles in the past about your duct work, and all you’ve probably already heard elsewhere, by now you probably know that duct cleaning needs to be done and why. In case you haven’t, it’s for your health’s sake and for the health of your mechanical systems in your home. Dirty air means dirty lungs and equipment and simply put, our lungs and machinery don’t function well under those conditions.
But how do you tell if it’s really time to clean your ducts, and what’s the tipping point on knowing when you really MUST get it done or risk your health? That’s a good question because like most of us, we’d rather put off something that’s really out of sight.
Signs You Need Duct Cleaning
Dirty Walls, Dirty Ceiling – One sure way to tell it’s PAST time to clean your ducts is when there ceiling or wall areas around your ducts are turning black. This is dirt and soot coming from the ducts. It’s dirty air that you’re breathing in and out every day.
Dirty Vent Covers – Every duct has a vent cover over it and a sure way to tell you need your ducts cleaned is vents that get fuzzy with dirty dust particles. Your walls or ceiling may not have black spots on them yet, but that will surely happen eventually. For now the sign your ducts are dirty is the vent covers that you need to clean.
Floating Particles – Another way to tell you have dirty air circulating through your ducts is by taking a look at your air as the sun filters through it. Go to a window in your home in the mornings or evenings and try to look at the air at an angle. Many times, the sun will shine off the dust particles and you can actually see much of it floating around in your air. If you don’t see anythings, take a pillow or throw blanket and give it a pop and watch what all comes off it and floats around now…yuck!
Dusty Furnishings – That brings us to the final clue, and that is dirty, dusty furniture. If you’re constantly having to clean dust off or notice your blankets, pillows, or even linen furniture are getting dusty a lot, it’s due to too much dust in your air for your air filter to handle.
When your home’s ducts need cleaning, call the professionals at Star Quality Air Conditioning. We’ll have your ducts cleaned in a jiffy and can help you get the rest of your home’s air cleaned up as well. Give us a call for a friendly quote for affordable duct cleaning in Vero Beach and nearby areas today!
