The air we breathe is essential for our health and comfort, and it's important to keep it clean. To protect the health of your family, it's important to regularly clean your air ducts. This will help remove harmful particles and improve the air quality in your home. As more contaminants accumulate in the air ducts, the worse the air quality will be. The goal of cleaning air ducts is to disinfect, disinfect and deodorize them to remove build-up.
Professional duct cleaning service providers can help you achieve this. They may also suggest applying chemical treatments (sealants or other encapsulants) to encapsulate or cover the inner surfaces of air ducts and equipment housings. Sealants should never be used on the damp lining of ducts, to cover mold that is growing, or to cover dirt in ducts. They should only be applied after cleaning in accordance with NADCA or other appropriate guidelines or regulations. Air duct cleaning methods vary, although industry associations that deal with air duct cleaning have established standards. If no member of your family has allergies or unexplained symptoms or illnesses and if, after a visual inspection of the inside of the ducts, you see no signs that the air ducts are contaminated with large deposits of dust or mold (there is no musty smell or visible mold growth), the air ducts probably don't need to be cleaned. When service providers come to your home, ask them to show you the contamination that would justify cleaning the ducts.
However, there is little evidence that cleaning only the ducts improves system efficiency. Since the conditions in every home are different, it's impossible to generalize about whether cleaning your home's air ducts would be beneficial or not. Most organizations that deal with duct cleaning, including the EPA, NADCA, NAIMA, and SMACNA, do not currently recommend the routine use of sealants to encapsulate contaminants in any type of duct. Air duct cleaning service providers can tell you that they must apply a chemical biocide to the inside of the ducts to kill bacteria (germs) and fungi (mold) and prevent future biological growth. You can consider cleaning the air ducts simply because it seems logical that they will become dirty over time and must be cleaned from time to time. Your ducts are essential for keeping you and your family comfortable, but they may need professional cleaning from time to time. By cleaning your air duct system, you're also improving the air quality in your home or business to create a cleaner, healthier environment.
