Duct Cleaning in Fort Morgan, CO
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Eight months of heating fills your ducts
Your furnace runs October through May here, eight months out of the year. Winter nights average 16°F from December through February, so the blower is pushing air through those ducts most of the day and night for most of the year. Every cycle carries dust into the duct runs, and a heating season this long gives it that much more time to settle.
Morgan County has had 55 damaging wind events over the past ten years. Wind that strong pushes dust into a house through whatever gaps it can find, and the return pulls that dust straight into the ductwork. Between the wind and the long heating season, there is more for the ducts to collect and less time of year when they get a break from it.
- 8 months
- October through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 3 months
- June through August, your air conditioner does the same
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- Most homes do fine with duct cleaning every few years, and a contractor can tell you what your ducts look like now. If anyone in the house has allergies, or pets shed near the return vents, it makes sense to check sooner rather than wait. Homes here run the furnace October through May, eight months of the year, so a good bit of the year's dust moves through those ducts on furnace air. That is worth keeping in mind, but a look inside the ducts tells you more than any schedule can.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on what is in the ducts. If you can see dust building up at the vents, or a room fills with a musty smell when the furnace kicks on, cleaning solves a real problem. If the ducts are new or were cleaned recently and nobody in the house has breathing trouble, there may be nothing to gain right now. A contractor can look inside the ducts with a camera and tell you honestly whether cleaning will make a difference in your house.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum to the duct system and uses brushes or air tools to knock dust and debris loose from the inside of the ducts, then pulls it out through that vacuum connection. The supply and return vents get cleaned too, along with the coil and blower area if the furnace is due for that. The whole job is done room by room, working through the house so nothing gets missed.