Expert Chimney Sweep, Air Duct & Dryer Vent Cleaning in Edmonton, AB

Ducts cleaning is an important part of any home or business maintenance. A dirty air duct can affect your health by lowering the quality of the air, encouraging the circulation of allergens and bacteria. One way to keep your indoors air free from unnecessary pollutants is to keep the air ducts of your heating and cooling systems clean. Moreover, dirty or blocked ducts can decrease the deficiency of your air conditioning system and increase energy costs.

Air ducts are just like the respiratory system of a human body. Air circulates in your house or business through the hidden air ducts. The air conditioning system pumps up the hot air heated up in the furnace in winter time and the cold air generated by the cooling device in summer time, sending air to the vents around the house. When the air conditioning system is running, contaminants like dust, pollen, pet hair and animal dander are brought into the system through the return air vents. They get deposited in the air ducts. Vents on the floor level are inevitably laden with dirt and mud, brought in from the house doors or just from your indoor plants. These contaminants will eventually enter the air ducts in which they produce mildews and germs that can jeopardize your health. Since ordinary cleaning is not able to reach the very deep inside of the air ducts, only professionals with special machines can help you thoroughly clean up the air conditioning system.

At least every 2 years. If you or one of your family members have respiratory problems such as asthma or allergy to pollens, or if you are living in relatively dusty neighborhood, you should clean your ducts more often.

We use our truck mount vacuum machine and high pressure air blow gun to clean up the whole air conditioning system. We will first open some holes on the air ducts to hook up an 8 -10 inch diameter hose to the air conditioning system and connect this hose to our powerful truck mount vacuum machine (air volume 20000 cubic feet per minute). When the vacuum machine is turned on, it generates huge negative pressure. Contaminants in your air conditioning system would be extracted through the hose to the vacuum machine outside. At the meantime, we use a high pressure air gun (air pressure 250 pounds per square inch) combined with the roller brush to clean up the air vents and floor/ceiling registers one by one and help draw the contaminants to the vacuum machine.

The best time for ducts cleaning depends on several factors. Duct cleaning companies will tell you every year or two, but that is a rather vague answer. Based on our experience, here are some guidelines in determining when to have your air ducts cleaned.