Furnace and Duct Tips

Important components and related maintenance and/or cleaning

Relevant tips and add-ons for your HVAC system

Below you will find information tips about important elements of your system, take care of them and they will take care of you!

The frequency of duct cleaning varies greatly from home to home. There are a number of factors that might make your ductwork and its components dirty:

  1. Household pets
  2. Number of people living in the home
  3. Use of the HVAC System
  4. Environmental factors such as dust storms or low air quality events
  5. Size of home
  6. Configuration of the HVAC system
  7. Components of the HVAC System

If you have severe allergies or have recently done home renovations, a shorter-than-usual cleaning interval could be beneficial.

Besides this being a leading cause of house fires if not maintained. General maintenance and cleaning is essential for the HVAC system.

Access to the outside causes cold air to mix with moisture and lint causing blockages in the vent. If a blockage occurs the excess heat and moisture will be unable to escape causing increased drying times or the safety to trigger completely turning off the dryer before the set time and in some cases may even start a fire.

Cleaned from the outside ( no damage to dryer vent ).

More information on dryer vent cleaning ...

look at the bottom of your cold air intakes you should be able to see a warning label. This warning label will go over the health risks regarding lack of maintenance or upkeep on your Intakes.

The purpose of the fresh air furnace intake is to draw in new outside air to your furnace. Meaning it also takes in all dust, allergens, and VOC’s.

Some new furnaces also have an exhaust to the outside as well. These vents are probably the dirtiest vents in your home.

Removes the dust in the AC coil

Increases the efficiency of the AC coil

Helps the furnace remove the cool air.

Importance of Scheduled Cleaning:

It becomes a fire hazard (creosote build-up) if not maintained and cleaned regularly.

Chimney can become clogged with debris that can turn into a health hazard.

Clogged debris can plummet back down the chimney.

Recommended: to clean every 1 cord of wood Tip!

Kills and removes bacteria, mold and other contaminants from your ductwork system. Applied as a mist throughout the entire duct work, coating all sides.
Suggested if a cleaning has not been done over a significant time period, kids, pets or have a humidifier adding humidity to your duct work.

Learn more about this add on Sanitizer

Benefits:

Washable filter guaranteed for LIFE!

Allows for sufficient air flow to reach the furnace.

Stops and traps a minimum of 85 percent of dust and other fine particles. Compared to the standard disposable filters usually averaging around 15 percent.

Peak Webbing design ( No Foam )

Recommended: Clean every month

Benefits:

Helps prevent dry skin, sinus congestion, dry throat, nose irritation, bloody noses, dry cough and cracked lips.

Helps prevent the cracking and separation damage to hardwood floors and other wooden finishing in your household

Allows for a more customization to your environment inside your home.

Save on energy bills and heating costs

Mineral deposits form over the anti-bacterial pad reducing the pads ability to absorb water.

Warm water moving through the pad causes the water to evaporate. Having a large build up of deposits will restrict the amount of water running through your pad, therefore reducing the efficiency of your humidifier.

Changing the humidifier pad is simple, cheap and quick!

Recommended every 6 months to 1 year

Blockages are quite common to occur in the central vacuum lines causing reduced suction or even no suction at all.

Cleaning the lines of the unit allows for the safe removal of dust, dirt, and debris

Recommended to clean depending on its use. More on central vacuum cleaning ... 

A professional in safety gear services a furnace and duct system in a Calgary, Alberta home.

CONSEQUENCES OF A DIRTY DUCTWORK SYSTEM

There are many downsides to a clogged dirty system, here are the top 5:

In the winter, dirt-clogged heat exchangers cannot warm the air as efficiently. In the summer, dirt-clogged coils are unable to cool the air as well. These are just examples of how it affects the heating and cooling systems runtime, requiring it to use more fuel and energy to heat and cool your home.

Dirt and dust restrict air flow. Even when your system is doing a good job heating and cooling the air, if the blower fan or motor can’t turn because of dirt or the air filter is clogged with dust, then the system can’t effectively circulate that properly warmed or cooled air throughout your home.

The longer your heating and cooling system operates, the more wear and tear it undergoes. Long run times can shorten the overall lifetime of HVAC systems, from AC compressors to hydro pumps, burners, and motor bearings. You’ll wear out your home’s HVAC system much sooner than expected.

The clogged ‘dirt’ in your system is, in reality, a combination of fine dirt, dead skin, pet dander, bacteria, pollen, mold spores, fungi, and even pet feces. These are left to contaminate your air and reduce the indoor quality of your air up to 70 times compared to outdoor air.

Dirt and dust spread quicker in a home with dirty ducts. No matter how much you may dust and clean your home, these fine particulate contaminants, including dangerous allergens, quickly flow from room to room and cycle throughout the house. this cycle turns into an endless cleaning battle that never ends.

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