Is Having Your Air Ducts Cleaned Worth It

In response to this reply should your ducts be cleaned i have to politely correct the person who answered this.

Is having your air ducts cleaned worth it.

You are not using common sense. While the debate about the value of periodic duct cleaning continues no evidence suggests that such cleaning would be detrimental provided that it is done properly. The short answer is no but to answer this question more in depth this article will discuss what air duct cleaning is the pros and cons of having your air ducts cleaned whether or not you should spend the money and if not what you should be doing instead. Having your ducts cleaned may actually create a dust problem or make an existing problem worse.

You may not want to have your house air circulated through a duct passage that is not as clean as the rest of the house. An air duct cleaning shouldn t be treated as an add on to a carpet cleaning visit. If you have allergies or other health problems put in an electronic air cleaner get your ducts cleaned and run the fan as much as you can afford. In the 1990s the canada mortgage and housing corporation cmhc tested 33 homes in montreal before and after duct cleaning finding no significant improvement in air quality and that duct cleaning alone did not improve airflow or energy efficiency.

So it s wise to budget for the real cost of a legitimate cleaning every seven to 10 years. That means it draws air into the furnace it. And while it can be costly to get it done right an annual air duct cleaning isn t necessary for most people. Second the duct system in a house is a circulatory system.

Duct cleaning may be justifiable to you personally for that very reason.