Have you had your ducts cleaned?

[binny]

Not ducks, DUCTS

Like your air conditioning/heater ducts.



We had them done in our last house but havent here yet. Thats on my list before winter though. Have you seen how nasty those things get? BLECH

 

[Lil_Tink]

Well If I had a duck It would be cleaned...

Lol, Just kidding. We dont use our AC.

 

[JennInTN]

Definately.
Cuts down on airborne allergins and such.

 

[Luvthisstuff]

Regularly

 

[binny]

Regularly

ok define regularly please

once a year, every 6 months? I honestly dont know how often youre supposed to have this done.

 

[ADisneygirl]

We get the vents cleaned once a year while the guy is here doing his other once a year maintenance jobs.

 

[jonestavern]

we had this done when we lived in Corinth, TX. Our neighbors had the duct work cleaned on a yearly basis.
Strangely, no one here seems to do it
I would like to know if it is possible to do this ourselves. I do vacuum & wash the grates, but I'd sure like the ducts to be clean!

Jean

 

[golfgal]

We had ours cleaned last fall. The guy that did it said you don't need to do this again unless you do construction in your house, mainly drywalling anything. They don't get that dirty with regular daily life as long as you use a filter on your furnace. Most people don't have them cleaned after they build or if you are in an older home, they just have never been done. It does cut down on the amount of dust you have in your house.

 

[chrissyk]

We had it done in a house where we removed the carpet and had sand-down hardwood installed. I think that we got majorly ripped off by the duct cleaning company, and I really don't think that they did anything for the money. I would not waste my money having this "service" done ever again.

 

[MeanLaureen]

Not ducks, DUCTS

Thank you for the image of colonics for waterfowl.

Haven't had it done at home (could be that pesky problem that we don't have ducts - or ducks - but I digress) but we had it done at work. The dingalings that installed our system when the store was built put the returns in backwards and alllll the humidity that was being sucked out of the store was sucked right back in and everything was molding. All the employees kept getting sinus infections. It was icky!

 

[binny]

Thank you for the image of colonics for waterfowl.

 

[kejoda]

Thank you for the image of colonics for waterfowl.

The stores are going to be running out of Monitors soon.

 

[Kahana-ri]

Always! DH has a HVAC business. We have the cleanest ducts and vents in the neighborhood.

 

[Tinijocaro]

Here's an article by the EPA on this subject I read last week.

http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/airduct.html