Duct Cleaning in Caliente, NV
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Caliente's dust has somewhere to go, and it's your ducts
Your furnace runs from October through May here, eight months out of the year. That's a long stretch of pulling air through the same ducts, night after night when temperatures drop to 27°F. Dust and the fine grit that blows in off the desert settle in that ductwork long before you notice anything at the vents.
Thirty damaging wind events have hit this county over the past ten years. Wind like that drives dust into a house through every gap it can find, and the duct system pulls a share of it in every time the furnace kicks on. Once it settles in the ducts, it rides along with the air the furnace pushes through your home all winter.
- 8 months
- October through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 4 months
- June through September, your air conditioner does the same
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- Most homes do fine having their ducts cleaned every few years, though there's no fixed schedule that fits every house. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you've had a rodent problem or a water leak near the ductwork, it's worth doing sooner. A contractor can look at your ducts and tell you whether they need attention now or can wait.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on why you're considering it. If you can see dust blowing out of the vents, or notice a musty smell when the furnace kicks on, cleaning the ducts will help. It won't lower your heating bill or fix a furnace that's struggling, so if that's the goal, have a contractor look at the equipment itself first.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum to the duct system and uses brushes or compressed air tools to knock loose dust and debris from inside the ducts, then pulls it out through the vacuum. This includes the supply and return ducts, the grilles and registers, and sometimes the blower compartment where air first enters the system. The furnace filter is a separate part and doesn't get cleaned this way, it gets replaced.