duct cleaning

The Duct Cleaning Process

Duct Cleaning

As mentioned before we offer Duct Cleaning along with a number of indoor air quality products to address indoor air pollution which the Environmental Protection Agency ranks as on of the top five threats to the public. This page will explain our duct cleaning process and the benefits our system offers. The average home cost about $850 to clean regardless of company if done correctly. Meaning not only are the registers cleaned, the runs to each vent are cleaned all the way back to the main supply and return trunks, the main supply and return trunks are cleaned through the entire trunk, and the furnace itself is cleaned. We also offer a sterilizing agent that can be sprayed into your home's system to kill bacteria that remain in the duct work even after the dust and mothballs are removed. To learn more about the dangers of indoor air pollution click this hotlink to the Nature's Home Fact Sheet.

Our cleaning process begins with us pulling our duct cleaning unit (pictured left) up to your home. Next we will lay sheets throughout your home so as not to mark your carpet in anyway. We will then run our none mark debris hose along the sheets already laid down (pictured right) from our duct trailer and attach it directly to the main supply trunk of your home's existing duct work (pictured left). We then start the duct cleaning unit and walk around your home and block off each register in order to create a strong vacuum throughout the entire duct system. This causes the dust in your system to flow back into our duct cleaning unit where it is captured by filters and is later cleaned away from your home (pictured right).

While the vacuum is created in the duct work we first clean each register and supply run back into the main supply trunk. We do this in a two part process in which we first spray off the visible dust with a compressed air gun. Then we clean the dust you cannot see using flex whip down each run back into the main trunk (pictured left).

After this step is completed for every run and register this leaves what dust is left in the main supply trunk. So we cut in a small hole in the main

supply and run a larger whip down the main trunk to get the dust completely cleaned out of the system. Once this is completed we repeat the process for the return air portion of the duct system. We then clean the furnace itself and after this is done the job is completed.

We remove all hoses, sheets, and unblock all the registers. Give you the before and after photos that show the quality job you received, and leave your home exactly how it was before we arrived but with a lot less dust and better indoor air.

Before and After Photos

Compare these two photos. The photo on the left is before and the one on the right is after. All the dust on the edges of of the wood make the picture look blurry. The after photo shows nice clean edges on the wood and the spackle that was spayed in to the duct work is clearly visible. Where in the before photo there was a coating of dust. This level of dust is not uncommon take a look behind the return air registers in your home.

These photos are of a main return trunk. Red labeling on the inside of duct work show that it is the same run before and after even though the camera was placed at slightly different angles. Notice the large dust balls that were removed by our system and how once the dust was removed the cross-brakes in the sheet metal become visible. Where in the before photo a layer of dust cover the entire run and the cross-brakes can't be easily recognized.