What to Expect From A Duct Cleaners Visit

Indoor air ducts need regular cleaning to ensure the best performance and effectiveness. Unclean ducts often hold viruses, bacteria and mold which can harm your health. At some point, you might decide to have your duct cleaned by a professional cleaning company. The service provider should always do the following steps:

• The actual process of duct cleaning requires the right equipment. It's a messy procedure, so the service technicians need to inform you in advance to prepare the property;
• To open all the access ports/doors to allow the entire ventilation system to be firstly inspected and then cleaned;
• All well-experienced and trained duct cleaners will inspect and then clean the heating/cooling systems with Asbestos- containing materials. These materials always require specialized procedures and should not be disturbed or removed except by specially trained and equipped duct technicians;
• During the process, the cleaners will use vacuum equipment, which exhausts particles outside the house or will use only high-efficiency particle air;
• A reliable contractor will make sure all the carpet and household furnishing is well protected;
• To clean the duct, they will use well-controlled brushing of duct surfaces combined with contact vacuum cleaning to dislodge all the dust and other particles build up in the ventilation systems;
• To clean the fibre-glass duct board, professional duct cleaners will use again only soft- bristled brushes. They will take care to protect the duct work, including the sealing and re-insulating any access holes that the service provider may have made or used;
• Reliable duct cleaners MUST always follow NADCA's standards for air duct cleaning and they need to provide a certificate;

How to check if the duct cleaners did a successful job?

The most obvious way to verify the cleanness of your ventilation systems is by your visual inspection. However, some duct cleaning services providers use remote photography pictures to document the conditions inside the ducts. All portions of the ventilation system should be visibly clean- you should not be able to detect any debris with a naked eye inspection. Show the check list on the next page to the service provider before the work begins. After the cleaning is fully completed, ask the duct cleaner to show you each component of your ventilation system to verify all the job was performed satisfactory and your duct is absolutely cleaned and safe.

However, if you answer “no” or “not sure” to any of the listed statements, this might indicate a problem with the duct cleaning performance. As such you need immediately to ask your provider to correct any deficiencies. Most home-owners wonder how they would clean the ducts since plant pullet, animal dandruff, smoke, dust mites and even mold spores can accumulate in them.