Duct Cleaning in Detroit, MI
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Eight months of heat pushes a lot of air through those ducts
Your furnace runs October through May here, eight months a year. On nights that average 21°F, it cycles on and off again and again to hold the house. Every cycle pushes air through the ducts, and everything riding in that air, dust, pet hair, skin cells, settles in the bends and joints over a season.
Wayne County has logged 14 winter storms and 142 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and across Michigan, over a third of households lost power for at least 24 hours in 2024. Each outage and restart stirs up what has settled in the ducts and sends another round through the system before the furnace settles back into its rhythm.
- 8 months
- October through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 3 months
- June through August, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There is no fixed schedule that fits every house. Have a contractor look if anyone in the house has allergies, if you have pets, or if you just finished a remodel. Homes here run the furnace October through May, so dust and pet hair move through the system for most of the year and settle in the ducts. If you can see dust blowing out of the vents or gathering right at the vent covers, that is a sign to get them checked sooner rather than later.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It is worth it when there is a real reason for it, like visible dust at the vents, a musty smell when the furnace or AC kicks on, or work done on the ducts themselves. It will not fix an allergy problem on its own and it will not lower a heating bill by itself. Where it does help is keeping dust and debris from recirculating through a house that runs its furnace most of the year. If nothing about your air or your vents has changed, cleaning without a reason behind it is not likely the best use of your money.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork and uses brushes or air whips to knock dust loose from the inside of the ducts, then pulls it out through the vacuum. The supply vents, return vents, and the main trunk lines all get cleaned, along with the coil and blower compartment if they're accessible. A licensed contractor will check the whole system first and tell you what actually needs attention in your ducts before starting.