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What you Can't see Can Hurt You

A home or office is only as clean as its heating and cooling ductwork. The air in these areas is circulated through the ductwork. With people spending as much as 90% of each day indoors, indoor air quality should be a major concern.

Never before have we known so much about pollutants and their effects on your health. Recent studies discovered that air quality in 19 out of 20 homes was considerably more polluted than air outside.

Most people would be dismayed and shocked if they could look inside their own ductwork. The intricate maze of air ducts, vents and heating and cooling systems designed to make your home or office comfortable, may in fact, be making you uncomfortable or maybe even sick. Even the mose careful housekeeper cannot prevent a gradual accumulation of pollutants, such as mold, mildew and dust mites, to name just a few. These impurities commonly cause allergic reactions, breathing difficulties, infections and disease. If your home is one year old or more, these contaminants could be clinging to every square inch of your air duct system.

Why Do We Need Our Furnace & Ducts Cleaned?

Why Your Filter Can't Keep Contaminants Out Of Your Ducts

What good is a new filter when your dirty ducts deliver the air you breathe? No filter, not even the expensive electronic kind, is 100% effective at filtering out contaminants from your duct system. What's more, harmful contaminants also get into your ducts from other places aside from where your filter is located. Once air goes through your filter it's sucked through the machinery that makes up your furnace or air conditioner. As a result, every time your system turns on, its moving parts and vibration shake up the dust that typically settles in your ducts—and the air that just went through your filter now blows that dust into your home. In addition, the process of heating or cooling your home creates the kind of temperature and humidity changes in your ducts that enable the growth of unhealthy mold, fungus, and bacteria.

How To Tell If You Have Air Duct Contaminants That Could Harm You

While unhealthy contaminants are mostly microscopic, there are some ways for you to detect if these bugs might be blowing out of your ducts and into the air that your breathe. Do people who live in your home suffer from allergy, sinus or bronchial problems? (Airborne contaminants in the home are a major cause of these illnesses.) Are there soiled or discolored areas around your vent covers?Any unusual odors when the furnace or air conditioner is operating? Have you experienced a recent fire, water loss or flooding? How about recent remodeling or construction? If you have even the slightest suspicion that your ducts may be contaminated, now is the time to call JT Duct Cleaning to find out for sure. Like good health, the earlier you discover a problem the easier it is to cure it.