Duct Cleaning in Morgan City, LA
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What storms and power loss leave behind in your ducts
St. Mary Parish has had sixteen damaging wind events over the last ten years. Storms like that knock the power out, and in 2024 nearly half of Louisiana households went at least a full day without it. When the power drops, your air handler stops moving air, but dust in the house keeps settling, and some of it settles inside the ducts.
Most homes in the parish are owner-occupied, single-family houses, the kind where the same system runs year after year. Every time it shuts off and starts back up, whatever has collected in the duct gets stirred loose and blown back into the rooms.
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- November through March, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
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- April through October, your air conditioner does the same
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- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- Most homes do fine having it done every few years. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you just finished renovation work, or you moved in and don't know when it was last done, that's reason to move sooner. Homes here run the heat November through March, so having it done in fall before that stretch starts makes sense.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It's worth it when there's a real reason for it, like dust that keeps coming back no matter how often you clean, a musty smell when the air kicks on, or work done on the house that left debris in the vents. It won't lower your heating bill or fix a system that's not heating or cooling right. A contractor can look at your ducts and tell you whether cleaning will actually help your situation.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum to the duct system to pull it under negative pressure, then uses brushes or air tools to knock loose dust and debris from inside the ducts so it gets pulled into the vacuum instead of blown into your rooms. Every supply and return vent gets cleaned, along with the main trunk lines. The furnace or air handler and its coil are often cleaned at the same time, since that's where air from every duct in the house passes through.