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Lookout for Air 1 Duct Cleaning Experts
The duct is used for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning to deliver and extract air. It’s needed for airflows including; supply air, return air, and exhaust air. Air ducts are one way of ensuring acceptable indoor air quality, so is a thermal comfort.
The duct system is known as ductwork, while planning, sizing, detailing, optimizing and finding the pressure losses in the duct system is known as duct design.
Duct work is to distribute air throughout a building or exhaust air outside of a building. The most common duct systems are sheet metal, fiberboard, fiberglass lined and flex-line air ducts.
Indoor air quality
Duct cleaning is the removal of any foreign matter, dirt, and molds from the duct system, at Air 1 we offer duct cleaning and other cleaning services about heating and cooling. There are reasons as to why homeowners choose to have air ducts cleaned and indoor air quality is one. Indoor air quality is the main reason homeowners consider air duct cleaning.
In any home or building, up to dust is created through everyday activities; in a year, it amounts to 40 pounds. The cooling and heating make your home function just like a human lung, where the air duct system takes air in and out.Through occupation of homes and buildings, a lot of activities goes on which generate a great deal of contaminants and air pollutants.
These contaminants are sucked into the HVAC system and re-circulated 5 to 8 times a day, overtime this re-circulation causes a build-up of contaminants in the duct work.
Dirty ducts may not necessarily lead to contaminated air, but they may contribute to contaminants cause serious problems and health issues for people with respiratory health conditions, some environmental allergies or autoimmune disorders.
When constructing the dust work, it is necessary to choose materials that will be easily cleaned and less likely to attract dirt, molds, and any other contaminants.
Energy savings
In a recent research, it is estimated that about 25 to 40 percent of the energy used for heating or cooling in homes and buildings is wasted. Contaminants in the cooling and heating duct system cause it to overwork and eventually shorten its life span. Although filters are installed, they get contaminated through normal use.
When an HVAC system is clean, energy is saved, the efficiency of the system is increased and costs reduced. You probably don’t need to have the duct work, and HVAC system cleaned unless; your house was being renovated, duct work should be sealed off during the renovation.
Mold and other microscopic organisms are dangerous contaminants as they can grow over time and can develop fast since there are favorable conditions in the surroundings, so care should be taken when deciding to do a dust work cleaning on your own, thus, it may be necessary to take a sample of the mold in question and have it tested in a laboratory or else seek professional duct and HVAC system cleaning service providers.
