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Duct Cleaning in Carlsbad, NM

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Two flexible silver HVAC ducts running through a dark wooden attic, lit by light rays entering through a louvered wall vent.

Wind events here push dust straight into your ducts

Eddy County has logged 222 damaging wind events over the past ten years. Wind like that carries dust, and dust finds its way into a house through door gaps, attic vents, and the return air opening. Once it is inside, the duct system pulls it through the house every time the blower runs.

Your furnace runs from November through March here, on nights that average 31°F. That is five months of the blower moving air, and whatever dust got in during those wind events, through the ducts and into the rooms of the house.

5 months
November through March, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
5 months
May through September, your air conditioner does the same
Isometric cutaway illustration of a single-story house with a shingled roof, showing interior rooms with furniture and a network of white ducts and pipes running through the ceiling space.
Your ducts carry heat November through March and cooled air May through September.

NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals

How often should air ducts be cleaned?
Most houses do fine having their ducts cleaned every few years, not on a fixed yearly schedule. Homes with pets, a smoker, or someone with allergies may need it sooner because more gets pulled into the return air. If you see dust kicking out of the vents when the furnace kicks on, that is a sign to move it up rather than wait.
Is air duct cleaning worth it?
It helps most when there is a real reason behind it, like dust buildup, a recent renovation, or rodents or mold found in the ducts. If the ducts look clean and nobody in the house has breathing trouble, cleaning them on a strict schedule will not do much you can feel. A contractor can look at the actual ductwork and tell you whether there is buildup worth removing.
What does air duct cleaning involve?
A contractor connects a vacuum system to the ductwork and uses brushes or air tools to knock loose dust and debris from inside the ducts, then pulls it out through the vacuum. This covers the supply and return ducts, the grilles, and usually the coil and blower housing on the furnace or air handler. The filter gets replaced or cleaned as part of the job since it catches most of what gets stirred up.
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