What’s Crawling Around in Your Home’s Air Ducts?
You don’t want to think about it, but often times dust isn’t all that is in your duct system. You may hear animal noises coming from air ducts and notice you have unwanted tenants. You can pull out all the stops to lure the creatures out but if they’re nesting they may not leave their babies. Call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning for a comprehensive duct cleaning and we will assure your duct system is rid of all these uninvited house guests, such as:
Insects and Bugs
Not much is worse than trying to kill a spider and watching is escape into an air vent. It’s out of reach now and all you can do is sit in your room and imagine the thing laying all those baby spiders. You may even believe you hear a couple scurrying around your duct system. Fear not. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning will come see you and give you a thorough duct cleaning and ensure that spider and any of her creepy-crawly friends are good and gone. The offspring, too.
Rodents
When rats, squirrels, and other wildlife find themselves in your duct system, normally through openings in the duct work and cracks in the foundation or home exterior, it causes several issues. First, furry critters can leave droppings behind and can destroy anything they get into, including Christmas decorations or old baby clothes you’re storing in your attic. Second, those little guys tend to chew, which can result in exposed wiring. That joined with the dried leaves and twigs they’re likely taking in to create a nest, and now there’s quite the fire risk in your attic, duct system, and behind your walls. A thorough duct cleaning can eliminate rodent droppings or nests, but you may also need to call a professional animal removal company to remove the rodents and possibly an electrician if there was any damage to the wiring.
Birds
Birds usually get into safe and warm places to nestand your air vents meet that criteria. Nests mean eggs, which means they are feeding babies, and that means BUGS. If you find birds in your vents, you’ll probably end up with six-legged and eight-legged critters in your home. But that’s not the worst part. Birds build nests in your vents, and given the vast amount of leaves and grass they use to assemble said nest, it can wind up totally clogging a vent, preventing any airflow. As with mice, squirrels, etc., a full duct cleaning from Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning can remove any droppings, feathers, or other likely illness-carrying leave-behinds. You might also need a professional wildlife removal company to actually remove the birds from air vents or attics.
Mice in Air Ducts
If there are mice in your air ducts, you should take steps quickly to remove them. Mice chew through wiring and leave droppings like most rodents, but they also grow their population quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the beltway of your residence, they may die in there. This creates unhealthy living conditions, and you may notice an unsavory odor.
You may guess mice due to the noises you hear – some scratching and scrabbling in walls. Or you might actually see one making an escape through the vents in your walls. You might even confirm their presence by inspecting the ducts for mice feces. Either way, if you think there’s mice you have a couple options. You can trap them yourself, by placing traps inside each vent and checking them every morning. Or you might decide to hire a specialist.
Once you’ve determined that the mice are gone, you should have your air ducts professionally cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been living in the walls, they will have left feces in your ducts. Mice leavings are toxic, and if you leave them in your ducts they can make you and your family sick. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning offers duct cleaning services that will clean out most debris from your home’s air ducts.
Call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning soon or schedule online for a full duct cleaning to help make sure the air you are breathing is healthy and pest-free.
