Dallas Air Duct Cleaning

Due to the high humidity in Dallas during the spring through fall months you will want to consider having your duct work inspected for mold and other contaminants on a regular basis. It should be relatively easy to find in Dallas air duct cleaning companies to both inspect and if needed, clean your air conditioning ducts.

It doesn’t matter if you are a homeowner, renter or business owner, the quality of air that employees and families breathe is extremely important to the overall well being of anyone who needs to breathe. All you have to do is to go back to the nineteen seventies (1970’s) in Philadelphia and look up Legionnaire’s disease.

Several people died due to an air born contaminant that had reached critical mass in the duct work. Air quality was not much of a concern until more recently when people are worried about the spread of germs and viruses during flu season. All you have to do is watch TV, listen to the radio, surf the internet or read your newspaper to hear about how the Swine Flu is affecting everything from immigration to international travel, tourism and commerce as well.

Many people have respiratory illnesses and weaknesses that make them dependent on a pristine indoor air environment. It doesn’t matter if you are breathing oxygen, if the air around you has contaminants in it because your duct work is full of dust, allergens, dust mites, germs and bacteria or mold.

In Dallas, air duct cleaning companies can be found easily on the internet or in your Yellow Pages. You probably do not want to look for Air Duct Cleaning in the Yellow Pages yet as it is not a classification category for companies yet. Most commercial and residential cleaners offer air duct cleaning, carpet and upholstery cleaning, other cleaning services, disaster restoration services and sanitation services.

Typing in Dallas air duct cleaning into your favorite search engine will return over four hundred thousand results. One of the top results was Dallas Carpet Cleaning. They are located in Dallas and actually have satellite offices in Austin and Houston.

Services offered through Dallas Carpet Cleaning are commercial and residential carpet cleaning, house cleaning, office cleaning, pet odor removal, wood floor refinishing, window cleaning, tile cleaning, upholstery cleaning and fire and water damage restoration services.

The Environmental Protection Agency monitors all types of air quality in factories, monitors plant emissions for both air and water, issues clean air standards and is the agency that all cleaning and purification systems look to for standards.

The EPA has sponsored studies that show since the introduction of homes with more insulation, multiple pane windows, and better construction the air quality in homes is on average two to five times more polluted than the outside air. In some cases of homes with smokers the air is as much as one hundred times more polluted.

This pollution adds serves to increase the chance of contracting respiratory diseases, aggravating existing conditions like asthma, bronchitis or allergies. It also means that the average person is not getting as much clean air as they need and their lungs are working harder to produce the same results.

Most of the contaminants in your home on surfaces, ducts and filters are animal dander, dust mites, mold, mildew and pollen. That's why we put such an important accent on the importance of home air duct cleaning. Mold, fungi and bacteria can multiply in your duct work especially if moisture is introduced in any way. With the high incidence of humidity in the Dallas area much of the year, the possibility of these growths in your ductwork or heating and cooling system are rather high.

Dallas Carpet Cleaning recommends air ducts be completely cleaned, sanitized and treated only every three to five years. More often than that is really overkill, especially if you have installed any kind of additional filtration or electrostatic air cleaning systems in the mean time. The best systems use synchronized powered brushing and vacuuming systems to simultaneously clean and remove the contaminants in your duct work.

Keeping the surfaces in your home as dust free as possible along with using a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter will help keep additional contaminants from getting back into your duct work through cold air return vents. Bag free models are best as they do not release dust when changing the bag. Got something more you want to share about Dallas air duct cleaning? Comments are waiting for you!

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