What’s Crawling Around in Your Home’s Air Ducts?
It’s unpleasant to consider, but often times dust isn’t all that is in your duct system. You might hear animal noises coming from air ducts and realize you have unwanted guests. You can try and lure the creatures out but they may be nesting and refuse to leave their babies. Call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning for a comprehensive duct cleaning and we will confirm your duct system is rid of all these unwanted house guests, including:
Insects and Bugs
Nothing is worse than aiming to kill a spider and watching it run into the air vent. It’s impossible to get it now and all you can do is lay in bed and imagine it laying all those spider eggs. You may even think you hear a few scuttling around your duct system. Don’t worry. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning will come out and give you a thorough duct cleaning and assure that spider and any of her yucky friends are evicted. Babies, too.
Rodents
When raccoons, mice, and other furry visitors make a home in your duct system, generally through holes in the duct work and fractures in the foundation or home exterior, it causes many issues. First, rodents can leave droppings behind and can tear up anything they encounter, including seasonal decorations or baby toys you’re storing in your attic. Second, rodents tend to chew, which can leave you with exposed wiring. That combined with the dried leaves and twigs they’re likely carrying in to create a nest, and now there’s quite the fire risk in your attic, behind your walls, and in your duct system. A complete duct cleaning can remove rodent droppings or nests, but you may also need to call a professional animal removal company to remove the furry visitors and possibly an electrician if there was any wire damage.
Birds
Birds usually find safe and sheltered places to nestand your air vents meet that criteria. Nests mean baby birds, which means they are feeding babies, and that means BUGS. If you have birds in your vents, you’ll likely end up with bugs in your home. But that’s not all. Birds build nests in your vents, and given the large amount of stuff they use to create said nest, it can wind up fully clogging a vent, obstructing any airflow. As with rodents, a professional duct cleaning from Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning can eliminate any droppings, feathers, or other likely illness-carrying leave-behinds. You could also need animal control to actually remove the birds from the vents or attics.
Mice in Air Ducts
If you have mice in the air ducts, you should take steps to quickly remove them. Mice nibble on electrical wires and leave feces like all rodents, but they also multiply quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the road system of your residence, they usually die in the ducts. This creates unhealthy living conditions, and you may notice an unsavory odor.
You may suspect mice from the noises you hear – some scratching and scrabbling along walls. Or you could actually notice one making an escape through the air vents in your home. You could even confirm their status by inspecting the ducts for mice feces. Either way, if you suspect mice you have two options. You may trap them yourself, by setting traps inside each vent and checking them each morning. Or you might decide to pay for a specialist.
After you’ve verified that the mice are removed, you should have your ductwork expertly cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been there, they will have left droppings in your ducts. Mice feces are toxic, and if you ignore them in your ducts they can make you sick. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning offers duct cleaning services that will remove most debris from your home’s airways.
Call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning today or schedule online for a thorough duct cleaning to help make sure the air you are breathing is healthy and pest-free.
