Furnace Cleaning
Get unwanted debris out of your furnace.
Whenever your furnace is running, it sucks air in, heats or cools it, and then blows through your vents to moderate the temperature of your home. During that process, the travelling air carries dust, pet dander, human hair and skin particles, floating bacteria and a whole world of microscopic life forms. That’s a lot of unwelcome debris building up on fan blades just to adjust the temperature.
Don’t Put Off Cleaning Your Furnace
Whether it’s sanitary or performance reasons, it’s important to do.
All these particles will get built up in your furnace over time. This can create a whole host of issues in your furnace’s performance if they aren’t cleaned and maintained regularly. Dirt and lint in the furnace motor windings and fins on the fan blades will cause your furnace motor to run harder and run the potential of overheating. This forces your system to run longer and harder—driving up your gas and electric bill and also risking key components getting worn out prematurely. That’s just more expensive grief.
If you just bought a home, used or new, you're now breathing in all of those particles from the people that were there before! If they were previous owners, then you’re breathing in all the skin and hair particles and whatever else they brought into the home. No thanks! If it’s a new home, contractors can often leave drywall sanding dust nails, wood, chunks of drywall, even pop cans and half-eaten lunches crammed down heat vents! Some people just don't care.
Unless you call in a true furnace cleaning professional to take a thorough look at your system, you could be exposing yourself to unnecessary risks.
Can’t I Clean the Furnace Myself?
Furnace filters don’t stop everything
The purpose of the furnace filter is to trap dust particles coming through the return air ducts and stop the debris from making its way through the fan blower, through the furnace and back up into your home's living space.
The problem is that most furnace filters are not very good at trapping dust. Inexpensive filters only trap about 8-10% of the dust particles and the rest of those particles make their way into your home. Higher-priced furnace filters trap more dust, but they need to be checked and cleaned regularly. If your return air system is already full of dust, you could be checking your filter daily. If the system has been properly cleaned recently, you might get by with cleaning the high efficient filters every couple of weeks. If you don't, you will burn out your furnace motor and be left with an expensive repair.