What’s Crawling Around in Your Home’s Air Ducts?
It’s not fun to think about, but occasionally dust isn’t the only thing that is in your duct system. You might hear animal noises coming from air ducts and fear you have unwelcome tenants. You can attempt to lure the little guys out but if they’re nesting they may not leave their babies. Call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning for a complete duct cleaning and we will ensure your duct system is clear of all these nasty house guests, such as:
Bugs and Insects
Not much is worse than aiming to kill a spider and seeing it run into the air vent. It’s impossible to get it now and all you can do is lay in your room and imagine the thing laying all those spider babies. You may even swear you hear some racing around your duct system. Fear not. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning will come see you and give you a complete duct cleaning and ensure that spider and any of her creepy-crawly friends are out of there. The offspring, too.
Rodents
When raccoons, mice, and other furry visitors make a home in your duct system, usually through openings in the duct work and fractures in the foundation or home exterior, it causes many issues. First, rodents can leave droppings behind and can ruin anything they come across, including Christmas decorations or baby toys you’re keeping in your attic. Second, animals tend to chew, which can result in exposed wiring. That joined with the twigs and dried grass they’re likely carrying in to build a nest, and now you have quite the fire danger in your attic, behind your walls, and in your duct system. A professional duct cleaning can get rid of rodent droppings or nests, but you may also need to call an expert wildlife removal company to remove the mice, squirrels, or other wildlife and perhaps an electrician if there was any damage to the wiring.
Birds
Birds normally look for safe and sheltered places to nestand your air vents are perfect. Nests mean babies, which means they are finding food for babies, and that means BUGS. If you have birds in your vents, you’ll likely end up with six-legged and eight-legged critters in your home. But that’s not all. Birds assemble nests in your vents, and given the great amount of stuff they use to create said nest, it can result in totally clogging a vent, preventing any airflow. As with our furry friends, a full duct cleaning from Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning can remove any droppings, feathers, or other potential illness-carrying leave-behinds. You could also need a professional wildlife removal company to actually remove the birds from your vents or attics.
Mice in Air Ducts
If you have mice in your ducts, you should take steps to remove them. Mice gnaw wires 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 highway of your residence, they may die in there. This creates an unsanitary situation, and you may notice it due to the smell.
You may suspect mice because of the sounds you hear – lots of scratching and scrabbling inside ductwork. Or you could actually see one making an escape through the heating vents in your house. You might even confirm their status by inspecting the ducts for mice leavings. Either way, if you suspect mice you have some options. You can trap them yourself, by setting traps inside each vent and checking them each morning. Or you could pay for a specialist.
After you have verified that the mice are gone, you really should have your ducts expertly cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been living in the walls, they will have left mice refuse in your ducts. Mice droppings are toxic, and if you leave them in your ducts they can make your household 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 soon or schedule online for a full duct cleaning to help make sure the air you are breathing is healthy and pest-free.