What’s Crawling Around in Your Home’s Air Ducts?
It’s not fun to think about, but sometimes dust isn’t exclusively what is in your duct system. You might hear animal noises coming from air ducts and fear you have unwelcome guests. You can attempt to lure the creatures 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 free of all these uninvited house guests, for instance:
Insects and Bugs
Not much is worse than working to kill a spider and watching is escape into your air vent. It’s impossible to get it now and all you can do is sit on the couch and imagine the spider laying all those baby spiders. You may even believe you hear a couple scurrying around your duct system. Don’t worry. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning will come out and give you a complete duct cleaning and make sure that spider and any of her bug friends are evicted. Eggs, too.
Rodents
When rats, squirrels, and other wildlife make their way into your duct system, normally through holes in the duct work and cracks in the foundation or home exterior, it causes multiple issues. First, wildlife can leave droppings behind and can ruin anything they come across, including Christmas decorations or old toys you’re storing in your attic. Second, rodents tend to chew, which can result in exposed wiring. That combined with the dried leaves and twigs they’re likely taking in to create a nest, and now there’s quite the fire danger in your attic, duct system, and behind your walls. A complete duct cleaning can eliminate rodent droppings or nests, but you could also need to call animal control to remove the rodents and perhaps an electrician if there has been any damage to wiring.
Birds
Birds typically look for safe and dry 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 presumably end up with bugs in your home. But that’s not the worst part. Birds build nests in your vents, and given the great amount of stuff they use to assemble said nest, it can wind up fully clogging a vent, preventing any airflow. As with rodents, a full duct cleaning from Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning can eliminate any droppings, feathers, or other possible illness-carrying leave-behinds. You may also need a professional wildlife removal company to actually remove the birds from the vents or attics.
Mice in Air Ducts
If you’ve got mice in your ductwork, you should take steps quickly to remove them. Mice gnaw wiring and leave feces like all rodents, but they also grow their population quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the road system of your house, they usually die in the ducts. This creates a health hazard, and you may notice unpleasant scents.
You probably think of mice from the noise you hear – lots of scratching and scrabbling in walls. Or you could actually see one making an escape through the vents in your walls. You might even confirm their status by inspecting the ducts for mice feces. If you think there’s mice you have a couple options. You could trap them yourself, by setting traps inside each duct and checking them every morning. Or you might decide to contract a pest control company.
After you’ve determined that the mice are gone, you really should have your ducts thoroughly cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been living in the walls, they will have left mice refuse in your ducts. Mice feces are toxic, and if you ignore them in your ducts they can make you and your family sick. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning offers duct cleaning services that will remove most debris from your home’s ventilation system.
Call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning now or schedule online for a complete duct cleaning to help make sure the air you are breathing is healthy and pest-free.
