I am quite conscientious about official home service.
Every year, I drain the water heater, repair the refrigerator plus hire vent cleaning for the clothes dryer.
I officially remove debris from the gutters plus change air filters in the vacuum cleaner, boiler plus cooling system. In the fall, I inspect the interior plus exterior of the property for any areas that require caulk, weatherstripping or insulation. I have the lawn mower, heating system plus cooling system professionally took care of every year. It never occurred to me to include the HVAC duct in my task list. Because the network of pipes is largely concealed behind walls plus ceilings, I forgot all about it. However, the conditioned air that my family breathes plus I pay for passes through the system numerous times per afternoon. It’s responsible for delivering heated plus cooled air to the more than 2 rooms of the house. Any holes or gaps at the seams allows that air to escape. Those imperfections can also draw in unconditioned air plus introduce VOCs, smells, dust plus other pollutants into the living space. When the maximum amount of air fails to reach the intended destination, the boiler plus cooling system are required to run longer plus use more energy. Energy bills go up plus there’s an increased opportunity of malfunction. When I hired a licensed Heating plus Air Conditioning supplier to test the operation of our home’s HVAC duct, he found that approximately 20% of air was leaking out. He recommended duct sealing. The process was not invasive, damaging or messy. It was completed in a few hours. The supplier pumped pressurized air laced with polymer particles into the ducts that sealed up the holes as the air leaked out.
