You don't want to think about it, but sometimes dust isn’t exclusively what is in your duct system. You might hear animal noises coming from air ducts and realize you have unwanted visitors. You can try and lure the little guys out but they may not leave their babies if they are nesting. Call Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing for a thorough duct cleaning and we will confirm your duct system is free of all these unwelcome house guests, such as:
Insects and Bugs
Not much is worse than trying to kill a spider and watching it run into an air vent. It's out of reach now and all you can do is sit in your room and imagine it laying all those baby spiders. You may even believe you hear some scuttling around your duct system. No worries. Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing will come to your home and give you a complete duct cleaning and ensure that spider and any of her yucky friends are evicted. Babies, too.
Rodents
When raccoons, mice, and other furry visitors make their way into your duct system, normally through openings in the duct work and cracks in the foundation or home exterior, it causes multiple issues. First, squirrels, mice, or raccoons can leave droppings behind and can tear up anything they encounter, including Christmas decorations or old toys you’re storing in your attic. Second, those little guys tend to chew, which can result in exposed wiring. That combined with the twigs and dried grass they’re likely bringing in to build a nest, and that creates quite the fire danger in your attic, behind your walls, and in your duct system. A thorough duct cleaning can eliminate rodent droppings or nests, but you may also need to call animal control to remove the rodents and maybe an electrician if there was any damage to the wiring.
Birds
Birds typically get into safe and dry places to nestand your air vents meet that criteria. Nests mean eggs, which means they are feeding babies, and that means BUGS. If you have birds in your vents, you’ll probably end up with bugs in your home. But that’s not the end of it. Birds construct nests in your vents, and given the large amount of stuff they use to construct said nest, it can result in fully clogging a vent, obstructing any airflow. As with rodents, a completely duct cleaning from Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing can eliminate any droppings, feathers, or other potential illness-carrying leave-behinds. You might also need a professional wildlife removal company to actually remove the birds from your vents or attics.
Mice in Air Ducts
If you've got mice in your air ducts, you should take steps to quickly remove them. Mice chew through wires and leave refuse like most rodents, but they also multiply quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the road system of your house, they may pass away inside. This creates a health hazard, and you may notice an unsavory odor.
You probably guess mice because of the noises you hear Ð lots of scratching and scrabbling along walls. Or you might actually notice one making an escape into the heating vents in your walls. You might even confirm their presence by inspecting the ducts for mice leavings. Either way, if you suspect mice you have a couple choices. You may trap them yourself, by setting traps just inside each duct and checking them each morning. Or you might decide to hire a specialist.
If you've verified that the mice are gone, you really should have your ducts professionally cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been living in the walls, they will have left droppings in your ducts. Mice leavings are toxic, and if you ignore them in your ducts they can make you sick. Service Experts offers duct cleaning services that will remove most debris from your home’s air ducts.
Call Service Experts today or schedule online for a full duct cleaning to help make sure the air your family is breathing is healthy and pest-free.
