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What’s Crawling Around in Your Home’s Air Ducts?

It’s unpleasant to consider, but occasionally dust isn’t exclusively what is in your duct system. You might hear animal noises coming from air ducts and realize you have freeloading tenants. You can pull out all the stops to lure the critters out but they may be nesting and refuse to leave their babies. Call Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing for a comprehensive duct cleaning and we will make sure your duct system is rid of all these unwelcome house guests, such as: 

Bugs and Insects 

Nothing is worse than working to kill a spider and watching it run into the air vent. You can’t get to it now and all you can do is sit on the couch and imagine it laying all those spider eggs. You may even swear you hear a couple scampering around your duct system. Don’t worry. 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 creepy-crawly friends are out of there. Babies, too. 

Rodents 

When rodents make their way into your duct system, commonly through gaps in the duct work and breaks in the foundation or home exterior, it causes several issues. First, rodents can leave droppings behind and can tear up anything they encounter, including seasonal decorations or old toys you’re keeping in your attic. Second, animals tend to chew, which can leave you with exposed wiring. That joined with the dried grass and leaves they’re likely carrying in to create a nest, and now you have quite the fire hazard in your attic, behind your walls, and in your duct system. A full duct cleaning can get rid of rodent droppings or nests, but you may also need to call animal control to remove the furry visitors and perhaps an electrician if there was any damage to the wiring. 

Birds 

Birds typically look for safe and warm places to nest, like your air vents. Nests mean babies, which means they are finding food for babies, and that means BUGS. If you discover birds in your vents, you’ll probably end up with six-legged and eight-legged critters in your home. But that’s not the worst part. Birds construct nests in your vents, and given the great amount of materials they use to build said nest, it can wind up completely clogging a vent, stopping any airflow. As with rodents, a thorough duct cleaning from Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing can eliminate any droppings, feathers, or other likely illness-carrying leave-behinds. You might also need animal control to actually remove the birds from your vents or attics. 

Mice in Air Ducts 

If you’ve got mice in the ductwork, you should take steps to quickly remove them. Mice gnaw wires and leave feces like most rodents, but they also multiply quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the beltway of your home, they usually die in the ducts. This creates a health hazard, and you may notice it due to the smell. 
 
You may suspect mice due to the sounds you hear – some scratching and scrabbling inside metal. Or you could actually notice one making an escape into the vents in your walls. You might even confirm their presence by inspecting the ducts for mice feces. Either way, if you you’re worried you have mice you have a couple choices. You may trap them yourself, by placing traps on the interior of each duct and checking them each morning. Or you could hire a pest control company. 
 
If you have determined that the mice are gone, you really should have your air ducts thoroughly cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been present, they will have left droppings in your ducts. Mice feces are toxic, and if you don’t remove them from your ducts they can make your household sick. Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing offers duct cleaning services that will clean out most debris from your home’s ventilation system. 

Call Service Experts Heating, Air Conditioning & Plumbing soon or schedule online for a complete duct cleaning to help make sure the air you are breathing is healthy and pest-free. 

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