Air Duct Sealing
Benefits of Properly Sealing Your Air Duct System
Dealing with a dusty house, high utility bills, stuffy rooms, comfort issues, or allergies? The culprit might be your duct system. Properly sealed ducts can significantly improve your home's comfort, energy efficiency, and safety while also lowering your energy bills. In a typical home, 20 to 30 percent of the air moving through an older duct system is lost due to leaks, holes, and poor installation. This leads to poor indoor air quality, higher utility costs, and difficulty maintaining a comfortable temperature, no matter how you set the thermostat.
Improve Comfort:
Sealing ducts can help with common comfort problems such as rooms that are too hot or too cold.
Energy Savings:
Leaky ducts can reduce heating and cooling efficiency by as much as 20%. Sealing and insulating ducts will increase efficiency, lower energy bills, and can often pay for itself in energy savings.
Air Quality:
Sealing your air ducts can improve the indoor air quality by reducing the risk of pollutants entering ducts from a dusty attic and circulating through your home. Dust from insulation could aggravate asthma and allergy problems.
Improved Safety:
Leaky ducts allow air to escape causing your HVAC system to work harder to heat and cool your home resulting in higher energy bills. A new air duct system can lead to a more comfortable home and big energy savings.
Duct Sealing for Safer-Cleaner Indoor Air
Less Dust, More Comfort, Save on Energy Costs
Why Test And Seal Your Air Ducts?
When you install a new air conditioning system, it is necessary to test and seal leaky air ducts. Air ducts that leak 10 percent or more must be repaired to increase system efficiency.
Save Up To 20% On Energy - Improve Your Comfort
Studies show up to 20% of the conditioned air is lost - along with the money you spent to heat/cool through leaky ducts. Properly sized, installed, and sealed ducts will make your air conditioner significantly more efficient.
Don’t let your air conditioner cool and heat your attic!
Air Duct Problems
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-Air Duct Replacement-
When is it time to replace your air ducts? They don’t last forever!
Air ducts are typically the last thing a homeowner thinks about replacing or repairing in their home, but the fact is ductwork doesn’t last forever. Air ducts and your air conditioner team-up to deliver comfortable, clean air to reach every room of your home 365 days a year. An alarming fact is that nearly 30% of temperature treated air can be lost through leaks in your air ducts. Duct work has a life span of about 15 to 25 years. In fact, most duct work is only warrantied by the manufacturer for about 10 years. Over time an air duct system can develop leaks, cracks, damage, along with normal wear and tear that compromise the efficiency and performance of even the most efficient new HVAC system. Many new air conditioners will underperform and chances are the homeowner will suffer from substandard comfort and efficiency with a duct system that is not properly sized, is old, or in poor condition. All Climate Air Inc. understands the crucial role that a properly functioning air duct system plays in providing customers with even temperatures and air circulation in the home, energy savings, and a healthier indoor living environment.
Here are a few signs why your old air ducts may need to be replaced:
AGE:
Having old duct work can often be a source of problems. Air ducts usually last 15 to 25 years; however, seals, joints, and seams also deteriorate over time leading to air leaks and dust. Poorly insulated ducts will also be a contributing factor to higher utility bills.
POOR INDOOR AIR QUALITY:
An old duct system can increase dust, mold, and allergens which can have a
direct impact on your health.
UNEVEN HEATING AND COOLING:
This can be used by faulty duct work which doesn’t send enough air to certain rooms making it uncomfortable compared to other areas in the home.
HIGH ENERGY BILLS:
Leaky ducts allow air to escape causing your HVAC system to work harder to heat and cool your home. When air escapes, you eventually see it reflected on your energy bills. A new air duct system can lead to a more comfortable home and big energy savings.
SIGNS YOUR AIR DUCTS NEED REPLACING:
- Poor to little airflow
- Inconsistent temperatures
- Noisy air ducts with rattling, vibration, or whistling sounds
- Pest infestation with unpleasant smells and strange noises
- High energy bills
- Debris around the vents