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

You don’t want to think about it, but sometimes dust isn’t the only thing that is in your duct system. You may hear animal noises coming from air ducts and realize you have unwelcome 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 for a complete duct cleaning and we will ensure your duct system is free of all these nasty house guests, for instance: 

Insects and Bugs 

Nothing is worse than working to kill a spider and watching it run into the air vent. It’s impossible to get it now and all you can do is sit on the couch and imagine it laying all those spider babies. You may even believe you hear some scampering around your duct system. Never fear. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning will come out and give you a thorough duct cleaning and assure that spider and any of her yucky friends are evicted. Babies, too. 

Rodents 

When rats, squirrels, and other wildlife make a home in your duct system, normally through holes in the duct work and breaks in the foundation or home exterior, it causes many issues. First, squirrels, mice, or raccoons can leave droppings behind and can destroy anything they get into, including seasonal decorations or baby toys you’re saving in your attic. Second, animals tend to chew, which can leave you with exposed wiring. That mixed with the twigs and dried grass they’re likely taking in to create a nest, and now you have quite the fire danger in your duct system, your attic, or behind your walls. A full duct cleaning can eliminate rodent droppings or nests, but you might 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 usually get into safe and dry places to nest, like your air vents. Nests mean baby birds, which means they are bringing food to babies, and that means BUGS. If you have birds in your vents, you’ll probably end up with six-legged and eight-legged critters in your home. But that’s not the end of it. Birds build nests in your vents, and given the large amount of stuff they use to construct said nest, it can result in completely clogging a vent, preventing any airflow. As with rodents, a thorough duct cleaning from Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning can eliminate any droppings, feathers, or other likely 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 have mice in the air ducts, you should take steps quickly to remove them. Mice nibble on electrical wires and leave refuse like most rodents, but they also multiply quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the beltway of your residence, they eventually die in the ducts. This creates an unsanitary situation, and you may notice an unsavory odor. 
 
You may guess mice from the noise you hear – plenty of scratching and scrabbling along metal. Or you might actually spot one making an escape into the heating vents in your house. You may even confirm their passage by inspecting the ducts for mice feces. Either way, if you you’re worried you have mice you have a couple choices. You can trap them yourself, by setting traps on the interior of each vent and checking them each morning. Or you can hire a professional exterminator. 
 
After you’ve determined that the mice are gone, you really should have your air ducts expertly cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been there, they will have left droppings in your ducts. Mice leavings are toxic, and if you don’t remove them from your ducts they can make your household 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 full duct cleaning to help make sure the air your family is breathing is healthy and pest-free.