What’s Crawling Around in Your Home’s Air Ducts?
It’s not fun to think about, but sometimes dust isn’t the only thing that is in your duct system. You might hear animal noises coming from air ducts and realize you have unwelcome tenants. You can try and lure the creatures out but if they’re nesting they may not leave their babies. Call Enercare Rob's Albertan for a complete duct cleaning and we will assure your duct system is clear of all these uninvited house guests, including:
Bugs and Insects
Not much is worse than working to kill a spider and watching is escape into the air vent. It’s out of reach now and all you can do is lie in bed and imagine the spider laying all those spider babies. You may even swear you hear a few scampering around your duct system. Never fear. Enercare Rob's Albertan will come out and give you a thorough duct cleaning and ensure that spider and any of her yucky friends are good and gone. The offspring, too.
Rodents
When rats, squirrels, and other wildlife make their way into your duct system, generally through gaps in the duct work and breaks in the foundation or home exterior, it causes multiple issues. First, rodents can leave droppings behind and can ruin anything they come across, including holiday decorations or baby toys you’re saving in your attic. Second, animals tend to chew, which can cause exposed wiring. That combined with the dried grass and leaves they’re likely carrying in to manufacture a nest, and now there’s quite the fire risk in your duct system, your attic, or behind your walls. A thorough duct cleaning can remove rodent droppings or nests, but you might also need to call a professional animal removal company to remove the furry visitors and perhaps an electrician if there has been any damage to wiring.
Birds
Birds normally find safe and warm places to nest, like your air vents. Nests mean babies, which means they are feeding babies, and that means BUGS. If you find birds in your vents, you’ll likely end up with six-legged and eight-legged critters in your home. But that’s not the worst part. Birds assemble nests in your vents, and given the vast amount of leaves and grass they use to construct said nest, it can result in totally clogging a vent, obstructing any airflow. As with our furry friends, a completely duct cleaning from Enercare Rob's Albertan can remove any droppings, feathers, or other likely illness-carrying leave-behinds. You could also need animal control to actually remove the birds from the vents or attics.
Mice in Air Ducts
If you have mice in your home’s ducts, you should take steps quickly to remove them. Mice chew through electrical wires and leave feces like most rodents, but they also add to their population quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the highway of your house, they may die in the ducts. This creates an unsanitary situation, and you may notice unpleasant scents.
You may guess mice from the sounds you hear – some scratching and scrabbling inside metal. Or you could actually spot one making an escape into the heating vents in your house. You may even confirm their presence by inspecting the ducts for mice leavings. Either way, if you you’re worried you have mice you have a couple choices. You could trap them yourself, by setting traps just inside each duct and checking them in the morning. Or you could hire a pest control company.
If you’ve verified that the mice are exterminated, you will need to have your ducts thoroughly cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been living in the walls, they will have left mice refuse in your ducts. Mice feces are toxic, and if you ignore them in your ducts they can make you sick. Enercare Rob's Albertan offers duct cleaning services that will clean out most debris from your home’s ventilation system.
Call Enercare Rob's Albertan soon or schedule online for a complete duct cleaning to help ensure the air you and your loved ones are breathing is healthy and pest-free.
