Many people might know about their HVAC systems, air conditioning systems, and even the basics of how temperature, heating, and cooling work. However, many people don’t think about air ducts, and even fewer know why air ducts are so important for their systems.

The air ducts in your home are designed to move the air around in your heating and cooling systems, taking the air into and out of each room, and they are used multiple times a day every single day to keep your entire home comfortable. Air ducts are extremely important and it is very important both for you to know why they are so important, as well as how to make sure they are cleaned and able to work effectively.

Here’s all you need to know about air ducts, and it is probably more than you wanted to know!

Clean Air Ducts Improve Indoor Air Quality

Since the air is moving around your air ducts and being cycled in and out constantly throughout the day, you need to make sure that you are keeping your air duct cleaning up. Your indoor air quality is marred by all of the dust, pet dander, allergens, carbon monoxide, and other particles that are just naturally getting into the air. While your air filters and other practices can clean the air as it goes through the ducts, most of the time those particles find themselves inside the ductwork.

Over time, some of the pollutants stop sticking to the walls of your air ducts and instead go back into the cycle, getting into your air ducts, your interior air, and then into your lungs which can infect your health. Each of the contaminants can cause reactions such as sneezing, congestion, and other respiratory illnesses, especially if you have something like asthma or other disease of the lungs.

If you can take the time to clean your air ducts effectively, then you are reducing the risk of those particles getting into your home. Especially if you are pairing the activity with changing your filters and dusting around your home.

Cleaning Air Ducts Can Remove Water and Odors

Not only can your air ducts become extremely vulnerable to mold and water damage that can and will cause some serious health issues for your home and the people in it, but odors such as mildew, paint fumes, tobacco smoke, and food can get trapped inside the ductwork, leaving behind a lingering smell that nothing can really get out.

Plus, it can lead to infestations where bugs, rodents, and critters get caught in the ductwork because they are attracted to the smells and they make a home there. So make sure to clean your air ducts as often as possible in order to make sure that only clean air is moving through them!