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How to Find a Good Company

Roller19 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:05:51 +0000

How can you find a good Duct cleaning company? Where I live there are some companies that will clean your Ducts just so they can make extra money!

Duct cleaning is still on the rise and their is still not very many people that know anything about it. Usually their are only a few companies that actually specialize in cleaning out Ducts. To find the best company it would probably be a smart idea for you to maybe look on the internet and type in your state and the city that you live in.

Once you have found a company that sounds decent you could get the phone number to the company and see whether you can trust them to come into your house or not. An important thing to look for when you are searching for a Duct cleaning company is the tools they may use, if it seems as if they don’t have the right equipment then they might not be a good company.

In a recent conversation wtih Jay Thompson of Atlanta HVAC, a heating and air company in Atlanta, GA, I learned that a company that uses poor equipment can cause expensive damage to a home’s duct work.

The main tools a company should have is: a box van, an Air compressor,a big vacuum, a ten inch vacuum hose, Air Whips , Air Hose, a power drill , tin snips and so forth, The tools that they have on hand is very important because that determine whether they will do a good Duct cleaning or not.

To find a reliable Duct cleaning company you can also look in the phone book and find a good one, if you call the company and they do not sound very professional then they may not do a very good job. It is very important to look for people that are honest and trust worthy, otherwise you can have total strangers in your home that could possibly be stilling stuff without you even knowing it.

Also another thing to look for is the reputation of the company, if they have been around for a while then that means that they probably know what they are doing and they are not gonna catch your house on fire or hopefully not cause any trouble. To find a good Duct cleaning company it would also be good to look for people that are serious as you would look for in any company, but if they are not serious about it then the job may take them a very long time and they will probably be there when you are about to eat dinner!

So the best things that you would want to look for in a good Duct cleaning company is: the reputation in the company, they must have they right equipment to get the job done, they must also be professional.

It is very important to find a good Duct cleaning company if you need to get them cleaned because if not like I have mentioned before you could be wasting your money and also your time. So maybe talk to your friends or your relatives also and they may know of a good company to clean your Ducts, but just make sure you find a good company for your own good.

Why is the Motobrush Not As Useful?

Roller19 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:22:27 +0000

First of all, what is a MotoBrush ? A MotoBrush is pretty much a portable vaccum device that contains a hose and a brush on the end of it.

Their are many reasons why the MotoBrush is not as useful as using an Air Compresser attached to an airwhip or Airhose ect.. One reason why is that it will not extend as far as a three hundred foot hose will.One of the reasons it is so nice to have a very long Air Hose is so that you can reach the furthest areas in the Air Ducts and you won’t need to worry about not reaching the Trunk Line down below.

Another reason it is nice to have an Air Compresser hose with an Airwhip on the end of it is because you have a Whip on the end of the Air Hose that will slap around and then it will loosen up every peace of gunk therfore you do not need to suck it all out of the vents upstairs with a vaccuum because you already have a vaccuum hooked up to the furnace so all of the garbage gets put into the Trunk Line and then you go into the crawlspace with the Airwhip and blow it all into the furnace and then it gets sucked into the vaccum into the truck, on the other hand with a MotoBrush you need to carefully carry the machine around the house with you, therfore the prosses is a lot slower.

Sometimes in an Airduct System there will be gunk that is caked onto the Duct work and may be very hard to get off, in that case the Motobrush may clean all around the gunk but it will skip over whatever may be stuck inside of the Duct, that is why the Airwhip comes in handy because it whips evrything instead of just brushing it.

Using the Motobrush is useful therefore it will make the process of cleaning your Ducts a lot longer because you may need to spend a lot longer of a time trying to get all of the stuff loose. Another advantage of using the Air Hoses is they have a smooth surface and they are very skinny in width, that will make it a lot easier for the person cleaning to slide the hoses down into the vents perhaps if the ducts have curves in them you won’t need to use all your might to push the hose down the ducts.

In my personal oppinion I will never switch from using the Air Compresser hoses, Air Whips , and the Airhoses to using the Motobrush because I know that if I did that I would be going a lot slower and probrobly not doing as thorough of a job as I was doing before, that is probrobly not a good thing when it already takes you about three or three and a half hours or mabe even longer if it is a two or three story house otherwise, especialy if you have a couple more Duct jobs afterwords.

So What I am trying to say is that I would personaly recomend using an Aircompresser Hose and a ten inch wide vaccuum hose than using a very small Motobrush, only because it will leave you with cleaner Ducts.

Typical Air Duct Cleaning

Roller19 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:50:22 +0000

The very first thing that happens after pulling up into your driveway in the box van is one person hops out and goes inside the house to locate where all of the vents are throughout the house, while he does that the other person works his way into the garage or wherever the furnace is located.

After the person has looked around the house and has found every vent, he will then take plastic mats and he will put them on top of every vent (he will do this to get good suction) the better the suction is, the more junk you will get out of your vents. Now the guy working on the furnace will need to cut a ten inch hole into the furnace, then he will turn off the pilot light and he will find the breaker and shut off the power going to the furnace so the house doesn’t burn down.

Depending on the layout of the house, he will take sponges and block off the holes in the furnace that lead to different areas of the house (this way you can get excellent suction in the part of the house you are working in).

At this point it is time to turn on the big vacuum and air compressor that are located in the truck. Now he will put the big vacuum hose into the ten inch hole in the furnace. Finally it is time to go back into the truck and get the Air Hose along with all of the Air Whips. Now both of the workers need to stretch the Air Hose all the way to the vent that is furthest away from the furnace (they do it this way so they don’t need to back track all of the dirt or whatever is in the ducts!) .

Now they will take the Air Whip and start leading it all the way down into the vent, they will stop the whip once they hear it hit the trunk line (If you don’t hear it hit the trunk line, then that means it didnt go all the way down!).

Once they have made sure they have done a thorough cleaning with the vents, they now move their equipment down to the crawl space or wherever the Trunk Line is located. They now take a drill and drill a hole in each section of the Trunk Line, and now they take the Air Hose and the Whip and feed it down the Trunk line going into the furnace, they go up and down the line several times to make sure they have gotten everything loose.

After they have patched up all of the holes they have made in the Trunk Line ,they now move onto the Intake section of the furnace. To clean the Intake they will need to spot out where all the vents are through the house! (Some of the vents may be on the ceiling, so be sure to check everywhere!). Once they have found the vents to the Intake, they need to take a drill and take the screws out (It is also nice to have some carpet cutters just in case the paint is stuck the the vent cover!).

So after that it’s time to take the Whip and the Air Hose and feed it all the way down the vent several times so you don’t miss anything!. Once all of the Intakes have been thoroughly cleaned out, now they will put the covers back on all of the vents. By this time all of the ducts should all be clean! Now it is time to go back to the furnace to clean all of the junk out.

A common way to clean out the furnace is to have one person down underneath in the crawl space and the other person up in the garage with a Shop Vac handing down the hose to the person underneath, now he can easily vacuum up all of the garbage that was in your ducts. After the main furnace part is cleaned out it is time to clean out the Intake section. To Do that the person doing the furnace work will drill another hole in the furnace(this area is called the plenum).

After the hole is drilled then the he will insert the big vacuum hose into the hole with the Whips along with some sponges to hold all of it into place. Finally everything should be very clean at this time. Now it is time to take a twelve by twelve sheet of metal to patch up the big holes. After the holes are all patched up, they now detach the vacuum hose and take all of the Whips and put them back into the box van, they then scan the house to make sure they didn’t miss anything.

Now everything is done and you have very clean ducts. Now you don’t need to worry about wondering what is in your ducts or what you are breathing in because now all of that trash is safe in the back of the truck. It is a long process but it is well worth the money and time!

Now if only you can save up enough money to replace all your carpets and invest in laminate floors for your home. Its so much cleaner and healthier and really helps to keep your house mite free.