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

You don’t want to think about it, but often times dust isn’t the only thing that is in your duct system. You might have heard animal noises coming from air ducts and fear you have unwanted guests. You can attempt to lure the critters 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 make sure your duct system is free of all these unwelcome house guests, such as: 

Creepy-Crawlies 

Not much is worse than trying to kill a spider and seeing it escape into the air vent. It’s out of reach now and all you can do is sit in your room and imagine the spider laying all those spider eggs. You may even think you hear a few scampering around your duct system. Fear not. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning will come to your home and give you a full duct cleaning and make sure that spider and any of her bug friends are good and gone. Babies, too. 

Rodents 

When rodents make a home in your duct system, generally through gaps in the duct work and breaks in the foundation or home exterior, it causes many issues. First, wildlife can leave droppings behind and can ruin anything they encounter, including Christmas decorations or old toys you’re saving in your attic. Second, those little guys tend to chew, which can cause exposed wiring. That joined with the dried leaves and twigs they’re likely taking in to create a nest, and now you have quite the fire hazard in your duct system, your attic, or behind your walls. A professional duct cleaning can eliminate rodent droppings or nests, but you could also need to call animal control to remove the furry visitors and maybe an electrician if there was any wire damage. 

Birds 

Birds normally look for safe and sheltered places to nestand your air vents meet that criteria. Nests mean babies, which means they are finding food for babies, and that means BUGS. If you discover birds in your vents, you’ll probably end up with bugs in your home. But that’s not all. Birds assemble nests in your vents, and given the great amount of leaves and grass they use to create said nest, it can wind up totally clogging a vent, obstructing any airflow. As with our furry friends, a completely duct cleaning from Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning can eliminate any droppings, feathers, or other possible illness-carrying leave-behinds. You may also need a professional wildlife removal company to actually remove the birds from your vents or attics. 

Mice in Air Ducts 

If you have mice in your home’s ductwork, you should take steps quickly to remove them. Mice gnaw wiring and leave refuse like most rodents, but they also grow their population quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the highway of your home, they may die in there. This creates unhealthy living conditions, and you may notice it due to the smell. 
 
You probably suspect mice from the sounds you hear – plenty of scratching and scrabbling along walls. Or you could actually spot one making an escape into the vents in your walls. You might even confirm their presence by inspecting the ducts for mice droppings. Either way, if you suspect mice you have some choices. You can trap them yourself, by placing traps just inside each vent and checking them each morning. Or you can pay for a professional exterminator. 
 
Once you’ve verified that the mice are removed, you will need to have your air ducts expertly cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been present, they will have left droppings in your ducts. Mice feces are toxic, and if you ignore them in your ducts they can make you and your family sick. Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning offers duct cleaning services that will eliminate most debris from your home’s air ducts. 

Call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning today 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.