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

It’s unpleasant to consider, but often times dust isn’t the only thing that is in your duct system. You might hear animal noises coming from air ducts and notice you have unwanted guests. You can attempt to lure the creatures out but they may not leave their babies if they are nesting. Call Bryant Heating & Cooling Service Experts for a complete duct cleaning and we will confirm your duct system is rid of all these uninvited house guests, such as: 

Insects and Bugs 

There are few things worse than trying to kill a spider and watching it run into your air vent. You can’t get to it now and all you can do is sit in your room and imagine the spider laying all those spider babies. You may even swear you hear some scurrying around your duct system. Fear not. Bryant Heating & Cooling Service Experts will come see you and give you a full duct cleaning and ensure that spider and any of her yucky friends are good and gone. Eggs, too. 

Rodents 

When rodents make a home in your duct system, generally through openings in the duct work and fractures in the foundation or home exterior, it causes multiple issues. First, wildlife can leave droppings behind and can ruin anything they come across, including seasonal decorations or baby toys you’re storing in your attic. Second, those little guys tend to chew, which can result in exposed wiring. That joined with the dried leaves and twigs they’re likely bringing in to create a nest, and that creates quite the fire danger in your attic, behind your walls, and in your duct system. A full duct cleaning can remove rodent droppings or nests, but you may also need to call a professional animal removal company to remove the furry visitors and maybe an electrician if there was any wire damage. 

Birds 

Birds typically get into safe and sheltered places to nestand your air vents meet that criteria. Nests mean baby birds, which means they are feeding babies, and that means BUGS. If you have birds in your vents, you’ll likely end up with bugs in your home. But that’s not the worst part. Birds construct nests in your vents, and given the vast amount of materials they use to create said nest, it can result in fully clogging a vent, preventing any airflow. As with our furry friends, a professional duct cleaning from Bryant Heating & Cooling Service Experts can remove any droppings, feathers, or other potential illness-carrying leave-behinds. You could also need animal control to actually remove the birds from your vents or attics. 

Mice in Air Ducts 

If you’ve got mice in your ductwork, you should take steps quickly to remove them. Mice gnaw electrical wires and leave feces like all rodents, but they also multiply quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the beltway of your residence, they may pass away inside. This creates unhealthy living conditions, and you may notice an unsavory odor. 
 
You probably think of mice because of the noises you hear – some scratching and scrabbling along air ducts. Or you might actually see one making an escape into the air vents in your home. You may even confirm their passage by inspecting the ducts for mice leavings. If you you’re worried you have mice you have some options. You could trap them yourself, by placing traps inside each vent and checking them each morning. Or you might decide to hire a specialist. 
 
Once you have verified that the mice are gone, you should have your ductwork 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 leave them in your ducts they can make you and your family sick. Bryant Heating & Cooling Service Experts offers duct cleaning services that will remove most debris from your home’s ventilation system. 

Call Bryant Heating & Cooling Service Experts now or schedule online for a full duct cleaning to help assure the air you and your loved ones are breathing is healthy and pest-free.