When it comes to improving indoor air quality, many homeowners turn to whole-house air filters in Fresno, CA. But selecting the right air filter strength is more complex than you might think. It’s not just about picking the filter with the highest rating—choosing the wrong one can negatively affect your HVAC system’s performance and efficiency.
Let’s take a closer look at how filter strength is measured, why it matters. We can help you select the right solution for your home.
If you’ve heard anything about duct cleaning, you might wonder if it’s really an important service. The simple answer is: if your home has ductwork, it will need regular duct cleaning. Not necessarily every year, but you will have to get into a regular schedule to have a professional HVAC service come to your home for duct cleaning in Fresno, CA.
We have to emphasize professional. People may think they can do duct cleaning on their own with a long-hose vacuum. Or they may turn to a salesman who offers a suspiciously low quote for duct cleaning but doesn’t have any real credentials. Say “no” to both the salesman and to yourself! This job absolutely needs professionals for it to provide any benefits.
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the air quality inside homes and other buildings is often three to five times worse than the air outdoors. This goes against what most people think of pollution, but it’s true. And low indoor air quality is a serious problem. The EPA lists various short-term and long-term negative effects of indoor air quality, including:
We offer indoor air quality services, such as air filters, for our customers to help them enjoy better health and greater comfort in their homes. In this post, we’ll explain exactly why people need this help: the causes and the sources of low indoor air quality (IAQ).
At Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning, we understand the importance of maintaining all aspects of a home’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. However, one critical component that homeowners often overlook is the dryer vent. Regular dryer vent cleaning is essential for the safety, efficiency, and longevity of your home appliances.
We’ll explain what the dryer vent is and why it can become a major hazard without regular professional cleaning. We’ll also help with the signs that it’s time to schedule dryer vent cleaning in Fresno.
We’re glad you’re asking this question, because far too many homeowners forget that duct cleaning is an important routine service. Air ducts are hidden from sight in a house, making it easy for people to forget them or realize that they may need occasional service like duct testing and duct cleaning.
We offer duct cleaning in Fresno, CA and have many years of experience handling this service. We can help you determine when it’s best to call us to schedule this job, whether as a routine maintenance service or because you’ve got extremely dirty ductwork.
An important service our team offers customers is dryer vent cleaning in Fresno, CA. This is a job we recommend homeowners have done at least once year. Unfortunately, people often forget to schedule this vital cleaning service—and that’s why we’re glad you stopped by this blog for a reminder. Dryer vent cleaning may not sound like it’s as important as other maintenance jobs like heating system maintenance, but as we’ll explain below, the safety benefits alone make it essential!
Like most parts of your home, the ductwork requires regular attention. It doesn’t need annual maintenance the way the heater and air conditioner do, but it’s important to have the ducts cleaned every three to five years. Over time, ducts naturally accrue dust and other particles that move through the ventilation system. It only takes about a year for the first thin layer of dust to form along the interior of the ductwork, and after three to five years the build-up will start to have negative effects—that’s when it’s time to schedule duct cleaning.
When you have our professionals handle your duct cleaning in Fresno, CA, it can make a major difference in the performance of the HVAC system and the quality of your indoor air. Since homeowners often forget about duct cleaning entirely, we’ve put together a list of the major benefits of making this a regular service:
Think of the ducts like nasal passages. When someone has a cold, these passages become congested, making it more difficult to breathe. This applies to the ductwork: the dust and debris that build up inside the interior of the ducts causes restrictions against airflow through the ventilation system. The blower fan that pushes air through the ductwork to the rooms must labor harder to do its job, and this causes the HVAC system to lose efficiency. This applies to both the air conditioner and the furnace! You’ll pay more for the standard performance of your heating and cooling until duct cleaning restores the ducts to their original condition.
The strain placed on the HVAC system due to a build-up in the ducts can contribute to parts wearing down rapidly, more repairs, and even an early system replacement. All that dust and debris can also end up infiltrating the HVAC cabinet, which can inflict even worse damage on parts like motors, burners, and refrigerant coils.
On average, a six-room house circulates 40 lbs. of dust through its ventilation system per year. That’s an enormous amount of dust that keeps running through a house without any easy escape. Each time you turn on your HVAC system when it has dirty ductwork, the blower fan will blast out the dust inside it into the living spaces. Not only is this unhealthy to breathe, it contributes to making the house much dustier. (If you’re struggling to keep your house dust-free, it’s often a warning that it’s time for duct cleaning.)
Duct cleaning isn’t a job you can do on your own with a hose vacuum pushed into the vents. You also shouldn’t trust to amateurs who quote suspiciously low prices for it—they also won’t do much more than push a vacuum into the vents! Let our HVAC experts see the job is done thoroughly so you won’t need the service again for several years.
Call Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning for duct cleaning and other HVAC services in the Central Valley. “Quality Is the Cornerstone of Our Success” since 1952.
An important service Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning offers is dryer vent cleaning in Fresno, CA and the rest of the Central Valley. It isn’t the first HVAC service that pops into people’s minds, and they’re sometimes confused about what it is and why it needs to be done.
We want to clear up what dryer vent cleaning is and why it’s important—not just for your convenience and energy savings, but for the safety of your home.
We offer many different options for improving indoor air quality in the homes of our customers. It starts right with repairing the ventilation itself, which can harm indoor air quality if it is leaky or poorly designed. Our technicians also install many of the best IAQ devices that remove unwanted particles from the air, such as dust, lint, pollen, dander, chemicals, smoke, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), dust mites, and more.
Right now, many of our customers are inquiring about installing UV lights and air purifiers in Fresno, CA and elsewhere in the Central Valley. Ultraviolet air purifiers are an effective device against organic pollutants that may circulate through the air of a house. The UV rays from the lights in these purifiers disrupt the cellular structure of such harmful contaminants as bacteria, mold spores, viruses, and allergens; and neutralizes odors and harmful VOCs. UV air purifiers also stop mold growth inside HVAC systems, improving their energy efficiency and preventing the terrible odors from “dirty sock syndrome.” Unlike room air purifiers, the UV systems are central and clean the air throughout the house.
Air Purification systems such as the Carrier Infinity Air Purifier System treat 100% of the air flowing through the home comfort system. These systems use precision point ionization to charge particles as they enter the purifier. The particles are attracted to the air cartridge and then captured and killed.
You often don’t read about HVAC companies that offer dryer vent cleaning. But this is a service we believe in strongly—because cleaning the dryer vent helps to prevent the majority of house fires. We recommend you arrange for dryer vent cleaning in Fresno, CA with us if you haven’t done it before. You can choose to have it done in connection with the other ductwork and indoor air quality services we provide.
If you’re still uncertain if you need this job done or not, below we’ve listed the signs to watch for that will warn you that you’re overdue for dryer vent cleaning.
