Duct Cleaning in Plano, TX
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What sits in your ducts before winter starts
Plano gets 22 winter storms and 86 damaging wind events over ten years, and a third of Texas households lost power for at least a day in 2024. Every outage stops your furnace mid-cycle, and the dust already loose in the ducts just settles where it is until the system runs again.
Most homes in Collin County are owned, not rented, so the same ducts serve the same house winter after winter. Your furnace only runs November through March here. The rest of the year, that dust sits undisturbed, and when the system finally kicks on for the season, the first thing it does is push all of it through the vents.
- 5 months
- November through March, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 6 months
- May through October, your air conditioner does the same
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- Most homes do fine having their ducts cleaned every few years, not every year. If anyone in the house has allergies, or you have had a rodent problem or a renovation that kicked up dust and debris, it makes sense to do it sooner. A contractor can look inside the ducts and tell you whether yours need it now or can wait.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on what is going on in your ducts right now. If you can see dust building up around your vents, if a musty smell shows up when the air runs, or if someone in the house has unexplained allergy symptoms, cleaning is worth doing. If none of that applies, it is a lower priority. It will not fix a duct that is leaking air or poorly sealed. That is a separate repair a contractor would need to look at.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum system to your ductwork and uses brushes or air tools to knock loose dust and debris from the inside of the duct walls, then pulls it out through the vacuum. Every supply and return vent in the house gets cleaned this way. The vent covers themselves usually get pulled off and washed separately. The coil and blower on the furnace or air handler are often checked too, since dust builds up there the same way it does in the ducts.