How might you, as a customer, be sure you have contracted the most reputable duct cleaning tech?

With primarily three different techniques used to clean the heating and cooling ducts in your house and prices varying from $59 to $800, you the customer should be well informed prior to contacting duct cleaning techs.

So what justifies the huge difference in prices? The answer lies somewhere between homeowner preferences and business marketing practices. For example, someone who is a very clean person that has just bought an old home from a family that had several pets, may not care about the price. However, a person that just wants to get his or her ductwork cleaned because his or her neighbor just had it done, might only wish to pay a minimal amount. duct cleaning techs know this and will base their marketing around it.

So what are the different methods which duct cleaning techs use? The most familiar techniques include:

- Rotary vacuum/cleaning, with camera
- Rotary vacuum/cleaning
- High-pressure air sweeping

Rotary vacuum cleaning
If you or a person in your home suffers from severe allergies, you might want the assurance which using the camera can give the homeowner. You the customer will see first-hand that all dust, debris and grime has been removed. But be prepared to pay a price! This system is very time consuming so the duct cleaning tech will not be able to visit as many customers per day. Typically, the duct cleaning tech will come out and give you a bid. You might should talk over at what point it is better to just replace the old heating and cooling ducts with new!

High-Pressure Air -sweep
The air-wash method is quick and affordable. But will it be vigorous enough in removing indoor air pollution? Most likely not. What if a person has a newer home with new duct work which still has factory-processing oils inside it? On the other hand, if the homeowner just had your air ducts cleaned last year, it might not be necessary to have such a elaborate job done this time. These are questions only you the customer might answer. If you the customer are an extremely tidy person (have you been called a clean freak before?) the homeowner might be most satisfied with the camera method. Or, if the heating and cooling ducts was recently cleaned, the homeowner might want to choose the high-pressure air-wash method. Most people in general are somewhere in the middle. If the company you the customer hire is ethical and you might trust the duct cleaning tech to do a good job, you the customer might should mull over using the brush cleaning system (minus the camera) first. Later, once all the heating and cooling ducts have been cleared out, you the customer might revert to the more economical air-wash method.

Assuredly, brushing your heating and cooling ducts out, with or without a camera, or merely using the high-pressure air-wash method is better and healthier for you and your family than doing nothing at all. Either way, you will sleep better, knowing that decaying pet and rodent hair and discharge will not be floating around your residence. Like people often say; 'If it's in the air, it will soon be in your lungs'.