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

It’s not fun to think about, but often times dust isn’t all that is in your duct system. You might have heard animal noises coming from air ducts and fear you have unwelcome guests. You can pull out all the stops to lure the critters out but they may not leave their babies if they are nesting. Call Enercare Winnipeg Supply for a complete duct cleaning and we will ensure your duct system is clear of all these unwanted house guests, such as: 

Insects and Bugs 

There are few things worse than trying to kill a spider and seeing it run into the air vent. You can’t get to it now and all you can do is sit on the couch and imagine it laying all those spider eggs. You may even think you hear some scurrying around your duct system. Never fear. Enercare Winnipeg Supply will come to your home and give you a complete duct cleaning and ensure that spider and any of her bug friends are evicted. The offspring, too. 

Rodents 

When rodents find themselves in your duct system, normally through gaps in the duct work and breaks in the foundation or home exterior, it causes multiple issues. First, wildlife can leave droppings behind and can destroy anything they encounter, including seasonal decorations or old baby clothes you’re storing in your attic. Second, those little guys tend to chew, which can result in exposed wiring. That joined with the dried grass and leaves they’re likely taking in to build a nest, and now you have quite the fire danger in your attic, behind your walls, and in your duct system. A good duct cleaning can remove rodent droppings or nests, but you may also need to call an expert wildlife removal company to remove the rodents and maybe an electrician if there was any damage to the wiring. 

Birds 

Birds usually find safe and warm places to nestand your air vents meet that criteria. Nests mean baby birds, which means they are bringing food to babies, and that means BUGS. If you find birds in your vents, you’ll likely end up with bugs in your home. But that’s not the end of it. Birds construct nests in your vents, and given the vast amount of stuff they use to create said nest, it can end up fully clogging a vent, obstructing any airflow. As with our furry friends, a full duct cleaning from Enercare Winnipeg Supply can eliminate any droppings, feathers, or other possible illness-carrying leave-behinds. You could also need an expert animal removal company to actually remove the birds from air vents or attics. 

Mice in Air Ducts 

If you’ve got mice in your home’s ducts, you should take steps quickly to remove them. Mice gnaw wiring and leave feces like most rodents, but they also grow their population quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the road system of your residence, they may die in the ducts. This creates a health hazard, and you may notice an unsavory odor. 
 
You might guess mice due to the noises you hear – some scratching and scrabbling inside ductwork. Or you may actually notice one making an escape through the air vents in your home. You might even confirm their presence by inspecting the ducts for mice droppings. If you think there’s mice you have some choices. You may trap them yourself, by setting traps on the interior of each duct and checking them every morning. Or you can contract a pest control company. 
 
If you’ve determined that the mice are exterminated, you really should have your air ducts thoroughly cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been there, they will have left droppings in your ducts. Mice feces are toxic, and if you don’t remove them from your ducts they can make you sick. Enercare Winnipeg Supply offers duct cleaning services that will remove most debris from your home’s ventilation system. 

Call Enercare Winnipeg Supply now or schedule online for a full duct cleaning to help make sure the air you and your loved ones are breathing is healthy and pest-free.