The Truth Behind A/C Duct Cleaning | Tri County Air

Sometimes duct cleaning is recommended by your HVAC professional - but most of the time it is not necessary or helpful. Here are the pros and cons of getting your A/C ducts cleaned brought to you by Billy Swanson, Owner and President of Tri County Air.

[Steve_in_NJ]

Great video!! Just saw this after saving the video for a few months! Our own HVAC technician told us after doing the A/C annual service that duct cleaning is worthless as long as we change our air filters regularly and get our annual A/C and Furnace service done. Mom paid $2, 000 for a company to clean her ducts after 30 years and they did a horrible job. Missed most the vents and when they left, dust blew out these vents all over her house!

We were told, however, dryer vents are a different "animal" and should be cleaned every 2 years!!!

[ocdtechtalk]

100% the first person to speak the truth about flexible ducts cleaning.

Totally different story with metal duct work.

So know what kind of duct work you have before you have someone clean your duct work.

[theDavidChannel]

The most honest duct cleaning video on YouTube

[abidbhatti]

Thank you, thank you, thank you a million times for sharing this info. My wife, after hearing from someone at work that ducts should be cleaned, has been insisting that I hire a duct cleaning service. After having her watch your video, I was able to convince her otherwise. I can’t explain what a relief it’s, not to have to her ask for it every week. Lol

[Jane-West]

Excellent information! Thank you so much!

[KA-wfrg]

Thanks so much for the video. Verify informative. I was looking for DIY ductwork cleaning because the HVAC guy said, "Yeah you should have your ducts cleaned more than once every 5 years or so." Your explanation makes sense.

[TheyCallmeMrPaul]

You are an honest person, thank you. My duct work is fiberglass, 10 yrs old.

[ambergrady]

Well explained and educational and thanks for your honesty and graphic!

[dollarBill]

Not everybody has a house that's 15 years old. Air duct cleaning is a matter of living healthy or not. I just bought a house that's' 65 yrs old and the cold air returns have 2 inches of DIRT in them and I have asthma. They need to be cleaned!

[commonsense]

Ductless Multi split units with heat pumps is not too expensive if the health is the issue. Don’t have to worry about the dirty ducts.

[billmiller]

What about year 70? Or 85? Year 150?

[tailzzzzz]

Is there any way to get rid of that saggy flexible hosing in the basement? I have 5 because the builder messed up - like put a vent in the pantry instead of the kitchen, after which he corrected and then went vent happy, adding so many unneeded vents on the first floor. So now I have a major cat litter dust problem, and I believe dust settles in these. I never would find dust on the filter, but now have cat litter dust spewing from my vents. Help. I really want the air to have a straight shot to the pleated filter without settling in these hoses. Will the beams in the basement prevent this?

[browniegay]

Please help. There is something (particles?) coming fro the AC that is causing my arms to burn. I know it’s inside the house because when I leave home I don’t feel it. Can you tell me what I need to do? Thanks in advance.

[Sunshine-zwic]

Thank you so much for the information!
Now I have a question for you, my ducks are almost 50 years old “they are the good ones” I asked my husband to change them and he said that those kind of AC ducts are really expensive… what is your recommendation?
Thank you

[mikemilam]

Mine must be the exception. House was built in 2002 and I pull the return grills now and then and clean out the stud cavity with a shop vac and brush as best I can. I get hands full of dust and dog hair out every time. I've considered putting low merv filters on the return grills.

[juanmiguelzaragoza]

Hi Sir Bill can use this article for sharing in our facebook?

[kandacepatterson]

Good video! I smell squirrel urine...yuck....old old rental...😠but they would fall apart. I just clean the flex one with my duster( the returns to the living room and bedroom are only 1 foot long) but to the kitchen about 15 feet. Cant do that but I would like to know if its leaking how can I tell?

[CarCulture]

thanks for the tips good sir.. and most of the dislike on this video its all of these company who try to make money out of us for not being honest with there customers. THANK YOU AGIAN GOOD SIR FOR THE TIP.

[NathalyTannerBeauty]

How do you know if you have mold in the air ducts

[dartman]

I've cleaned hundreds of people's air ducts. Many were hideous. Some with inches of dirt! I showed the customers the before and after and they were all happy they had them cleaned. If you're wondering whether or not to have your ducts cleaned, just take a flashlight and look in your returns. If they're crusty, I'd get them cleaned. I'm retired so this isn't an ad for duct cleaning, it's just common sense!