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

You don’t want to think about it, but sometimes dust isn’t all that is in your duct system. You might hear animal noises coming from air ducts and notice you have unwanted visitors. You can try and lure the creatures out but if they’re nesting they may not leave their babies. Call Peitz Service Experts for a comprehensive duct cleaning and we will confirm your duct system is free of all these uninvited house guests, such as: 

Bugs and Insects 

Not much is worse than trying to kill a spider and watching it run into an air vent. You can’t get to it now and all you can do is lay in bed and imagine it laying all those spider babies. You may even think you hear a couple scrambling around your duct system. Don’t worry. Peitz Service Experts will come out and give you a complete duct cleaning and make sure that spider and any of her bug friends are good and gone. Babies, too. 

Rodents 

When raccoons, mice, and other furry visitors make their way into your duct system, usually through holes in the duct work and fractures in the foundation or home exterior, it causes several issues. First, squirrels, mice, or raccoons can leave droppings behind and can destroy anything they come across, including Christmas decorations or baby toys you’re keeping in your attic. Second, those little guys tend to chew, which can cause exposed wiring. That combined with the dried grass and leaves they’re likely bringing in to create a nest, and now you have quite the fire hazard 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 animal control to remove the rodents and possibly an electrician if there has been any damage to wiring. 

Birds 

Birds usually get into safe and sheltered places to nest, like your air vents. Nests mean babies, which means they are feeding babies, and that means BUGS. If you find birds in your vents, you’ll presumably end up with bugs in your home. But that’s not the worst part. Birds construct nests in your vents, and given the vast amount of materials they use to construct said nest, it can end up fully clogging a vent, preventing any airflow. As with rodents, a full duct cleaning from Peitz Service Experts can remove any droppings, feathers, or other potential illness-carrying leave-behinds. You may also need animal control to actually remove the birds from your vents or attics. 

Mice in Air Ducts 

If you’ve got mice in the ductwork, you should take steps quickly to remove them. Mice chew through wires and leave droppings like most rodents, but they also multiply quickly. And when they run around in the ducts, treating it like the road system of your home, they eventually die in the ducts. This creates an unsanitary situation, and you may notice it due to the smell. 
 
You probably think of mice from the noises you hear – lots of scratching and scrabbling in metal. Or you may actually notice one making an escape through the vents in your home. You may even confirm their presence by inspecting the ducts for mice droppings. Either way, if you you’re worried you have mice you have a couple options. You could trap them yourself, by placing traps on the interior of each duct and checking them each morning. Or you could hire a specialist. 
 
Once you’ve determined that the mice are gone, you really should have your ducts professionally cleaned by an HVAC company. If mice have been there, they will have left droppings in your ducts. Mice droppings are toxic, and if you ignore them in your ducts they can make you sick. Peitz Service Experts offers duct cleaning services that will remove most debris from your home’s airways. 

Call Peitz Service Experts today or schedule online for a thorough duct cleaning to help make sure the air you and your loved ones are breathing is healthy and pest-free.