Your ductwork plays a vital role in keeping your home warm in the winter and cool in the summer. If your ductwork is not properly sealed, it can negatively impact your home comfort and also increase your monthly energy costs. You can keep reading to learn about how often you need to schedule an appointment to have your ducts checked and resealed for the best results.
Give our team a call when you’re ready to schedule an appointment for duct cleaning and duct sealing in Lake City, FL. The services go hand-in-hand to help you improve indoor air quality while also saving money on monthly energy costs for operating your heater or air conditioner.
Indoor air quality (IAQ) has never been more on the forefront of people’s minds than now. But poor IAQ has troubled homes for the last few decades: as construction creates more airtight houses to boost energy efficiency, indoor contaminants have fewer ways to escape, and less fresh air sweeps through to help keep the air clean. Chances are high that if you’re concerned about the IAQ of your house, you have good reason.
The later summer can be the worst when it comes to heat and humidity, especially in Florida. It can also be the worst when it comes to air conditioning system performance—a lot of pressure and stress have built up on the AC components in the last few months, and when it gets even hotter, the system may start to lose capacity or even break down.
The ductwork in the modern home is often substandard, as if the original builders of the house didn’t put much thought into the placement or materials of these important air channels. We’ve seen plenty of poor ductwork in the more than two decades we’ve worked on HVAC systems. This is why 
Winters here in North Central Florida are mostly pleasant, but we do have stretches of days when the temperature drops to the point where heating systems have to come on. Most people have heaters that use ductwork to move heat to the various rooms, such as furnaces (electric or gas) and heat pumps. Unfortunately, no matter how well your home’s heater works, you’ll run into trouble if the ductwork is leaky.