how to keep your home smelling fresh with pets

The condition of the air inside your home can have a big effect on the cleanliness of your home and also with your family's health. Dust and allergens circulating through your home not only leave a layer of dirt over everything, they also can cause asthma and other serious breathing complications. Here are some tips and insight about cleaning your home's ducts and how doing so can be of benefit to you and your household.

Reasons Why You Should Clean Them

The vents and duct work inside your home can get coated and filled with dust and other particles that get through your home's air and cause allergies and other breathing problems in your family members. Dirty air can cause illness. Also, if you find mold in your vents, they should definitely be cleaned to remove any mold growth. Mold spores are quite dangerous and toxic to your health. 

You can have your home air tested to see if there are mold spores in your home air. If mold spores are circulating through your home, they can spread and cause mold outbreaks in other areas of your indoor living space.

Also, if you have had a pest problem in your home and vents, this is another good opportunity to have them professionally cleaned out. This will remove any bacteria left by the pests, and any droppings or other harmful residues you don't want filtering through your home.

Take Additional Steps

As an extra step to keep the air inside your home clean, you should use an air filter in your HVAC and change it regularly or clean it if it is a reusable filter. Having a filter that will filter out more dust, allergens, and other pollutants is a great way to keep your home's air more clean, but you should consider replacing the filter more often. An air filter that has smaller openings will collect more particles and therefore, require replacing more often. And if you have a pet in your home or you smoke, increase the frequency in which you change out your filter.

You can also keep your home air clean with the use of an air purifier set up within the home. Make sure you check the square footage coverage of an air purifier and have more than one if your home is larger in size. This will filter your home's air to remove dust and other allergens that circulate through your home within your HVAC ventilation.

If your home is in need of a vent cleaning service, contact a professional near you.