From one single dryer in a customer’s home to dozens of commercial machines in a coin laundry, City Duct Cleaning cleans all dryer exhaust ductwork big and small.

And whether the dryers are gas-fired or electric, that doesn’t matter either. They all produce the same amount of lint, and you’d be very surprised to see how quickly the lint builds up in your ductwork.

City Duct Cleaning does dryer duct cleaning in homes, condominiums and in places of business such as laundromats, hotels, retirement homes and more!

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Once an air system is thoroughly cleaned, it should remain clean for 3 to 4 years if properly maintained and a high-arrestance filter is installed.

A standard disposable filter only stops about 10 percent of the airborne contaminates, allowing 90 percent of the dust in the room to flow back into the air system.

To maintain protection against biological growth, an EPA-registered biocide should be applied every six to 12 months by a qualified duct-cleaning professional.

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Most people do not think about their air ducts much, despite their importance to every household. It is fair to say, then, that duct cleaning is often overlooked, but it is quite important. It will help improve your home’s air quality, helping you and your family breathes a little easier. Find out why you should get this task done by a professional.

Having clean ducts seems like a no-brainer since “dirty” is a word most people do not like when it comes to their home. Therefore, duct cleaning might not cross most people’s minds, but most are also not opposed to it when it is mentioned. This job can get rid of excess dust in the ducts, which can lead to cleaner air. Additionally, it can help your heating and cooling systems run at their best, which is particularly important in hot or cold regions in which the systems are used regularly.

Unfortunately, some people do not realize why only a professional should perform the duct cleaning. While many might assume that some type of service to the ducts is better than nothing, this is not always true, as improper treatment can actually cause problems.

For example, using an ineffective or cheap vacuum system to clean can spread dust and dirt everywhere, make your air quality worse than ever. This can cause illness in your family quite easily. Also, an untrained cleaner might actually ruin the system, which can make your heating and cooling bills much higher than they should be while rendering the system useless.

Clearly, attempting to save money by ignoring the issue is not good since your air quality will suffer. However, trying to save money by doing the task on your own or hiring someone who does not know what they are doing can also be harmful. In the end, skimping on duct cleaning costs could actually cost you more money and issues down the road, so do it right the first time.

To avoid such problems, you should research as much as you can before you settle on someone to do duct cleaning for your home. Getting the right company is important in order to get the job done correctly the first time. Otherwise, you could just be wasting your time and money, and possibly putting your system at risk in the long run. Help yourself and your home by taking this task as seriously as you would any other household job.

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There are plenty of do it yourself articles available on the internet about how to clean your own gas furnace but I do not believe that any of these articles are really providing anyone with very useful or prudent information. Anyone who cleans or inspects a gas furnace in Ontario has to be a licensed gas technician, and for good reason. Most duct cleaners are not licensed gas technicians, nor are most homeowners. If you’ve gotten some half-information about how to clean your own gas furnace, then how do you know if you didn’t miss something unsafe about your furnace that a licensed technician would have noticed straight away?

Some people could be lulled into a false sense of security thinking that they have cleaned their furnace and now they’re good for another year. But this is really not the case, especially when you don’t really know what you’re looking for.

We’ve posted some information on our site before about keeping your furnace area clear of combustibles and making sure that your furnace is able to get the required amount of air, as well as some other things to watch out for, and that’s about as much information that I think there should be available to the average homeowner anyway.

Those are all easy, common-sense safety items. I would never try to tell someone how to clean their own gas furnace, even if it was going to save them a little bit of money today.

Take this example… If you wanted to save yourself some money, would you search on the internet for some information and then change the brakes on your car? Some people could do it, but it would not be recommended. Some things are best left to a qualified professional.

A gas furnace cleaning and inspection is available with any duct cleaning job that we do at City Duct Cleaning, but we will always send a licensed gas technician to do at least that part of the job.

Good indoor air is characterized by the absence of contaminants of any kind, whether biological or chemical, in gaseous or particulate form. It should have no odour — though it is important to note that the reverse is not true — absence of an odour does not mean absence of contaminants. It should have no irritating or adverse health effect on occupants. It should have the right temperature and relative humdity for health and comfort of the occupants.

In 1979, the World Health Organization convened experts who recommended that guidelines be drawn up to protect the health of the occupants of homes.

City Duct Cleaning has over two decades of experience in this field including research on house performance, new house construction, renovations and mechanical systems. Members of our staff have also participated in numerous Indoor Air conferences.

There are a number of ways to improve your indoor air quality, and you can trust the experts at City Duct Cleaning Inc. for honest advice. We will always give you straight answers and we will never provide biased information based only on commercial interests.

Air duct cleaning in Toronto is our specialty of course, but there are also a number of clean air products available on the market. Some of them are really quite good, however, there are some products that we do not believe in ourselves for, practical reasons.

If you want straight answers regarding your indoor air quality concerns, talk to the experts at City Duct Cleaning.

The staff at City Duct Cleaning Inc. would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a very happy and safe holiday season.

Besides cleaning air duct systems and furnaces, City Duct also specializes in removing attic insulation. There are many reasons why someone would want to have their attic insulation removed, and those reasons include contamination by animals or rodents, the homeowner has just found out that they’re allergic to it, or in this case the homeowner was planning to renovate their attic space.

I’m not sure if this insulation was blown in as good as it could have been, to us it didn’t really matter because we were there to remove it anyway.

There is alot to know about attic insulation, much more than you’d think. And its one of the most important energy saving investments that you can make.

After we remove someone’s insulation we usually recommend the Best Toronto Insulation Contractor, a company called Matrix Insulation. I know for a fact that their finished product looks much better than it does in this picture, and they are extremely knowledgeable about what they do. We like working with the best people in their fields and the guys from Matrix can give you a real education about your attic insulation if and when you need it. 

If you’re looking for air duct cleaning, furnace cleaning or even attic insulation removal, give City Duct Cleaning a call today! We’re the best in Toronto at what we do, and you already know about all our awards, right?

Don’t forget, Daylight Saving Time ends once again this weekend. The clocks are set to fall back one hour overnight Sunday. The time change begins at 2 a.m. local time in the Toronto Area. Fire officials are also reminding people to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

Now would also be a good time to change the batteries in your programmable thermostat as well.

If the fall is the time of year that you normally have air duct cleaning done in your home, then take a look at our current specials and a duct cleaning coupon that is available.

What parts of an air system should be cleaned? 

There are three major parts to every air system. The supply and return grills, the interior surfaces of the supply and return air ductwork, and the furnace or air conditioner air handler. All three components must be cleaned when doing an air duct cleaning. If only one or two of the components are cleaned and any part of the system is not done, then contaminants from the third component will rapidly contaminate those that were cleaned.

Alot of duct cleaning companies in the Toronto area quote prices to clean the ductwork and air vents only, and then either skip the very important step of cleaning the HVAC equipment or air handlers, or they ask for exhorbitant additional charges to clean these components if you wanted to have those parts of the system done also.

I have learned this from discussions with a number of air duct cleaners over the years. The price that got them in there was what they consider to be an ”introductory” price. Now that they’re in there, they’re going to nail you with extra charges if they can, and if you don’t want to pay extra then you’ll get what you pay for.

At City Duct, every job that we do, whether it is a home in the Toronto area or a business, it always includes the cleaning of the HVAC equipment.

When cleaning the air duct system(s) in a home, we clean the furnace fan, the inside air conditioning coil, the furnace plenums and the air filter. On a commercial job we would always clean the air handler or rooftop equipment, and that always includes the fans, coils (both evaporator and condensor coils), the plenums, air filters… and everything in the air stream.

The cleaning of all air handling components is crucial to any air duct cleaning job. We can also replace worn insulation inside your HVAC units as needed, and often provide scheduled filter changes and maintenance.  

We have some very detailed specification sheets that we have been using since we started back in 1987, and they are very similar to the NADCA spec sheets that are in existance today.

The photos above show a rooftop HVAC system that serves an air duct system that we recently cleaned in Markham, Ont. There are two shots of a rooftop exhaust fan that serves a dryer duct system that we recently cleaned in Mississauga. The second of those shots shows what a difference we have made afer having only blown off the lint with our high-pressure compressed air. That fan looked pretty amazing after we washed it too.

Here are some examples of why it makes good sense to keep your air duct systems in good repair. The photos below show some of the recent dryer exhaust ducts that we have cleaned, but the principle applies to any air duct system whether it is for an exhaust system or for heating or cooling in a home or a business.

The first set of photos shows a broken 90 degree elbow that was found by our inspection camera or duct cam. The duct being photographed in this case is in a retirement home. We measured it out and broke a hole in the ceiling, and the dryer lint that fell out of the hole onto the floor was enough to fill five green garbage bags. You wouldn’t believe how much lint there was above that ceiling.

  
 
Duct cleaning is obviously our company’s main business, but I’ve been in the HVAC industry for almost 30 years as well, and have installed hundreds of new furnaces, central air conditioners, electronic air cleaners, HEPA systems, humidifiers and even complete duct systems. So doing minor duct repairs such as this one was not difficult for us to manage at all.

I’ve been finding out from my customers over the years that it was quite hard for them to find a heating company who is even interested in doing duct repairs of any kind, and several people have told me that. Most of the companies that they called before they found us said they basically do new installations only.

The same applies to dryer exhaust ducts as well. If you need your’s to be replaced, re-routed or to have a brand new one installed from scatch, or if you need new outside vents with bird screening installed, give us a call. We are here to serve you. Providing excellent service for reasonable costs and winning loyal customers is what we do best.

The second set of photos shows the state of a dryer exhaust duct that we found. The duct system was previously cleaned by another duct cleaning contractor and this is the way they closed the access hole… with duct tape only!

Duct tape is good for many things, but it is definitely not meant to act as a permanent fix in this situation. The hole had very rough edges, so they obviously didn’t even know how to use their sheet metal snips. All that was required to make this one right was to remove all the tape, trim the metal to make it flat, and then to simply screw a metal plate on it. It took me longer to go downstairs to my truck and come back with a metal plate than it did to fix the ductwork.

My best advice when looking for a duct cleaner to do any job, whether it is in your home or in a business or commercial establishment is not to assume that all duct cleaning companies are equally knowledgeable or reputable.

It amazes me sometimes how people can get away with doing such shoddy work. In this case, the duct went for 16 feet, had two turns seperated by 12 feet of duct, and then there was a stack 90 where the duct went into a riser. And from there it went up six floors to a fan on the roof… and there was not a single access hole anywhere else to be found. So how did they clean this duct system? There absolutely has to be access into the duct system at the bottom of the riser. Always. Anyway, we fixed everything up and made this one work like new again.

Getting back to duct repairs, from patching holes to adding a new vent to re-routing or moving duct runs or even your main ducts, at City Duct we do it all, residential or commercial. Call us if you need any of these things done. We’d be glad to help.