Duct Cleaning in Kenosha, WI
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Eight months of heat means eight months of dust moving through your ducts
Your furnace runs October through May in Kenosha County. That is most of the year pushing air through the same ductwork, and every pass carries dust, pet hair, and whatever else is in the house into the trunk lines and branches. It settles in the bends and behind the registers where the airflow slows down.
Winter nights here average 18°F, so the furnace is cycling hard on the coldest stretches, moving more air more often. With 19 winter storms and 43 damaging wind events on record over the past ten years, the county has also seen its share of power outages, and 18% of Wisconsin households went at least a day without power in 2024. A furnace that sits idle during an outage, then kicks back on, can stir up whatever has settled in the ducts since the last cleaning.
- 8 months
- October through May, your furnace pushes air through your ducts
- 3 months
- June through August, your air conditioner does the same
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
- How often should air ducts be cleaned?
- There is no fixed schedule that fits every home. If someone in the house has allergies, or you have had rodents or a water leak get into the ductwork, that is a reason to clean sooner rather than wait. Outside of a problem like that, a contractor can look inside the ducts and tell you honestly whether they need attention yet.
- Is air duct cleaning worth it?
- It depends on what is going on in your ducts. If you can see dust kicking out of the vents, or you just finished a renovation that left drywall dust in the system, cleaning is worth it. If your ducts look fine and your filter is doing its job, you may not need it. A contractor can look inside the ductwork with a camera and tell you honestly whether it will make a difference in your house.
- What does air duct cleaning involve?
- A contractor connects a vacuum to the duct system to pull air through it at high pressure, then uses brushes or air whips to knock loose dust and debris from the inside of the duct walls so the vacuum can pull it out. Each supply and return vent gets opened and cleaned. The furnace or air handler cabinet, the coil, and the blower usually get cleaned too, since that is where a lot of the dust collects.