The Furnace Cleaning Experts

The answer greatly varies between homes. Ducts can become considerably dirty after a renovation for example or if a considerable amount of debris or dust accumulates.

Most people choose to have these services for personal reasons of having a clean furnace and ductwork free of dust and debris.

You should consider having the air ducts in your home cleaned if:

• There is substantial visible mold growth inside ducts or on other components of your heating and cooling system.
• Ducts are infested with vermin.
• Ducts are clogged with excessive amounts of dust and debris and/or particles are actually released into the home from your supply registers.

Other factors such as clogged vents or dirty coils can be reasons to clean your ductwork in order to make sure the airflow in your home is good.

Furnace and Duct Cleaning depend final costs depend on the following factors:

• Number of furnaces in the house
• Number of air vents, registers, and other vents
• Dryer vent location
• Air Conditioning 
• Chimney, Central Vacuum and other house accessories and/or appliances

Our base package includes 1 furnace and 10 air vents, for more information click here.

Most cleanings will take approximately 45 minutes to 90 minutes.

The cleaning system that we use is our own Multi-Zone TM cleaning method. We maximize vacuum pressure and cleaning effectiveness by isolating the cold air side of the heating system from the hot air side during the cleaning process. In order to access these two parts of the system separately, we cut two 8” bypass holes – one above the heat exchange on the furnace for the hot air side and the other on the cold air plenum for the cold airside.

Next, we connect the vacuum hose from our powerful custom-designed truck-mounted cleaning unit to each of the bypasses in turn, allowing us to use maximum suction at each vent and zone of the ductwork. Using an exclusive, in-house developed tool called a Roto-Whip TM, we then clean each individual vent, the Roto-Whip TM provides full contact cleaning on the inside of the ductwork to loosen dust and debris, but unlike conventional contact methods such as brushing, it can’t damage or disturb dampers in the HVAC system which are essential to even airflow throughout the home.

We complete the ductwork cleaning by using the PredatorTM multi-headed whip to move dust and debris from the main plenums (section of the ductwork near the furnace) to our vacuum hose.

The same tool is then used on the heat exchange of the furnace to ensure a thorough cleaning down to the corners. Last of all the blower is removed, air-washed, and wiped down after which the parts are re-assembled before the system is tested.

Our technicians undergo a different set of training as per NADCA guidelines and COR Work Safety standards.

Our technicians are trained in-house as per our cleaning expectations: however, they are not gas fitters. That is not a qualification that is needed to perform furnace cleaning.

Technicians adhere also to:

• First aid training
• COVID-19 awareness ( as mandated by the province and federal government )
• Daily and weekly briefings on a variety of things from industry updates to weather watches.

Truck-mounted units generate a better level of airflow; our units are powered by a large fan, which creates over 10,000 cubic feet per minute of airflow.

Our hoses are between 8 to 10 inches in diameter, in comparison to a normal vacuum hose, which is between 1.2 and 2 inches in diameter. Our higher level of airflow allows us superior suction throughout your ductwork to provide a more thorough cleaning. Portable units cannot provide the same level of airflow that our truck-mounted units do. 

In our research, we have found the whip system to provide “the best of both worlds” when it comes to cleaning.

With it, we are able to get the full contact cleaning associated with brush cleaning while offering the flexibility of pneumatic or high-pressure air cleaning methods to get around elbows and past dampers that are in your ducts.

Our testing has shown us that brush systems can often close dampers, stop at elbows, and in older homes where the ductwork may be more fragile, it can even cause it to come apart.

We recommend that the furnace and ducts are cleaned together as it is a forced air circulating system. That means that the air is moved not only through your vents and duct work, but through your furnace as well.

Cleaning one without the other would not be proper and would result in an incomplete and unsatisfactory job. If only one is cleaned and not the other, once completed and the furnace is turned on again it will just recirculate the dust from the soiled area into the clean area.