Did you know that the ductwork attached to your heater or air conditioner plays an even greater role in keeping your home comfortable than perhaps the HVAC system itself? It’s true. Your HVAC system can only heat or cool the air. It’s up to the ductwork to channel that air to the various rooms of your home — with the help of the blower of course.
Keep reading to learn all about ductwork and why you need to make sure that yours is properly sized and completely airtight. Then give our team a call for your free duct inspection and insulation evaluation. If you decide to invest in an upgrade, you can save 30% on the total bill up to a total of $1,200 in savings.
Importance of Properly Sized Ducts
Your HVAC system needs to be properly sized in order to heat and cool your home effectively. The same rule applies to your ductwork. If you have too much ductwork, more air is going to get trapped and remain in those extra ducts instead of blowing out into your home. If the network of ducts is too small, it may not accommodate keeping your home as comfortable as you would like.
When ducts are properly sized, they fit both the size of your home and the size of your HVAC system. The network of ducts optimize airflow and ensure that your home has even temperature control without major fluctuations from room to room. If your ductwork is too small, you may have certain rooms that don’t heat up or cool down as much as other spaces in your home.
Benefits of Duct Insulation
Aside from sizing, you also want to have ductwork that is well-insulated. The thin metal sheeting that ductwork is made of can allow for temperature fluctuations before air reaches your home. Cool air can be offset by extreme temperatures outside of the ductwork during the summer and heat can escape during the winter.
Insulation helps to keep heat on one side of the ductwork or the other. In the summertime, it protects your ducts so that cool airflow can pass through without rising and temperature. In the winter, insulation helps to keep the heat in your ductwork so that it can channel all the way to the rooms of your home without getting too cool.
Aside from boosting your comfort, this also helps your HVAC system to work more efficiently. When your ductwork negatively affects temperature control in your home, your heater or air conditioner has to work harder. It must blow out more cool air in the summer or heated air in the winter in order to change the temperature enough to make your home comfortable. But with duct insulation, heat balance is optimized and your HVAC system won’t have to work as hard for you to see results.
Risks of Duct Problems
It’s also important to have inspections of your ductwork at three to five year intervals. This gives our team an opportunity to clean out any dust buildup inside the system and address any damage that needs to be repaired, including to the surrounding insulation. Sometimes ductwork can even shift around a little bit as time passes.
If this happens, we can get your ductwork back in place to optimize airflow. When ducts don’t receive proper care, you can easily spend 50% more on energy costs for heating and cooling your home. Your HVAC system working harder also adds strain that can shorten its lifespan.
Care for your ductwork is also an investment in your heater or air conditioner. Give us a call today to schedule your services and enjoy our 30% off deal before it’s gone.
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