Doing this at least once or twice a year is sure to maximize the life expectancy of your refrigeration appliances.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It’s a scam because as you just pointed out they can only clear the registers and can’t get very far into the ducts.

    In most houses ducts have a lot of twists and turns. Some times your ducts will split off from the heavy sheet metal ducts and go down correlated tubes, etc.

    It’s damned near impossible to clean the entire ducts and even trying could mean damaging a part of the duct you can’t even access.

    The duct cleaners will try to convince you that they can clean every nook and cranny of your hvac system.

    They clean like 20% of your ducts and call it good. It’s pointless.

    Save the money and clean your own registers with some soap and water. The ducts won’t get cleaned anyway.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      The only duct I regularly clean thoroughly is the one for the dryer.

      I don’t want a lint fire.

      The rest, as long as they don’t have any obvious build up, they’re probably fine. If they do, clean the vent cover, register and whatever I can reasonably reach. 👍