The Benefits of Duct Sealing

Duct sealing can easily go overlooked, but it shouldn’t. Duct sealing is an important process to ensure the air quality in your home is at its best. It can make your home more livable, safer, and energy-efficient, too. Keep reading to understand duct sealing and its benefits.

What Is Duct Sealing?

Duct sealing is a procedure that involves sealing all leaks in a duct system. Your ducts can become unsealed because of a badly done installation job. Or unsealed ducts can occur from normal wear and tear over time. This can eventually cause connections between your ducts to become loose or disconnected, causing air to escape.

The duct sealing process fixes these issues by resealing your leaky ducts and ensuring your connections are all secure.

Why Should I Get My Ducts Sealed?

Over time, your AC system may start to get leaky ducts and loose connections, which can affect your AC’s efficiency, your home’s air quality, and other important factors. Choosing to have your ducts inspected and sealed can help with several issues.

Safety

With properly sealed ducts and a gas appliance such as a water heater, oven, or furnace, combustion gasses are released through the ventilation systems. A strong duct system can handle these gasses and move them out of the home safely. However, leaky ducts in your heating and cooling system may cause “back drafting,” where these gasses are drawn back into your home, rather than pushed to the outside.

Indoor Air Quality

We all want to breathe easily in our homes. Our duct system plays a part in us being able to do so! Particles and aerosols from household or garden chemicals, insulation particles, and dust can enter your leaky duct system. This can be aggravating for someone with asthma or allergies, as they will suffer the effects. Sealing ducts can help improve indoor air quality by reducing the risk of pollutants and particles entering ducts and circulating through your home.

Greater Comfort

Leaky or disconnected ductwork can be the culprit for those rooms that always seem to be too cold or too hot. Sealing and insulating ducts can help with this common issue.

Save Money

Are your cooling or heating bills especially high? It’s a good idea to have your ducts inspected. Leaky ducts can reduce the efficiency of your system by up to 20%! Sealing and insulating ducts will increase the efficiency of your system and lower your monthly bills. Plus, if you’re planning to install new heating and cooling equipment in the future, nicely designed and sealed ductwork may allow you to downsize to a smaller and less costly HVAC solution.

Be More Eco-Friendly

The energy sources we use in our homes are often supplied by burning fossil fuels at power plants, which adds to smog, acid rain, and overall climate change. The less energy we use in our homes, the less pollution we generate. By sealing your ducts and reducing the amount of energy necessary to keep your home comfortable, you can reduce the amount of air pollution generated.

Bottom Line

If your air conditioning system has been left unchecked, or if you are experiencing less efficiency than you used to, it might be a good time to get your ductwork checked. Keeping up with your ducts and necessary repairs will help ensure your home is as comfortable as possible.

Additionally, making sure your ducts are sealed and functioning properly will help keep the air quality inside your home safe, keep the environment healthier, and even save you some money. What’s to lose?

Elite Plumbing Heating and Cooling can help you get an assessment of your current cooling and heating systems and identify any issues within your ductwork. We would be happy to have our certified and skilled technicians help you on this journey!

Business Name – Elite Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning

Address:  3085 E Post Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89120, United States

Phone Number: 702-263-2665