How Improper Vent Cleaning Can Make You Sick, Especially In Calgary

Ensure Your Family Breathes Clean Air

Vent cleaning in Calgary is absolutely essential. You have to do it every year. There's no way around it. You could have the cleanest house in the world, but in Calgary, you have to have vent cleaning every year.

Every year? What's so special about Calgary that you need vent cleaning every year? In other parts of the country they recommend cleaning every two years. What makes Calgary different?

Here's the problem. It's really dry in Calgary. How dry? Well, the average relative humidity in the Sahara desert is 25%. In a typical Calgary winter, relative humidity levels can go as low as 5%.

What does that mean in terms of the critical need for annual vent cleaning in Calgary?

Here's the connection: A study published in 2008 in the publication "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science" said "when absolute humidity is low, influenza virus survival is prolonged and transmission rates go up." Another study published in the journal ìPloS Pathogensî by Melvin Kohn and Jeffrey Shaman found that using absolute humidity explained 50 per cent of influenza transmission and 90 per cent of virus survival.î This is serious.

Absolute humidity measures the amount of water actually present in the air, regardless of temperature. Relative humidity is "relative" to how much water is needed before it starts raining (the saturation level). The relative humidity number can be high at times but the actual amount of water in the air in Calgary is very low, especially in the winter.

The flu virus loves that because when the weather is dry, it is dustier in the house. The flu virus attaches itself to dust particles and travels freely around the house making people sick.

Why is it dustier in the house when it is dry? Ehow.com says "household dust is largely comprised of human skin cells, animal dander and dust mite excrement". When it's dry, we shed more skin cells and there is more dust in the house.

When our furnace starts blowing, in the winter, all the dust on the furniture, the carpet, on the counters and ledges in the house starts to blow around. It picks up moisture and oils from cooking. The moist, greasy, flu-laden air circulates through the ducts and sticks to the vents.

You might have noticed your family gets sick more often in the winter when the furnace kicks in and the air starts to blow around the house.

The solution is relatively simple. Get your vents cleaned regularly. Once a year is about right for most households but if you have done any renovations or if you don't vacuum your furniture and carpets often, you'll have more dust accumulation in your vents.

Be warned: simply having any old vent cleaning is not enough in Calgary. If you are going to do vent cleaning from a health point of view, it has to be done properly.

First, you need to vacuum out as much dust as possible with a high powered, truck mounted vacuum system. Then you need to hook up the vacuum to the source of the duct system near the furnace and blow the dust down to the vacuum from each of the vents to prevent vent-dust from blowing around the house.

Properly cleaned vents go a long way toward keeping your house dust-free and your family disease free...especially in Calgary.

If you haven't had your vents cleaned this year, give us a call right now. We'll send a vent cleaning specialist out to your house right away. You can help reduce sickness and allergies in your house simply and easily by having your vent cleaning done properly.

Click here for more information on vent cleaning in Calgary.

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