Some of the questions that are important to your Los Alamitos home and important to duct cleaning are:

1. What are Seal Beach air ducts?
2. Why are the air ducts so important in a Seal Beach heating and air conditioning system?
3. Are there different types of air ducts?
4. What can go wrong with air conditioning ducts in Los Alamitos?
5. What is duct cleaning?
6. How do Seal Beach ducts undergo duct cleaning?
7. How much does duct cleaning cost or rather how much should you pay for duct cleaning?
8. Should I replace my ducts or have them cleaned?
9. How do I know if my ducts are asbestos in Seal Beach?
10. Why do air ducts get dirty?
11. What is the dirty buildup in air ducting made of?
12. How often should air ducts be cleaned?
13. What is in the ducting dirt?
14. How do I contact a good duct cleaning company?

California Code of Regulations
Title 16, Division 8, Article 3. Classifications

A warm-air heating, ventilating and air-conditioning contractor fabricates, installs, maintains, services and repairs warm-air heating systems and water heating heat pumps, complete with warm-air appliances; ventilating systems complete with blowers and plenum chambers; air-conditioning systems complete with air-conditioning unit; and the ducts, registers, flues, humidity and thermostatic controls and air filters in connection with any of these systems. This classification shall include warm-air heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems which utilize solar energy.

Authority cited: Sections 7008 and 7059, Reference: Sections 7058 and 7059 (Business and Professions Code)

It is pretty clear that in order to clean the ducting properly you must be a state licensed contractor.

1. What are Seal Beach air ducts?

Air ducts, air ducting, ductwork and some people even refer to them, as air ducks (quack-quack) are merely the medium that conveys the air through your heating and air conditioning system through your home.

2. Why are the air ducts so important in a Seal Beach heating and air conditioning system?

The air ducting in a home or business is crucial to the proper dispersing of heated air and cooled air through the building. Poorly designed and poorly installed ducts are the primarily sources of lost heating and cooling btus. Studies have shown average losses of btus to range from 35% to 45% of all lost btus are from the ductwork in the system. Most systems are installed poorly, never maintained and leak profuse amounts of air in the unconditioned spaces of the home. This leads to stagnant uncomfortable air in the home and business, the spreading of virus, molds, mildew and smells throughout the building. High electric bills and nigh gas bills are a direct result of poorly maintained and poorly installed furnace ducts and air conditioning ducts.

3. Are there different types of air ducts?

Yes. There are many different types of air ducts and they serve different purposes. For this Seal Beach web site, we will stick to the air ducting most commonly used in residential and commercial heating, air conditioning and ventilating systems.

The first type is metal ducting. Metal ductwork is made from mild steel. Metal ducts can be insulated on the inside or on the outside. Metal ducting is used inside the home or business and they can be used on the outside or on the roof. Roof top ducting is typically metal ducts with interior insulation. Prior to 1978, the most common form of insulation used for heating ducts, furnace ducts and air conditioning ducts in Seal Beach was asbestos bearing insulation. Now nearly all of the insulation on and in ductwork is mineral wool insulation, which is fiberglass. We can remove your asbestos air ducts and replace them with more efficient fiberglass insulated ducts in Seal Beach, or we can remove the asbestos insulation and replace it with fiberglass.

The second type of air ducts used for new furnace ducts and new air conditioning ducts in Seal Beach is Class One Flexible. It is a helical spring encased in nylon, insulated with fiberglass and sealed with a vapor barrier. A far more efficient and cost effective method of ducting a home or business.

The third type of ductwork is called N-Flex and this ductwork is made from a lightweight thin corrugated aluminum and is primarily used in commercial construction above drop ceilings. This corrugated aluminum ducting is used for the main trunk lines with class one flexible attached to it for the last 5 or 6 feet to tie into the air conditioning and heating ceiling diffuser.

The fourth type of air ducting is polythene and is used underground for air ducts serving many upper end homes by the beach. It is buried in the ground and covered by the concrete foundation. There are some of these duct installations in Seal Beach, but not many.

 

Seal Beach Heating and Air Conditioning

• We are your supply duct cleaner. These are the ducts in your attic.
• We are your blower wheel cleaner.
• We are you air filter cleaner and replacement specialist.
• We are your duct leak inspector.
• We are your furnace repair company.
• We check all furnaces for cracked fireboxes.
• We check all furnaces for gas leaks.
• We are your air grills cleaner.
• We are your heat exchanger and firebox cleaner.
• We are your heating coil cleaner.
• We are your cooling coil cleaner.

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We having been helping your neighbors in Seal Beach who have homes and businesses just like yours with building air problems just like yours for the last 20 years. We work on Payne heating and air conditioning, American Standard heating and air conditioning, Carrier heating and air conditioning,Trane heating and air conditioning, Bryant heating and air conditioning, RUUD heating and air conditioning, Janitrol heating and air conditioning, GMC heating and air conditioning, Nordyne heating and air conditioning, Coleman heating and air conditioning, York heating and air conditioning, Rheem heating and air conditioning, Intertherm heating and air conditioning, Heil heating and air conditioning, Tempstar heating and air conditioning, Consolidated Industries heating and air conditioning, Cozy heating and air conditioning, Lennox heating and air conditioning, mitsubishi, fredrich, honeywell, Ducane heating and air conditioning, Premier heating and air conditioning, Williams heating and air conditioning, thermostats, thermostat wiring, Samsung heating and air conditioning, heat pumps, water furnaces, hydronic heaters, boilers, zone controls, zone dampers, 2 stage air conditioning, hepa filters, forced air heating, air conditioners, 2 stage heating, 3 stage heating, electronic air cleaners, spilt mini ductless systems, white rodgers, accuclean, cleaneffects and more.

We are waiting for your call here in Seal Beach Monday through Friday, 7 am to 7pm and on Saturday from 8am to 5pm giving us a call is your first step to a cleaner, healthier duct system.

Check out your contractor to find out if they are insured. Do they have Worker's Compensation Insurance.

Our State License Number 794154

4. What can go wrong with air conditioning ducts in Los Alamitos, heating ducts in Seal Beach?

Air ducts often become crushed by someone standing or crawling over them. Duct cleaning brushes can puncture the inner liner and cause the duct insulation in your Seal Beach home fiberglass particles to float throughout the home. Sunlight can destroy the outer vapor barrier and render the fiberglass insulation on the ducts useless. Rats can make your air ducts home making duct cleaning impossible. The duct tape holding the ducts together can degrade and fall off allowing your furnace ducting to simple blow hot air into your attic. The firebox on the furnace can overheat and melt your ducts. The ducts can get wet and be a source for mold and mildew growth.

5. What is duct cleaning?

For the majority of discount duct cleaning companies, duct cleaning is the art of ripping off unsuspecting homeowners. If you want your ducts cleaned, then used a licensed heating and air conditioning contractor. Do not used a carpet cleaning company who isn’t qualified to disassemble your system and put it back together without destroying it. Don’t use a fly by night duct cleaning company promising you prices and service way too good to be true. The majority of ducts that have been in use for at least 5 years need a light cleaning, but the ducts aren’t where the real dirt is. The furnace blower motor, the firebox, the evaporator coil and the compartment under the heater, the return air chamber, is where the dirt is. These all need to be taken apart by someone that is qualified and then cleaned the old fashioned way, by hand, and then reassembled, tested and certified safe. This is something that no carpet cleaner is allowed to do, as it requires a State Contractors license (C20). Our license number is 794154. Duct cleaning requires a gigantic vacuum to pull a massive amount air under negative pressure backwards through the ducts to remove year’s worth of buildup. Sometimes agitation is required, brushes, to clean your Los Alamitos ductwork, sometimes not. Sometimes a skipper ball is used instead and sometimes nothing is needed. It depends upon your ducting in Seal Beach, it’s condition, it’s type and it’s installation. A skipper ball in air ducting looks like a ping pong ball with jets pointing backward. It is attached to a high pressure lightweight hose (I make mine the same way I did 20 years ago using cola hose (the hose hooked up to soda machines in fast food restaurants) and then to a 175 psi compressor. This is a scrubbing air jetter and does a great job without damaging the ducts.

6. How do Seal Beach ducts undergo duct cleaning?

This depends upon your system and type as described the previous section. Bear in mind that asbestos ducts, raw asbestos or asbestos insulated ducts, should not be cleaned. Loading the air you breathe in Seal Beach with asbestos fibers is foolish and dangerous.

7. How much does duct cleaning cost or rather how much should you pay for duct cleaning?

More than 80% of the duct cleaning's that we perform are performed for free. This is because we give the duct cleaning away as part of a new furnace installation. New furnaces move alot more air and when we install a new furnace in Seal Beach the ducting can be disturbed. Once the furnace turns on all that old duct debris become free floating particles throughout the home polluting everything and everyone they land on. The cost of Seal Beach duct cleaning is purely dependent upon the condition of the ducting and the furnace. That is why we always come to your owner occupied home in Seal Beach and provide you with a free evaluation and free estimate for duct cleaning.

8. Should I replace my ducts or have them cleaned?

If your ducting is more than 10 years old then give us a call and we will come out for a free evaluation, really. We perform free evaluations on owner occupied homes every single day. Many systems that are 10 years of age or older cannot be effectively cleaned as they are falling apart. The reason that they are falling apart is because the tape and method used to attach the ducting together was defective. The building code, the manufacturer’s installation instructions and the materials used were defective. Homeowners and business owners have been paying to clean up the destruction left behind. Those that haven’t had their duct system updated have been suffering with dirtier air, uncomfortable hot spots in their building, uncomfortable cold spots in their building and high utility bills. Sometimes we can fix them, sometimes we cannot. We can always make your ducts more efficient and add more comfort to your home or office in Los Alamitos.

9. How do I know if my ducts are asbestos in Seal Beach?

If the ducts are labeled “Alumabestos” they are asbestos. If they are off white in color and resemble a corrugated paper, they are asbestos. If your Seal Beach ducts are the color of aluminum and they are corrugated, as if made of cardboard, you have asbestos. Give us a call and we can verify this for you in Seal Beach as we have several decades of experience working with asbestos insulated ducting in Seal Beach. It is a free evaluation.

10. Why do air ducts get dirty?

Dirty air cleaner, dirty air filter, poorly fitting air filter, poor quality air filter, no air filter, broken ducts bypassing the air filter. The majority of filters used in heating and air conditioning system do very little to actually clean the air. They are designed to stop large particle from building up on your blower wheel and sending it off balance. They do nothing to clean the air and protect your lungs. Yes, we do indoor air quality as well and have many solutions, one of which will fit your needs. Give us a call and ask about indoor air quality solutions. We perform free indoor air quality evaluations in Seal Beach for owner occupied homes.

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Do you specialize in furnace air ducts only, or do you perform other home improvements in Seal Beach?

We many employees serving Seal Beach and each of these personally hand picked caring employees have been trained in a building improvement specialty so that they can give you the kind of Seal Beach heating and air conditioning service as well as Seal Beach electrical service and Seal Beach plumbing service that you have come to expect from the Empire Family of Services.

Seal Beach Heating and Air Conditioning

• We Provide Clean Indoor Air in Seal Beach
• We provide Furnace Duct Repair in Seal Beach
• We provide New Air Ducts in Seal Beach
• We perform Asbestos Duct in Seal Beach
• We are a Full Service Furnace Repair Company in Seal Beach
• We are a Full Service Air Conditioner Repair Company in Seal Beach
• We install New Air Conditioning in Seal Beach
• We supply and install New Furnaces in Seal Beach

 

We have current and active C10, C20, C36, C42 contractor’s licenses with the State of California.

• Bonded, Insured, Licensed, Factory Trained, Reliable, On Time
• All of our Seal Beach personnel are trained from the ground up so that you only receive professional competent honest service at your Seal Beach address.
• We have been in business nearly 20 years, not experience, our accumulated experience is measured in many decades. We have stood the test of time here in Seal Beach.
• We'll call your Seal Beach address, your work or your cell phone to let you know that we are on the way. You do not need to wait around for us.
• We only have employees in Seal Beach, not fly by night "subcontractors" or department store and big box retailer "duct cleaner of the week" agreements.
• We protect your valuable Seal Beach home by using drop cloths.
• We will never give a "fake" low price as a teaser and then jack the price up during the job.
• We have up front pricing for your Seal Beach improvement so you can make a knowledgeable decision with all the fact available.
• We provide many ways to to take care of your Seal Beach home including cash, check, credit card and monthly payments for those larger home improvements.
• Your home here in Seal Beach will be left as clean or cleaner when we leave as when we arrived.

How Often Should the Ducts Be Cleaned?

In an ideal world ducts should never have to be cleaned. if you have a quality filter and your heating and air conditioning system in Seal Beach is serviced once a year, then the chances that your ducting is going to get dirty is very remote.

Even commercial businesses that run their ducting system full blast 24 hours a day do not need duct cleaning every year. It is a waste of money, time and each time your ducts are cleaned they stand the chance of being damaged.

11. What is the dirty buildup in air ducting made of?

The majority of the dirt build up we see in ducting, blower wheel, fireboxes, blower motors and air filters is dead human skin. Every single person in Seal Beach sheds skin year round. Some of the dirt is carpet fibers, pollens, dust mites, dust and anything else floating in the air in your Seal Beach home.

12. How much should it cost in Seal Beach to clean furnace ducts?

If your quotes are less than a few hundred dollars don’t even bother to have them clean them. They are not doing the job properly. A duct cleaning is really a furnace and air conditioning system maintenance and will take a couple of air conditioning and heat service technician a few hours to perform. Many companies that are quoting utterly ridicules dollar amounts on the web and in print advertisement are merely bait and switch companies looking to lure you in for the catch, Duct cleaning cannot be performed by any licensed company for even a break even profit margin for $16.99 a vent, $37.99, $39.99, $79.99, $89.99, $99.99, $129.99 or $149.99. I found all these gimmick prices on the Internet today and they all have catches. These are called “loss leaders” in advertising. They are designed to get a slick salesperson into your door and then “discover” things that you have to have to have your ducts cleaned after you’ve already signed an agreement. I think it should be outlawed. Some years back I went to a duct cleaning class in Las Vegas. I wanted to see the newest equipment to see if it matched up to mine. It didn’t, but the majority of conference wasn’t about new and better equipment. It was about ways to “legally” misinform the public about duct cleaning and how to get at least $600 on every residential duct cleaning while advertising duct cleaning for $49. Bait and switch duct cleaners.

 

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