Having well-sealed and insulated ductwork can dramatically affect your home comfort. Sealed and insulated ducts also provide greater energy efficiency and safer operation. Here are some specific benefits you can expect by having a qualified technician seal your ducts.

Improved comfort: Homes with poorly sealed ductwork often suffer from varying temperatures in different rooms. Sealing your ducts can help to ensure that the proper amount of conditioned air goes where it’s supposed to.

Enhanced air quality: When your ducts leak, they can pull in household chemicals and dust that aggravate your allergies. Sealing the ducts will improve your indoor air quality by reducing the risk of pollutants entering the ductwork and re-circulating through your home.

Improved safety: Combustion appliances like dryers, water heaters and furnaces are designed to release gases through venting systems to the outdoors. Leaky ducts can create a backdraft that draws these harmful gases back into your home. This is very dangerous, but sealing duct leaks can lessen the risk.

Financial benefits: Ducts that leak cooled and heated air into uninhabited areas of your home like the attic cost you up to 20 percent more on your utility bills.  Often the cost of having your ducts sealed will pay for itself in energy savings because of the improved efficiency of your ducts.

Protection for the environment: By using less energy, your home will have a smaller carbon footprint as it releases fewer greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.  Every home that makes small changes like this affects the environment for the better.

If you are interested in taking advantage of the benefits of ductwork sealing, contact Valley Heating, Cooling & Electrical, the home old-fashioned trustworthy service since 1962.  You can also call us at 408-294-6290 for more information.

Our goal is to help educate our customers about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems).  For more information about ductwork and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Resource guide.

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