Detroit Homeowners: Save Money And Increase Efficiency With Quality Ductwork!

As most of you know, Detroit's chilly winters can lead to costly home heating bills. Not only that, cold winter weather can also highlight a home's inefficiency. If your home feels cold and drafty despite the heating system continuously running, it means your Detroit home isn't nearly as energy-efficient as it should be. This not only results in high energy bills, it also results in an eruption of unnecessary pollutants and carbon emissions coming from your home.

Make Energy-Efficiency a Priority

One of the best ways to increase a home's efficiency is to repair and maintain the air ducts. If your Detroit home heats via forced-air heating and/or cools via central air conditioning, it does so with air ducts.

There are two kinds of air duct systems. Supply ducts blow, or distribute, heated or cooled air into the rooms of your home, while return ducts send the air back to the furnace or air conditioner to be re-heated or cooled. This cycle repeats during chilly winter months and warm summer months until the temperature set on your thermostat is reached.

If, however, your home's ductwork is clogged, leaking, outdated, or damaged in any way, this cycle is far from efficient. Instead, the home will experience significant heat loss, wasted energy, and pricey heating bills. The truth is that leaky air ducts can lose up to 40% of a home's heated or cooled air before it even reaches the living space. That's a lot of wasted energy, and a lot of money spent on heating or cooling that you and your family will never be able to enjoy.

Other Ways Quality Ductwork Makes a Difference

Quality ductwork installed and maintained by a certified Detroit ductwork specialist will not only increase your home's energy efficiency and help save money, it will also:

* Improve safety. Leaky ducts can result in pressure imbalances and back-drafting. To protect yourself and your family from carbon monoxide exposure, repair leaky ducts as soon as possible (particularly if your home is heated via furnace or wood stove).

* Make your home more comfortable. Why? Because if you can eliminate the air loss commonly associated with leaky air ducts, it will be easier for your HVAC to efficiently and quickly heat and/or cool your home. This means you won't have to bundle up with blankets all winter or keep fans running all summer, because the heated or cooled air you're paying for will stay inside where it belongs. In short, quality ductwork will protect you and your family from the volatility of Mother Nature, and make your home more comfortable and livable year-round.

* Improve indoor air quality. Leaky air ducts, particularly return ducts, can result in poor air quality throughout a home. Do you really want to breathe in the air coming from your basement or crawl space all day? If not, hire a certified Detroit ductwork specialist to repair your home's air ducts today!

* Decrease prevalence of dust and allergens. Poor-quality air ducts can cause imbalances in pressure throughout the home. If you notice that some (or all) rooms have a large amount of dust, pollen, or dirt particles, this could very well be the result of leaky or clogged air ducts.