subject: Furnace Cleaning Calgary - Why Cleaning Your Furnace And Duct System Makes You Healthier [print this page] Furnace cleaning in Calgary is a MUSTFurnace cleaning in Calgary is a MUST. You have to have your furnace, vents and ducts professionally cleaned on a regular basis... at least every two years...if not sooner.
Cleaning your furnace and duct system more often is essential in Calgary if you have been doing any kind of renovation, if you have bought new furniture or you have women in the house that use a lot of hair products, nail polish and other "solvents" that produce gasses.
In reality, if you have a hobby where you use glues, fertilizers, paints, or create dust of any kind, in Calgary you need to get your furnace cleaning done at least every year, if not more.
Even if you don't have any kind of hobby that uses toxic chemicals, even the process of cooking food creates a huge amount of harmful gasses. It is best to always have your hood fan on while you cook, but even then some of the delicious smells of your food stay in the house. A little bit is a good thing, but if it never leaves the house, these gasses build up and create havoc in our body.
Most of the time Calgary has very cold weather. We like to make our homes as energy efficient as possible to keep utility prices low. That means we try to make our homes so we don't lose much heat. There is no ventilation to help clean out the pollution.
When you bring anything into the home that creates dust or toxic odours, it all stays in the duct system of your house, always increasing, never decreasing.
Toxic odours have a cumulative effect on the body and mind. They wear away at our immune system gradually. We may not notice any symptoms at the moment, but almost all people are suceptible.
Toxic gasses and contaminated dust particles have been shown to cause everything from headaches, to allergies to cancer and dementia. The Health Canada has estimated that as much as 50 percent of all illnesses in our society can be traced poor ventilation causing a build-up of pollution in our homes.
Some have compared the smog/ pollution in our homes to be worse than the smog build up in a New York traffic jam at rush hour. Imagine that! This is simply because, because of the cold weather, we don't have good ventilation our homes. Even if we leave our windows open in the summer, it is usually not enough to let all the toxic fumes out of the home.
It's just a cold reality of our modern living. Be aware, unless they are certified to be free of toxicity, the materials that your home is made up of the products we use and consume in our daily lives were never meant to be breathed in all the time. Small exposures might be ok, but constant exposure, day in, day out is just too much for our immune system.
So, what do you do? You have to live.
There are some "best practices" that can make a big difference in the air quality of your house.:
First, make sure you vacuum your house on a regular basis. Use the kind of vacuum system that sends all the "bad" air out to the garage or outside. If you don't do that, all the dust and toxic chemicals that have settled onto the floor are picked up by your vacuum cleaner and blown up in the air for you to breathe in again...very bad.
Second, do what you need to do to set up an energy efficient fresh air exchange system in conjunction with your furnace. This will vent the indoor air out and bring in fresh air without costing you more money is energy expenses - the cold from outside will become warm from the air going out. This system of heating outside air will need to be set up by a Calgary furnace maintenance technician.
Last, but not least, as a Calgary resident make sure you get your furnace cleaning done REGULARLY!!
If you live in Calgary, you need to heat your home for most of the year. Your vents and duct system accumulate toxic particles. Every time your furnace comes on all the toxic accumulated dust in the ventilation system circulates them throughout the house. New particles get stuck to the duct system and every time the air blows through, you again get the "benefit" of all your "sins" (toxic particles and gas).
The Calgary furnace cleaning company you hire needs to have the best high performance vacuum cleaning equipment with brush technology. This is what you need for cleaning the vent and duct system.
The technician that does your ventilation system cleaning in Calgary needs to have proper training and experience to take care of YOUR particular situation properly.
Furnace cleaning and duct cleaning are the simplest things you can do to protect the health of you and your family if you live in Calgary. A quick call to a local furnace and duct cleaning professional will do wonders for you.
