Duct Cleaning in Toronto

Climate Works uses a 9 Step process for duct cleaning in Toronto and the GTA to ensure your ducts are clean, you are satisfied with the service, and your home is healthy.

1. Introductions & Setup: Meet your expert technician and let them know of any issues with your HVAC system, or areas where they should be ESPECIALLY careful. For Toronto and the GTA air duct cleaning, depending on the type of home you live in, we will either use our HyperVac Truck-Mounted Vacuum System or bring in a Portable Abatement Unit.

The duct cleaning technician will then run an 8″ vacuum hose from the truck (or portable unit) to the ductwork in your furnace room. The technician will then cover all vents in your home to produce the maximum amount of suction when it is time to clean each supply vent. The covers ensure dust stays out of the interior of your home while we clean the system.

2. Turn on the Vacuum: Your Toronto and GTA duct cleaners will then cut a hole in the ductwork (Don’t worry! We will repair it!), take “before” pictures (with only your permission), and then they will secure the vacuum hose to the main supply duct.

A high-pressure airline runs to a supply vent on the upper level of your home. The technician will then power on the truck-mounted vacuum and compressor. Operating the equipment is loud at times, but there’s no reason to worry! Since it is outside, you will barely even hear it.

3. Push Dirt from Supply Vents to the Main Supply Duct: When you opt for air duct cleaning in Toronto, you can expect a thorough and meticulous process. This push-whip isn’t your average cleaning device. It’s a carefully designed instrument consisting of multiple flexible, open-ended rubber tubes attached to the business end of a high-pressure airline.

When the technician opens the airline valve, air rushes out of each of the multiple open-ended rubber tubes, whipping them around your ductwork. This action loosens up any existing dust, dirt, and mould spores, and forces them into the main-supply vent.

4. Clean the Main Supply Duct: After all the supply vents are clean, the technician will proceed back to your furnace room. He will switch from a push-whip to a pull-whip.

A pull-whip is much the same as a push-whip except the rubber tubes are pointing rearwards, allowing for the technician to pull dirt back towards the vacuum hose connection. All the dust from your ductwork is sucked through the vacuum hose and into a truck-mounted HEPA vacuum bag.

The technician then detaches the hose from the main air supply duct and takes pictures of the interior of the ductwork to ensure visual cleanliness.

5. Clean the Air Return Vents: The technician will cut another small hole in your main return duct and take “before” pictures of the duct’s interior. The vacuum hose is then connected to the main return duct. The same process, as described in Step 3, is repeated, but on the air returns.

Commonly, return air runs are open spaces located in-between studs in your wall. If you hear a strange sound coming from inside your wall, don’t be alarmed! The noise is just the whip doing its job.

6. Clean the Main Return: The same process using the pull-whip as described in Step 4 is performed but within the main return duct. The technician then detaches the hose from the main supply duct and takes pictures of the interior of the ductwork to ensure visual cleanliness.

7. Air Handler and Coil Cleaning: Now that your duct work is thoroughly inspected and visually clean, the technician will open your furnace door. Then they will inspect your filter and vacuum out any remaining debris located within your air handler unit and sit atop your coil.

8. System Sanitization: The technician will then go back to each supply and return vent in your home and proceed to sanitize your ductwork. He will then sanitize both the main supply air and return air ducts.

Our system sanitization process removes any bacteria, mould spores, and or unwanted odours that may have been present in your ductwork.