Negative air duct cleaning means connecting a powerful vacuum machine to the duct system so the whole system is under negative pressure. Dust loosened by the brushes is then pulled toward the machine instead of blowing out of the registers into the rooms. Your Neighbor's Air Care uses a negative-air machine on every air duct cleaning.
A negative-air machine is a large, powerful vacuum. It is connected to the ductwork, usually at a trunk line or the plenum, so when the machine runs it pulls air through the whole system toward itself. That pull is the negative pressure. With the system under negative pressure, the crew works through each supply and return run with rotary brushes. The brushes knock the dust loose, and the airflow carries it along the duct into the machine. Your Neighbor's Air Care connects the negative-air machine before any brush goes into the ducts.
Brushing a duct without strong suction just moves the dust around, and some of it blows out of the nearest register. The U.S. EPA's page on duct cleaning warns that an inadequate vacuum collection system can release more dust, dirt and other contaminants into the house than leaving the ducts alone. It also advises using vacuum equipment that exhausts particles outside of the home, or high-efficiency HEPA vacuuming equipment if the vacuum exhausts inside. Negative pressure is what keeps the loosened dust moving away from the rooms and into the machine.
Every air duct cleaning by Your Neighbor's Air Care follows the same order:
A vacuum held at each register reaches the first foot or two of the duct and little more. The trunk lines, the long runs and the returns stay as they were. The negative-air method treats the system as one path, with the machine pulling while brushes travel the full length of each run. That is the difference between cleaning the registers and cleaning the ducts, and it is why Your Neighbor's Air Care cleans every supply and return run instead of a sample of the vents.
Ask what collects the dust while the ducts are brushed, where the machine connects, whether every supply and return run is cleaned, and whether you will see the inside of the ducts before and after. A clear answer to all four is a good sign. Your Neighbor's Air Care's answers: a negative-air machine on the system, every run, and camera footage before and after, with a free quote before any work starts.
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A method where a powerful vacuum machine puts the duct system under negative pressure, so the dust loosened by the brushes is pulled into the machine instead of blowing into the rooms. Your Neighbor's Air Care uses it on every air duct cleaning.
Yes. Your Neighbor's Air Care connects a negative-air machine before any brush goes into the ducts, then cleans each supply and return run with rotary brushes.
It should not be. The negative pressure pulls the dust toward the machine and away from the rooms while the brushes work, and the registers are washed before they go back.
Someone has to let the crew in and be there at the end to see the footage. Your Neighbor's Air Care arranges a time between nine in the morning and nine at night, any day of the week.
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