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STUFFY ROOMS?

DUSTY HOUSE?

IT COULD BE YOUR DUCTS…

A duct system that is properly sealed and insulated can make your home more comfortable, energy efficient, and safer. Making improvements to your duct system can: Improve Comfort Sealing and insulating ducts can help with common comfort problems, such as rooms that are too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter.

Enhance Indoor Air Quality

Fumes from household and garden chemicals, insulation particles, and dust can enter your duct system, aggravating asthma and allergy problems. Sealing ducts can help improve indoor air quality by reducing the risk of pollutants entering ducts and circulating through your home.

Promote Safety

During normal operation, gas appliances such as water heaters, clothes dryers, and furnaces release combustion gases (like carbon monoxide) through their venting systems. Leaky ductwork in your heating and cooling system may cause “backdrafting,” where these gases are drawn back into the living space, rather than expelled to the outdoors. Sealing leaks can reduce this risk.

Save Money

Leaky ducts can reduce heating and cooling system efficiency by as much as 20 percent. Sealing and insulating ducts increases efficiency, lowers your energy bills, and can often pay for itself in energy savings. Plus, if you’re planning to install new heating and cooling equipment, a well-designed and sealed duct system may allow you to downsize to a smaller, less costly heating and cooling system that will provide better dehumidification.

Protect the Environment

When power plants burn fossil fuels to make electricity, they release greenhouse gases. By sealing ductwork and using less energy at home, you can help reduce these emissions and fight global warming Air Duct Sealing with Soot-Set. Soot-Set is a non-toxic and non-flammable formulation developed as an air duct adhesive based on the shrink properties of a unique water-soluble polymer. A new type of fire inhibiting agent, containing aluminum, has been coupled to the polymer molecule to provide the safest to use material possible.

Ductwork FAQ's

We spend hundreds of dollars on energy efficient features, but recent studies on Southern homes show that we often overlook plugging the biggest 
energy waste—leaks in the ductwork for forced-air heating and cooling systems.

Q. Why is sealing the ductwork important?

A. Leaky ductwork often accounts for 10 to 30 percent of total
heating and cooling costs. For an average home, leaky ducts can
waste hundreds of dollars each year.
While the increase in energy costs is significant, protecting
health and safety is the most important reason to seal ducts.
Ducts are usually located in the attic, crawl space or basement. If
the return ducts leak, they draw air from these areas directly into
the home. This air can be contaminated with dust, mold, excess
humidity, and potential toxins such as pesticides for termite
treatment, combustion gases, and radon. When supply ducts
leak, they can create a lower pressure inside the house which
draws in contaminants, too.

Q. How do duct leaks affect heating and cooling
equipment?

A. If the duct leakage is 20% of the total air flow, the efficiency of
the cooling system can drop by 50%. Heating efficiency is
similarly affected. Duct leakage also lowers the heating and
cooling capacity, and can lessen equipment life. Many comfort
complaints in homes are due to poor ductwork.

Q. How do I know if a system has duct leaks?

A. Start with a visual inspection of the system. Energy codes
require that all joints in the ductwork be sealed. However, many
leaks are not readily visible. To determine if you have serious
leakage requires a pressure test of the ducts with a special fan.
The test involves temporarily taping over the registers, then
blowing air into the ducts with the fan to determine the amount of
leakage as well as the location of the leaks. The test takes about
an hour. Some contractors conduct the test for a nominal fee or
include it as part of a bid to seal leaky ductwork.

Q. Why is duct leakage so common?

A. Most connections are simply not sealed. There is also a
problem with poor quality materials being used to seal ducts.
Duct tapes do not provide a permanent seal. Their adhesive dries
out. Experts recommend non-toxic duct sealing formulation

Universal Air and Heat uses SOOT SET because Soot Set is a non-toxic and non-flammable formulation developed as an air duct adhesive based on the shrink properties of a unique water-soluble polymer. A new type of fire inhibiting agent, containing aluminum, has been coupled to the polymer molecule to provide the safest to use material possible. The product is dispersed by fine fog aerosol into air ducts after source removal. The dried, residual lining in all of the ducts resists blow out of material impossible to remove during the source removal step.

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