5 Ways to Improve Air Quality in Your Home

Indoor air quality starts to become a concern in winter months as we start to spend more time indoors, and less time opening windows to let in fresh air. Here are 5 tips to improving your indoor air quality and ensuring your family stays healthy all winter long.

Keep your house tidy

Regular dusting, sweeping, mopping, and wiping are all effective ways to keep the dust in your home at bay. You do not need to be obsessive about cleaning, but things like removing shoes when entering the house and dusting surfaces once a week will make a difference in your air quality.

Keep your pets bathed and groomed

Fido might be adorable but his dander and fur are not! And as the weather outside gets colder, your pet will most likely be spending more time indoors just like you. Make sure to brush and wash regularly, as well as wash any bedding or soft toys to keep the dander at a minimum.

Keep humidity down

Mould is a serious health risk in itself causing symptoms ranging from a runny nose to asthma attacks and other respiratory tract issues. Make sure the humidity in your home is under 30% in the winter and under 45% in the summer. Use ventilation and fans when cooking, showering, and other activities that generate moisture. Run a dehumidifier if you need to, and make sure there are no water leaks in your house.

Make use of Indoor plants

One NASA study showed that there are some plants that help to purify the air to an extent from chemicals that have been linked to eye irritation and headaches - benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene, xylene, and ammonia. These chemicals can be found in seemingly innocent household objects such as napkins, cabinetry, paints, rubber, and household cleaners. Peace Lily and Florist’s Chrysanthemum are two of the most effective plants for helping to remove some of these toxins from the air.

Have your ducts cleaned

Your air ducts are home to dust, dirt, mould, bacteria, construction garbage, flakes of skin and hair. These contaminants are released into the atmosphere of your home, causing indoor air pollution, and environmental sensitivity.  The air ducts require periodic cleaning to reduce these airborne contaminants and to create a cleaner safer home for you and your family.

Georgian Duct Cleaning is a family owned business in Simcoe County with over 20 years experience working with residential, commercial and industrial HVAC ducts. Call us for a free quote or for more information. (705) 722-5952 Or 1-800-363-2563

Why Should You Clean Your Office Air Ducts in the Spring?

Having your air ducts cleaned in the spring is a great addition to your home cleaning tasks, but it shouldn’t stop there. Arranging to have your office air ducts cleaned after a long winter will have a huge impact on your office air quality.

Over the winter months, office air ducts can become contaminated with dust, dirt, mold and bacteria. And if you completed any office renovations during the winter months, including painting, you may still be breathing in those harmful contaminants.

Dirty air ducts in a commercial environment can contribute to various issues, including employee absenteeism, dirt and staining on the walls and ceiling, and occupant discomfort.

Occupant discomfort is one of the more serious signs of poor indoor air quality that often leads to absenteeism. Symptoms that mimic a colds or the flu including headache, fatigue, sinus congestion, coughing, and sneezing can all indicate occupant discomfort. If your employees get sick and miss work often, investigating air quality may be a great option for boosting their morale.

Office and commercial buildings, just like your home, require periodic air duct cleaning. Without periodic cleaning, bacteria, dust, fungal growth, and building materials will be forced through your building every time the HVAC and Air Conditioning system operates.

HVAC and Air Conditioning systems are often large and complex, serving multiple work areas and multiple floors. These complex systems require expert cleaning and maintenance to ensure contaminants are properly removed.

In order to effectively clean these systems, our certified technicians use robots to inspect, clean and sanitize confined spaces and complex duct systems. Our Ventri Clean system is a high volume air knife that is used to slice through dirt, with a rotating silica carbide brush eliminating stubborn pollutants. Our powerful truck mounted or portable HEPA vacuum system allows us to handle any size of heating, air conditioning or exhaust ducts, in homes, high-rise buildings, commercial buildings, schools, hospitals and factories.

Ready to start breathing healthy air? Contact us today for a free quote on your office air duct cleaning.


GEORGIAN DUCT CLEANING - SIMPLY THE BEST THERE IS! Our team of fully trained, certified technicians would be happy to provide any of our services in your home or commercial building.

Georgian Duct Cleaning is a family owned business in Simcoe County with over 20 years experience working with residential, commercial and industrial HVAC ducts. Call us for a free quote or for more information. (705) 722-5952 Or 1-800-363-2563.

How to Improve Air Quality in Your Office With Air Vent Duct Cleaning

During the winter months, we recirculate up to 85 per cent of indoor air!

This recirculated air is mixed with outdoor air, filtered and conditioned several times each hour to provide comfort and ventilation.

Recirculated air can come into contact with pollutants and contaminants, especially if Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems (HVAC) are not properly maintained. Not only can this impact employee morale and productivity, it can also create a negative image that affects your bottom-line.

Schools, offices and commercial buildings often have complex mechanical systems that require expert cleaning and maintenance to ensure that contaminants are properly removed. It is important to clean your HVAC system annually, but if you notice any of the following signs, you should clean your system as soon as possible.


Four Signs You Should Clean Your HVAC:

1. Visible stains on walls and ceilings

2. Poor indoor air quality

3. Occupant discomfort including health-related concerns

4. Employee absenteeism

Occupant discomfort is one of the more serious signs of poor indoor air quality that often leads to absenteeism. Symptoms that mimic a colds or the flu including headache, fatigue, sinus congestion, coughing, and sneezing can all indicate occupant discomfort.  If your employees get sick and miss work often, investigating air quality may be a great option for boosting their morale.

Georgian Duct Cleaning has the expertise to navigate the large and complex systems used by office and commercial buildings. A review of blueprints combined with visual or robotic inspection of interior conditions will determine recommendations for a suitable cleaning program for the affected area of entire building if necessary.

Our commercial duct cleaning services have been employed in Schools, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Daycare Centers, Banks, Restaurants, Shopping Malls, Churches, Automotive Dealerships, Arenas, Fitness Centers and Large Sports Venues.

Georgian Duct Cleaning is a family owned business in Simcoe County with over 20 years experience working with residential, commercial and industrial HVAC ducts. Call us for a free quote or for more information (705) 722-5952 or 1-800-363-2563

Ontario Duct Cleaning Buyers Beware!

There are some great duct cleaning and furnace servicing companies out there in Ontario - and there are some that should be closed down.

The good duct cleaning companies are run with integrity, transparency and are motivated to help people by offering the best customer experience, great service and products with absolute professionalism.

Unfortunately the duct cleaning side of our HVAC industry is unregulated and as a result there are many companies out there who are not in the business to offer a service with integrity and honesty. 

They are motivated only by money. So you have to watch out for them. I'm giving you this advice because I don't want you to fall for the scam.  As we often get the phone call afterwards from the homeowner afterwards to tidy up the mess.  They always say they wished they would have called us in the first place, and if they did, our quote, which can be a little higher but it's honest and we have a local guarantee for our customers.

Watch out for the scams - Here are some typical examples you can spot with these companies:

• They do aggressive telemarketing, often from overseas
• Advertising duct cleaning for the whole house for $99 dollars - often this is impossible
• Advertising duct cleaning for $39.95 plus $7.95 per vent - not good
• They use mail coupons and Groupons and do not seem to be present on the internet - they have to have a good website - don't you think!?
• They do not have a truck marked with a company name, and maybe they don't have any official name that can be scene and viewed
• They have a negative air machine and do not use compressed air or brushes to clean you vents
• They shove a vacuum hose down your heating vents and thats all they do
• They claim that duct cleaning takes under 1 hour to complete
• Telemarketers calling your home randomly to offer you they’re unbelievable deals on duct cleaning - often saying their truck is in your area and they will give you a special price

There are a number of other obvious and not so obvious scams and such going around ... So here are some key questions to ask when looking to hire a duct cleaning company.

1. Do they use compressed air or brushes to agitate the dust in you ducts?
2. Do they have a negative air machine either portable or truck mounted to recover the dust and debris from your ducts?
3. Are they local?
4. How long does the cleaning take? On a home of 2500 Sq Ft and under it should take no less then 2 1/2 hrs and that is for a very basic and efficient duct cleaning

Checkout our Website at www.georgianductcleaning.ca we use all the proper methods and equipment and we have videos from the manufacturer of our equipment that give you complete transparency of our methods and equipment so we can clean your homes heating and or cooling ducts.

This link takes you to a video from Marketplace on CBC. It’s a great piece they did on exposing these blow and go companies in the Toronto area, You can be sure that we have plenty of the same kinda companies across Ontario. http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/episodes/2013/01/when-the-repairman-knocks-3.html

Please feel free to contact us anytime if you have any questions about proper duct cleaning methods, equipment and pricing. Call us at 705-722-5952 for a FREE QUOTE.