How Do You Clean Air Conditioning Vents?
If bouts of coughing and sneezing plague your family at home, perhaps your dusty air conditioning vents and ducts are to blame. Rather than learning to live with your allergenic symptoms, try cleaning your air conditioning and heating vents. Reach up with a household broom and dust the vents of registers in the ceiling. This helps to remove dust and dirt. You may have to sweep the floor afterward. For floor vents, you can also use a traditional duster. Unscrew the vent covers and set them aside. Take your vacuum cleaner, put on an attachment and suck out the dust bunnies. Tape the vacuum attachments to the vacuum hose in order to avoid losing them in your ducts, especially when working on floor registers. Hire a professional duct cleaning service for a deep cleaning. These companies have high-strength vacuums and industrial bristle-brushes that can reach far beyond the range of a household vacuum. You can rest easy because professional vent cleaners have insurance, so if they mess up y