Fabric Air Ducts - A Recent Job
A few weeks ago, we ran into an entirely new duct system that we have never seen before - Fabric Air Ducts! A property management company called Air-Care and inquired about having these fabric air ducts cleaned.
So we went out to this large commercial building to look at these ducts and how we were going to clean them. We were able to identify the manufacturer as FabricAir (www.fabricair.com). We told the customer that we would have to do some research and get back to him on how to clean these ducts.
We were able to get in contact with FabricAir quite easily. They quickly pointed me to the maintenance link on their website. We were actually shocked by the way you clean these air ducts. You simply remove them from their hangers, take them to a laundromat, wash them in cold water with a fragrance free detergent, spin dry them and hang them back up. The air blowing through the ducts after hanging them back up is what dries them and keeps them from shrinking. The manufacturer recommends that these ducts be cleaned up to twice a year.
We don't predict that these fabric air ducts are going to change the air duct cleaning industry. The only place we can really see them using this style of duct is in a large open commercial setting where large spiral ducting would be used overhead they put in these fabric ducts instead. It's a great idea as long as they're accessible to be removed and cleaned. If not, it could be a problem, because this style of duct does require frequent maintenance.
View the picture gallery we created to get a close up view of the fabric air ducts. This is just another example of the importance of hiring an experienced air duct cleaner to clean your air system!
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