December 2009 - Ductworks

Disaster House provides valuable consumer information in addition to highly entertaining disasters. Insider tips on home-repair, how to prevent common disasters and what homeowners need to know before filing an insurance claim, make Disaster House a must see TV series for anyone who owns a home. Each week, contractor Josh Temple subjects a house to simulated storms and disasters to show homeowners what it takes to repair catastrophic damage. These outrageous experiments accelerate the typical wear and tear a house incurs and mimic common catastrophes so viewers can discover what it takes to repair some of the biggest mishaps homeowners face today.

In this episode, Josh Temple blows up a 5000 pound, six foot tall sand castle in the living room of the home to demonstrate an extreme case of dirty air ducts.

DIY’s Disaster House Team called Ductworks, Inc., Your Air Duct Cleaning Expert ™ to provide the Complete Ventilation Cleaning Package™. Ductworks used its patented air duct cleaning process which scraped and scoured the numerous pounds of debris from the walls the air ducts. Whew… What a job!

Don’t miss the premiere Ductworks, Inc. on DIY Network’s Disaster House – January 1st!

Ductwork is the mechanical system that distributes air through all rooms of your home. The steps listed below will give you a basic understanding of how your ventilation system works.

Your furnace/air conditioner turns on to temper the air to the desired temperature set at your thermostat.
Air enters the supply trunk line (the large rectangular metal box that extends overhead across your basement or crawlspace). Much like a tree trunk, the supply trunk line is the main distribution for airflow, attached to the trunk line are numerous smaller ventilation lines called supply lines.
Supply lines enter the numerous rooms within a home distributing the conditioned are through air vent registers.
Airflow circulates within each room to temper the air to the desired temperature.
Air is drawn from each room into return air vent registers (the larger vent registers typically located on the walls) to return lines, which attach to a return trunk line.
The return trunk line returns the air to the furnace/air conditioner filter.
The filter removes contaminants from the air and is drawn into the furnace/air conditioner.

This cycle of airflow continues until the temperature of air reaches the set temperature of the thermostat.

Month: December 2009

Ductworks, Inc. to appear on DIY Networks Disaster House January 1st!

How Air Flows Within A Home