Duct Cleaning & Home Maintenance in Steinbach and Eastman

Steinbach is Manitoba's third-largest city and one of its fastest-growing, and the building that comes with that growth changes what duct cleaning means here. A large share of homes across Steinbach, Niverville and Blumenort are recent construction — which under Manitoba's building code means every one of them was built with a heat recovery ventilator.

That matters because an HRV is the piece of equipment homeowners are least likely to have ever touched. Its core and filters load up with dust, and in a tightly-sealed newer home the HRV is doing most of the actual ventilation work. A newer house with a neglected HRV can have worse air movement than a drafty old one. We clean the HRV as part of the whole-home bundle rather than treating it as an add-on.

Newer construction also means renovation and build dust. Drywall dust, sawdust and cut-off debris go straight into open ductwork during construction and finishing, and unless the system was cleaned after the fact it's still sitting in the runs. Several of the before/after photos on this site are exactly that — a duct boot full of construction debris cleaned back to bare metal.