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It is generally not a good idea to completely cover or close air vents. While you might have heard that closing vents in unused rooms saves energy, it does not improve HVAC performance or lower your energy bills. In fact, blocking, covering, or fully closing vents can create a buildup of pressure inside your ducts, which can lead to leaks, holes, or other problems. To maintain proper airflow, you should also avoid covering vents with furniture. If you want to reduce airflow to unoccupied parts of your home, it is better to partially shut the vents (between 50% and 75%) rather than closing them completely.

No, not all houses have ducts. It would be safe to say, however, that most modern houses do. The reason is that older houses had boilers in the basement that heated from the bottom up and often vents weren’t built into the house. Another reason is that older homes don’t have air conditioning (because it didn’t exist) and use radiators for heating. Since radiators don’t require ductwork, it wasn’t built.

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, or ASHRAE, sets the standard guidelines for air changes per hour in homes and businesses. The International Residential Code, or IRC, also sets ACH requirements for residences and bases those requirements off of ASHRAE standards plus climate specifics related to your location.

Air duct cleaning scams are, unfortunately, so common because the industry is largely unregulated, and technicians don’t need to hold licenses in most states. It’s also easy for scammers to use scare tactics to claim that your indoor air is potentially unsafe, which makes the service an easy sell. Finally, most homeowners don’t have access to their hidden HVAC ducts and can’t check on issues themselves, so it’s easy to claim that there’s mold or debris build-up in there and have it go unchecked.