Why Should You Clean the Fan Regularly?
You probably regularly sweep your floors, vacuum carpeted areas, and change your bed sheets, but there are likely some tasks that fall further to the wayside. Cleaning your ceiling fan might be one of those tasks. If you’re like many people, chances are you can’t even remember the last time you cleaned your ceiling fan.
Though it might seem unnecessary to clean it often, there are several benefits to making sure your ceiling fan is cleaned and dusted regularly. Stay on top of all your regular cleaning items with our weekly cleaning service.
Health
The most important thing about cleaning your ceiling fan regularly is that the quality of your air will be cleaner and healthier for you and your loved ones to breathe. When fans aren’t cleaned regularly, dust and grime build up and can be shed and redistributed when you flip the fan on. That dust and grime can aggravate respiratory issues and allergies.
Fan Life
Leaving all the dust and gunk to build up makes the fan motor work harder to accomplish its job, and this additional wear and tear can drastically shorten your fan’s lifespan. Keeping ceiling fans clean and free of grime helps them to last longer and keeps you from having to replace the fan sooner than you normally would.
Energy Costs
This may seem like a small thing, but when your fan cannot operate at maximum efficiency, that costs you money in the long run. When your fan is dirty, it has to work harder. When it works harder, it’s using more energy. More energy means more money. Instead, cleaning your fan and keeping it clean helps it to work more efficiently, as it has been designed to do. Efficiency leads to reduced energy consumption, and thus reduced energy costs.
Fire Risk
Having all that build up on your fan increases the fire hazard in your home. In addition to being on the blades, dirt and dust can accumulate inside the fan’s motors as well. This can greatly increase the risk of a fire. As with any kind of fire risk, this puts not only your home but also your family in hazardous conditions. Having a clean ceiling fan protects your family and home in more ways than one.
Appearance
This might be the most obvious benefit. Dirty ceiling fans are an eyesore, and they can be immediately evident. That’s also why they can be easily neglected. You likely walk by that dirty ceiling fan and think that you’ll tackle it later — but it is easy to forget about it. To have a truly clean home, your ceiling fan is just as important as the floors you walk on.
How Often Should Fans Be Cleaned?
As with many household items, how often you clean your fan will depend on a few different factors:
- – The type of fan. How your fan is controlled says a lot about how often it should be cleaned. If a flick of a wall switch turns it on, it might not have to be cleaned as often as one that is remote controlled.
- – Whether it is indoor or outdoor. Outdoor fans will need to be cleaned more often because they can accumulate dirt, dust, and grime much faster than indoor fans.
- – How often you use the fan. If you use your fan frequently, it likely needs to be cleaned more often. Many fans benefit from a yearly deep cleaning, but if you’re using your ceiling fan all year long, you’ll want to consider cleaning it more frequently. If it’s dirty, it’ll just keep distributing grime and dust whenever it spins.
- – How dusty your home is. If your home is a dusty space, your fan will have to be cleaned much more frequently. Regularly checking your fan will quickly indicate how much dust and dirt has accumulated.
Why You Should Trust the Professionals
You may think that tackling the ceiling fans in your house is an easy task and that you’re up for the job. That’s all fine and well, but consider how true these words are — if your schedule is jam-packed, you may not have time to take care of the issue on your own. The accumulation of dirt might also be too much for you, or you might have allergies that would be triggered by cleaning the fan.
A professional Austin cleaning service has the skills and equipment to take care of cleaning your fan — and the rest of your home — for you. At Blue Daisy Maids, we pride ourselves on our attention to detail, right down to the blades on your fan. Contact us today and get a quote on cleaning your home from top to bottom.
