Meet the Team

A job starts with the truck. The vacuum is mounted on it, not carried in, and it pulls the whole duct system under negative pressure through a collection hose we connect at or near the air handler. Before that hose runs, the crew walks the house and counts supply registers and returns. We lay drop cloths at the equipment, cut or open an access point, and seal every register with tape or caps so the suction goes where we want it. Then we work register by register: agitate first with rotating brushes or compressed-air whips sized to the run, pull the loosened material back toward the vacuum, then open the next one. Returns and the return plenum come last because that is where the heaviest load sits. We pull the blower compartment, look at the blower wheel, and check the evaporator coil. If the coil face is matted, we say so and quote coil cleaning separately rather than pretend air movement will fix it. The filter goes back in clean, or gets replaced, and we show you the before and after at the access point.

Most calls here are one of four things: dust settling on furniture days after you wipe it, a musty smell when the system kicks on, a remodel or flooring job that put drywall and sawdust through the returns, or a new homeowner who has no idea what the last owner did. We work on Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem and American Standard equipment, residential split systems and package units, flex and sheet metal trunk alike. We also tell people no. If the ducts are clean, the liner is intact and the real problem is a filter that has not been changed since spring or a return pulling unfiltered attic air, cleaning the ducts will not change what you are smelling. In that case the fix is filter replacement on a schedule, or sealing the return so it stops drawing from the cavity. We would rather do the smaller job and be the people you call next time.

Greater Houston duct loading comes down to length of cooling season, dew point, and where the ducts sit. Systems run nearly continuously April through October, so filtration media loads fast and anything that bypasses the filter plates out across coil fins and the first few feet of supply trunk. Attics in this region reach 130-140°F in summer; ducts run through that heat carrying 55°F air, so any gap in insulation or vapor barrier makes a condensation surface. Sweating flex duct and wet attic insulation around boots are routine findings, and wet fiberglass liner plus organic dust is where microbial growth starts. Spring brings pine, oak and later ragweed pollen; Gulf Coast mold spore counts stay elevated most of the year. Storm and flood history matters: homes that took water had duct boots and return chases at or below the flood line, and lower-run ducts in pier-and-beam or unsealed chase cavities can retain silt and odor for years. Construction dust from the region's ongoing new building, plus industrial and ship-channel particulate on the east side, adds to the load. Most Houston-area systems warrant inspection every 3-5 years, sooner for homes with pets, post-renovation, post-flood, or returns pulling from unsealed attic or wall cavities. What moves the cost on a duct cleaning here is the count of supplies and returns, whether the house runs one system or two, how tight the attic access and headroom are over the runs, and condition: silt-packed lower runs, deteriorated flex, or liner that has been wet take real time, and badly damaged duct is a replacement conversation, not a cleaning one.