Air Duct Cleaning in Texas

Licensed & insured Every company we put you through to holds current licensing and insurance.
Know what to ask You are told what actually decides the price, so you can judge a quote.
Someone local You are put through to a technician who works your area, not a call center three states away.
Calls answered 7 days Someone picks up seven days a week, weekends included.

Is it urgent?

Can wait

This is almost never an emergency. It is worth doing when there is visible growth on duct surfaces, evidence of rodents or insects inside the system, or so much debris that it is visibly coming out of the registers. If none of those are true, a clean dry duct system does not need doing on a schedule, whatever anybody tells you.

Two things override everything on this page. If anyone has symptoms of carbon monoxide exposure — headache, nausea or dizziness that improves outdoors — leave the building and call the gas utility or the fire service, not a duct company. And if you can smell burning while the dryer is running, unplug it and leave it.

Signs to look for

Visible dust or debris being blown out of a supply register when the system starts
A musty or stale smell in the first minute of a heating or cooling cycle
Evidence of rodents or insects inside the ductwork — droppings, nesting material, a smell
Recent renovation or drywall work with the system running, which puts fine dust right through it
Visible growth on the inside of a register boot or on the duct surface itself

How the work is done

Inspecting the system first, including inside the ducts with a camera, so the work is based on what is actually there
Sealing the system and putting it under negative pressure with a HEPA-filtered collection unit
Agitating the interior surfaces — rotary brush or air whip depending on whether the duct is sheet metal or flexible
Cleaning the components that are usually the actual source: the blower wheel, the evaporator coil and the return plenum

In Texas specifically

In Texas the ductwork is generally in vented attics above slab-on-grade homes, where summer attic temperatures routinely pass 140 degrees, which is most of why this job looks the way it does here. Texas attics get brutally hot, and that is where almost all the ductwork is. Flexible duct insulation degrades, tape lets go, and joints separate — so a Texas duct problem is usually a heat-damage problem rather than a dirt problem, and cleaning alone does not fix it. The same heat makes leakage expensive: air lost from a duct in a 140-degree attic is air the system has to make up, and it is the quiet reason a Texas cooling bill can be high on a system that tests fine otherwise.

Before the technician arrives

Four things worth doing — and the first one is usually the thing people get wrong.

Ask for the before-and-after photographs of the inside of the ducts, and do not settle for photographs of the register grilles. The grille is the easiest thing in the system to clean and tells you nothing about the duct behind it.
Be wary of a price quoted per vent over the phone before anyone has seen the system. The number of vents is not what decides the work.
Clear access to the air handler, the return grilles and every supply register, which usually means moving furniture off a few of them.
Note where the smell or the dust is worst. One bad branch is a different job from a whole dirty system.

What the work looks like

Photographs of air duct cleaning being carried out, so you know what to expect on the day.

How it works

Three steps, and you decide at the end of them.

1
You call and describe the problem

Tell us what you have noticed and where — the room, the smell, the noise, how long it has been going on. Give us your ZIP code and we will match you to a licensed company covering your area. There is no form to fill in.
2
A local company takes it from there

They discuss the problem with you directly, arrange a time to inspect, and agree the work and the price with you before anything starts. That conversation is between you and them.
3
You decide whether to go ahead

You are under no obligation. If the quote or the approach is not what you wanted, you are free to say no and call someone else.

Air Duct Cleaning — FAQs

Do I actually need Air Duct Cleaning done?

This is almost never an emergency. It is worth doing when there is visible growth on duct surfaces, evidence of rodents or insects inside the system, or so much debris that it is visibly coming out of the registers. If none of those are true, a clean dry duct system does not need doing on a schedule, whatever anybody tells you.

What does Air Duct Cleaning involve?

Source removal: the ducts are put under negative pressure with a HEPA-filtered vacuum while the interior surfaces are agitated, so what comes loose leaves the building rather than being pushed into the rooms.

What makes this different in Texas?

In Texas the ductwork is generally in vented attics above slab-on-grade homes, where summer attic temperatures routinely pass 140 degrees, which is most of why this job looks the way it does here. Texas attics get brutally hot, and that is where almost all the ductwork is. Flexible duct insulation degrades, tape lets go, and joints separate — so a Texas duct problem is usually a heat-damage problem rather than a dirt problem, and cleaning alone does not fix it. The same heat makes leakage expensive: air lost from a duct in a 140-degree attic is air the system has to make up, and it is the quiet reason a Texas cooling bill can be high on a system that tests fine otherwise.

Are the companies licensed and insured?

Yes. We only pass calls to licensed, insured operators working in Texas, and you are welcome to ask to see a license number on arrival.

What does Air Duct Cleaning cost?

It depends on the property, the size of the system and what the inspection finds, so we do not publish a price — a figure quoted on a web page is not one the attending company has agreed to. You get a price before any work starts.

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