About Us

A job starts with the truck-mounted vacuum. We run the main hose through a door or window to the air handler, open the system up, and pull negative pressure on the whole duct run before a brush touches anything. Then the crew seals every supply and return register with tape or foam plugs so the suction has one path to follow. We work register by register from the farthest run back toward the air handler, feeding rotary brushes and compressed-air whips down each branch to knock loose what's stuck to the wall of the duct. Flex gets gentler tooling than sheet metal; the inner liner tears if you push a stiff brush through it. The plenum, the return drop and the blower compartment get hand-cleaned. We pull the blower wheel when it's loaded, because a caked wheel moves less air than clean ducts can make up for. Before we leave, the registers come off, get washed, and go back on straight.

We work on Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem and American Standard systems, residential split systems and package units both. Common calls here: dust blowing out of the vents a day after dusting, a musty smell that shows up when the air kicks on, visible growth on the register louvers, allergy symptoms worse indoors than out, and homes bought secondhand where nobody knows when the ducts were last opened. We also get calls after roof leaks and after a drain pan fails and soaks the return side. Related work often comes up on the same visit. If airflow is weak, the problem is usually a loaded filter, and air filter replacement on a sane schedule solves more than a cleaning will. If you're cooling the attic through gaps at the boots and collars, duct sealing is the fix. If the evaporator is fuzzy and wet, coil cleaning is where the smell is coming from. Sometimes we open the system, look, and tell you the ducts are clean. That happens, and we say so rather than running equipment you don't need.

Polk County sits between Tampa and Orlando on the Lake Wales Ridge: sandy soils, hundreds of lakes, surrounding pasture, phosphate mining land and remaining citrus and row-crop acreage. Systems here run eight to nine months a year, so duct interiors see more air volume and more moisture cycling than in northern markets. Slab-on-grade construction is near universal, which puts supply runs in vented attics that pass 130°F in summer. Cold air inside that hot humid space drives condensation anywhere insulation has slumped, compressed or torn. Flex duct dominates post-1975 construction and sags between supports, collecting dust in the low spots. Oversized older equipment short-cycles and never dehumidifies fully, leaving indoor RH high enough to support growth on fiberglass liner. Then there's the pollen: oak and bald cypress late winter into spring, pine in spring, grasses through the warm months, ragweed in fall, plus tracked-in sand, grove dust, controlled field burning and lovebugs twice a year. Lake-adjacent neighborhoods stay damp year-round. Most homes here benefit from inspection every two to three years, sooner after a roof leak, hurricane water intrusion, remodeling or a failed drain pan. As for cost, what moves it on a duct cleaning is the count of supply and return openings, whether the system is one air handler or two, how much of the run is flex versus sheet metal, attic access, and whether the blower wheel and plenum are loaded enough to need pulling apart. We look at all of that before we quote.