Meet the Team
Most of our work comes from Houston homeowners who called once and kept the number. That is the whole business model, and it shapes how we treat a first visit.
You call or book online, and we give you a two-hour arrival window, not a whole day. The person who answers asks what's going on: stained ceiling, dust on the registers, a new allergy problem, water in the house last storm season. That conversation matters, because it tells us what equipment to load. Before the crew touches anything, you hear what the job will cost and why. If something in the attic changes the scope once we're up there, we stop and tell you before we keep going. No one starts working on a number you haven't heard.
Houston runs the hard version of this. Gulf Coast humidity plus attic-mounted duct is the core problem set. Supply air near 55°F moving through 135°F attics means constant condensation risk on any duct with compressed, gapped, or wet insulation (sweating, dripping, stained ceilings, mold on the vapor barrier and at boot collars). The long cooling season moves a large volume of air through the same system, and 8 to 9 months of runtime loads filters and interior duct surfaces faster than in dry or short-season climates. Pollen is present nearly year-round: oak and pine February through April, grass late spring, ragweed August through October, mountain cedar drifting in on winter north winds. Clay soil movement cracks slabs and racks attic framing, pulling flex duct joints apart. On the east side, the Ship Channel and refinery corridor adds petrochemical particulate and diesel soot. Flood-affected homes carry residual silt and microbial growth in returns and floor-level boots. The realistic service interval here is tighter than national averages, 3 to 4 years for most homes, sooner after flooding, renovation, or pet and allergy complaints.
On site, the crew runs a truck-mounted vacuum with the hose brought to the air handler, seals off every register so the whole system pulls negative, then works line by line with rotary brushes and whips through each run back to the plenum. We pull and clean the boots, wipe the blower compartment, and show you the before and after on camera. We work on Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, and American Standard equipment, residential and light commercial. If we open your system and the duct interior is clean, we say so and charge you for the inspection instead of a cleaning you don't need. Sometimes the real fix is a filter change and the right MERV rating, or sealing joints that clay movement pulled apart, or a loaded evaporator coil that's choking airflow and making everything downstream look dirty. What moves the price on a duct cleaning here is the count of supply runs, how the attic is built and whether a crew can stand up in it, how far the boots sit from the air handler, and whether we find wet or failed insulation that has to be handled before cleaning does any good.
Our service area
We cover Houston and the surrounding towns. If you're in one of these areas and have a air duct cleaning problem, call us. We usually get out the same day.
When do we tell a homeowner not to clean the ducts?
More often than people expect. Cleaning a duct that is already wet wastes money. In Houston the supply air runs near 55°F through attics that hit 135°F. If the insulation is compressed, gapped, or soaked, condensation comes back within weeks. We open a boot collar and look at the vapor barrier first. Black growth on that jacket means replacement, not a brush and vacuum.
Flex duct is the other call. Clay soil moves under slabs here and racks attic framing. Joints pull apart at the plenum and at takeoffs. A separated joint gets repaired and strapped. A run that is crushed, kinked, or torn along its length gets replaced. Scrubbing it only loosens more fiber.
Cleaning is the right answer when the duct is dry and intact and the problem is load. Eight to nine cooling months push large air volume through the same system. Oak and pine pollen in spring, ragweed through October, cedar on winter north winds, plus petrochemical particulate and diesel soot near the Ship Channel corridor. That builds up on interior surfaces. It washes out.
Flood-affected homes get a different look. Silt sits in floor-level boots and returns. We check those before quoting anything.
Call us at (713) 234-4237. We'll tell you the price before we start. You can also reach us through the contact page if you'd rather send a message.
Call (713) 234-4237