Air Duct Cleaning in East Lake-Orient Park, FL

Frequently Asked Questions

1. My house is from the early 60s and I dust constantly — is that the ducts or just living near the rail and truck traffic?

   Usually both, and they feed each other. The coarse grit from nearby roadways and industrial activity settles outside, gets tracked in, then circulates. What makes it worse in a lot of houses around East Lake-Orient Park is the return. Homes of this era were often built with the return chase framed out of a wall cavity or a floor joist bay instead of real sealed duct. That cavity pulls air from inside the wall, the attic, and the crawl space, none of it filtered, and dumps it straight at the blower. Cleaning the duct system removes what's loaded in there now. But if the return is a raw cavity we'll tell you that, because otherwise it reloads faster than it should.

2. How fast can someone get out here?

   East Lake-Orient Park is close in on the east side, so getting a truck over is not the hard part. Most requests get scheduled within a couple of days. If you're calling because the system is blowing dust after a repair, or you just had work done on the air handler, say so when you call. That moves you up, because that's a situation where something is actively getting worse.

3. What usually turns out to be wrong in houses around here?

   The most common things we find are duct board plenums that have gotten soft or fuzzy on the interior face, flex runs patched with tape over older tape instead of replaced, and unsealed return chases. On a single-story house from the 50s or 60s that's still on its original system or a single replacement, the duct work is frequently older than the equipment attached to it. We also see flex that has sagged or kinked in the attic where someone crawled over it during a past repair, which chokes one or two rooms while the rest of the house is fine.

4. Can you do it the same day I call?

   Sometimes, depending on cancellations and where the crew already is that day. It's more likely in the middle of the week than on a Monday or Friday. We'd rather tell you honestly that tomorrow or the next day is realistic than promise same-day and leave you waiting. If it's a true can't-run-the-system situation, call and we'll see what we can shuffle.