Air Duct Cleaning in Cloverleaf, TX

That's the first thing we look at in Cloverleaf, because a lot of the 1950s and 60s pier-and-beam houses here have duct runs sitting in a damp, vented crawlspace. If the flex duct still has an intact inner liner and the insulation jacket isn't soaked or shredded, cleaning gets you real improvement. If rodents have chewed through the liner, or the jacket has been sitting in standing water after a hard rain and the insulation is matted and sour, cleaning won't fix that. You'd be scrubbing a duct that's already leaking crawlspace air into your house. We'll tell you which sections are worth cleaning and which ones are past it, instead of cleaning everything and calling it done.

Mostly the number of supply and return openings and how easy they are to reach. Small frame and brick houses in Cloverleaf usually have a modest register count, which keeps things simple. What adds time is crawlspace access. If a tech has to work under the house on his back to reach a run, or if the return is a single large undersized grille loaded with road grime, that's more labor than a slab house with attic runs. Mobile homes have their own layout with belly duct, which we price differently than a stick-built house. We walk the house and tell you what it takes before we touch anything.

You're sitting right on the I-10 East corridor with industrial traffic all around. Diesel soot and road dust are fine, oily particles that your return pulls in through every gap in the house, and they stick to the grille, the filter and the first few feet of return duct. On top of that, leaky returns in the crawlspace pull unfiltered dirt straight off the ground. Cleaning the system helps, but if your return is pulling from under the house, we'll point that out. Otherwise the grime is back faster than it should be.

East Harris County off I-10 is easy for us to reach, so same-day is often possible, especially earlier in the week. The honest limit is weather. After heavy rain, crawlspaces in Cloverleaf hold water, and we won't send a tech under a house into standing water. If your appointment falls after a big storm, we may ask to push a day so the ground drains. Calls where there's a smell or visible mess at the vents get moved up.