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Air duct work in Dallas, TX

Dallas holds two very different duct problems inside one city. In the pre-war and post-war neighborhoods, Oak Cliff, East Dallas, older pockets of Preston Hollow, a meaningful share of the housing predates 1980, and some of the 1950s and 60s ranch houses were built with duct cast into or beneath the slab.

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01Where to start in Dallas

Not every city needs the same thing first.

Older stock means retrofitted runs, joints that have worked loose, and flex that has spent decades in an attic. Look before you clean — a repair found first is cheaper than a cleaning done twice.

  1. Camera Duct Inspection & Air-Quality Assessment
    01$99

    Camera Duct Inspection & Air-Quality Assessment

    See inside your ducts before you spend a dollar on cleaning.

  2. Duct Repair & Replacement
    02$495

    Duct Repair & Replacement

    Crushed, disconnected, or torn runs put back the way they should have been built.

  3. Full-System Air Duct Cleaning
    03$349

    Full-System Air Duct Cleaning

    Whole-home source-removal cleaning of every supply and return run.

An ordering suggested by the city’s housing record below — not a diagnosis of your home. Prices shown are starting estimates and may change with the condition, access, and scope we find on site. Only a written quote from an on-site visit is a price we commit to.

02The record

Dallas by the numbers that actually change the work.

Dallas — housing recordACS 2023
Housing units
584,643
Built pre-1980
35%
Built 2000s
21%
Built since 2010
13%
Gas heat
33%
Electric heat
65%
Single-family
42%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2023), tables B25034, B25040 and B25024. Percentages are rounded and describe the city, not your house.

What that means for ducts

Retrofit-era ductwork

About 35% of Dallas's homes went up before 1980, which is before central air was designed into a house rather than added to it. Duct runs in that stock were threaded through attics and crawl spaces after the fact, often more than once, and the flex in them has had decades of Texas attic heat. Expect route surprises, expect joints that have worked loose, and expect a system nobody has opened.

That is a reading of the city’s stock, not a diagnosis of your home. Which of it applies to you is exactly what the camera settles — and why we would rather run one than quote from a postcode.

On the ground in Dallas

Dallas holds two very different duct problems inside one city. In the pre-war and post-war neighborhoods, Oak Cliff, East Dallas, older pockets of Preston Hollow, a meaningful share of the housing predates 1980, and some of the 1950s and 60s ranch houses were built with duct cast into or beneath the slab. Those runs can hold water, and once they have, no amount of brushing makes them right. The honest recommendation is often abandonment and overhead rerouting, which is not what anyone wants to hear. The other Dallas is vertical and rented. Most housing units in the city are not detached houses, and in an apartment or condo the ductwork is short, closet-mounted and not yours to modify, which makes filter size and return sealing the only levers that actually exist. Electric heat is the norm across both halves, so the indoor coil rather than a furnace is where we look first.

Neighborhoods84 ZIPs
  • Highland Park ·
  • University Park ·
  • Lakewood ·
  • Preston Hollow ·
  • Lake Highlands ·
  • Oak Lawn ·
  • Bishop Arts ·
  • Uptown ·
  • Downtown ·
  • Greenway Parks ·
  • Bluffview ·
  • M-Streets ·
  • White Rock Lake ·
  • Casa Linda

County

Dallas County

03Everything we do in Dallas

The whole list, with the prices on it.

Duct Cleaning

5

Inspection & Diagnostics

3

Sealing & Repair

4

Treatments & Purification

4

Construction & Renovation

2

Comfort & Scent

1

Commercial

1

04Book in Dallas

We cover all 84 Dallas ZIP codes.

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Dallas, TX

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05Questions

Asked in Dallas.

Our 1958 Dallas ranch has ducts under the slab. Can those be cleaned?

Under-slab duct is common in that era across Oak Cliff and northeast Dallas, and it is a genuinely different problem. Those runs can hold water, and once they have, cleaning is not a durable answer. We inspect by camera and tell you honestly when abandonment and overhead rerouting is the real fix.

I rent an apartment in Uptown. Do I have any say over this at all?

More than you would guess, though not over the duct itself. Most Dallas housing units are not detached houses, and in a building the ductwork belongs to the owner. What you control is the filter and the return grille, and a correctly sized filter changed on schedule outperforms nearly anything else available to a tenant.

Every spring the air in the house feels gritty. Is that coming from the ducts?

Usually not from inside them. In older East Dallas and Oak Cliff houses that grit is more often attic insulation drawn in through leaky returns and unsealed boots than anything living in the duct. We find where the system is pulling air from first, because sealing that path fixes the complaint and cleaning alone tends not to.

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