Camera Duct Inspection & Air-Quality Assessment in The Colony
See inside your ducts before you spend a dollar on cleaning.
01The Colony — the housing record
What The Colony actually has behind its walls.
Before anyone quotes a duct job here, this is the stock they are quoting against. It is public Census data, and it is different in every city we cover.
- Housing units
- 19,022
- Built pre-1980
- 4%
- Built 2000s
- 34%
- Built since 2010
- 27%
- Gas heat
- 28%
- Electric heat
- 69%
- Single-family
- 69%
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
Mixed-era stock
The Colony splits across build eras — 4% pre-1980, 27% since 2010 — so two houses on the same street can need completely different work. It is the case where guessing from the curb is worst, and where a camera before a quote saves the most money.
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.
02Working in The Colony
The part that changes from street to street.
Almost nobody in The Colony heats with gas. This is an electric city, which means heat pumps with resistance strips as backup, and that changes both what we inspect and what we get called about. Every year in the first week of real cold we take calls about a hot metallic burning smell coming out of the vents, and in a house like this it is almost never the duct. It is dust burning off the resistance elements the first time they energize after nine idle months, and it clears within a few cycles. What is worth checking in these houses is the coil and the drain pan, because a heat pump cools in long low-temperature cycles and the coil stays wet for hours at a stretch. The city itself splits cleanly. There is the original 1980s build-out on the peninsula, where the flex has now had forty years and the systems are compact and closet-mounted, and there is the newer wave around Grandscape and the Austin Ranch side, where nothing has been in service long enough to accumulate much of anything.
Grandscape
- Stewart Peninsula ·
- Castle Hills line ·
- Tribute ·
- Austin Waters
County
Denton County
Same standard in The Colony as everywhere else.
Source removal to the NADCA ACR standard, a written quote before anything is touched, and camera photographs of your own runs before and after. We are not going to re-argue that on every city page — it is set out once, in full, on the service page.
- Photo documentation of every accessible supply and return run
- Written condition report with dust-load and moisture notes
- A clean-now, clean-partial, or not-yet verdict measured against EPA guidance
- Filtration and next-steps advice included at no extra charge
- From
- $99
- On site
- 60–90 minutes
- Scope
- 4 lines
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.
03Camera Duct Inspection & Air-Quality Assessment — in this stock
Why the inspection matters most here.
Mixed-era stock is exactly where the inspection earns its keep, because the honest answer genuinely differs house to house and nobody — including us — can tell from the curb. You are buying a verdict with photographs behind it, and you keep the verdict whichever way it goes.
Is the $99 inspection just a setup for selling me a cleaning?
No — it's priced to stand on its own, and a meaningful share of inspections end with 'not yet.' You get photos, a written report, and a verdict measured against EPA's conditions. Plenty of customers use it to evaluate another company's quote, which we consider a perfectly good outcome..
What does the camera actually show?
Dust depth, debris, moisture staining, growth-suspect areas, torn liner, and crushed or disconnected runs — through every accessible supply and return plus both plenums. You watch the screen live as we go, so by the time the report arrives, you've already seen everything in it yourself..
04Book in The Colony
Three fields, and a person calls you back.
Tell us the ZIP and we will tell you what your system likely needs — including, sometimes, that it needs nothing yet. Nothing is charged until you have approved a written quote.
05Questions
Asked in The Colony, answered straight.
Is the $99 inspection just a setup for selling me a cleaning?
No — it's priced to stand on its own, and a meaningful share of inspections end with 'not yet.' You get photos, a written report, and a verdict measured against EPA's conditions. Plenty of customers use it to evaluate another company's quote, which we consider a perfectly good outcome.
What does the camera actually show?
Dust depth, debris, moisture staining, growth-suspect areas, torn liner, and crushed or disconnected runs — through every accessible supply and return plus both plenums. You watch the screen live as we go, so by the time the report arrives, you've already seen everything in it yourself.
The vents smelled like burning on the first cold night. Should we be worried?
Almost certainly not, and we will not sell you a cleaning over it. In an all-electric house that smell is dust burning off the resistance heat strips the first time they run after a long summer, and it goes away within a few cycles. If it lasts longer than that, or smells acrid rather than dusty, call us and we will look properly.
Our house is from the late eighties on the lake side. What is the realistic condition?
Original flex of that era is at the end of a long life. Insulation compressed at every strap, liner often torn at the bends, and a system that was compact to begin with. We scope it and give you a verdict run by run. Sometimes the useful spend here is replacing two bad runs rather than cleaning twenty.
We have a heat pump, not a furnace. Does that change the inspection?
It removes combustion and adds moisture. There is no cabinet or flue to check, so the attention goes to the indoor coil, the drain pan and the first few feet of supply plenum. Heat pumps run long low-temperature cycles that leave the coil wet longer, and that is where a biological problem in a Colony house usually starts.
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