Duct Repair & Replacement in Dallas
Crushed, disconnected, or torn runs put back the way they should have been built.
01Dallas — the housing record
What Dallas 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
- 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.
02Working in Dallas
The part that changes from street to street.
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.
Reunion Tower
- 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
Same standard in Dallas 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.
- Camera photos of the damage before any repair is quoted
- Crushed, torn, or disconnected runs replaced with new flex or rigid duct
- Both collars sealed with mastic, and the run supported so it cannot sag
- Insulation restored to the code in force where you live
- After photos of every repaired run, with the written scope you approved
- From
- $495
- On site
- 2–4 hours for a single run
- Scope
- 5 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.
03Duct Repair & Replacement — in this stock
Leakage in retrofitted runs.
Duct leakage is worst where the ductwork was added later, and in stock this age it is common to find a system losing a meaningful share of its conditioned air into an attic. That shows up on a summer bill long before anyone thinks about ducts. Sealing here is often the higher-value purchase than cleaning — and unlike a cleaning, it has a before-and-after number attached to it.
Ask us anything about this on the phone — a person answers during opening hours.
All duct repair & replacement questions04Book in Dallas
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 Dallas, answered straight.
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.
Duct Repair & Replacement nearby
- Irving ·
- Garland ·
- Mesquite ·
- Richardson ·
- Carrollton ·
- Coppell ·
- Highland Park ·
- University Park ·
- Addison ·
- Farmers Branch
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