New-Construction Duct Dust-Out in Bastrop
Construction debris out of the ducts before you move in.
01Bastrop — the housing record
What Bastrop 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
- 4,792
- Built pre-1980
- 25%
- Built 2000s
- 33%
- Built since 2010
- 26%
- Gas heat
- 33%
- Electric heat
- 64%
- Single-family
- 67%
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
Bastrop splits across build eras — 25% pre-1980, 26% 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 Bastrop
The part that changes from street to street.
Bastrop divides between the old streets below Main, where the houses predate 1980 and central air was added to them long after they were framed, and the newer sections out toward Tahitian Village and the highway, where nothing is more than fifteen years old. What the two halves share is smoke. Between the pines, the grass and a fire season that now covers most of the year, this county gets stretches where the outdoor air is genuinely bad, and that is when the phone rings about ducts. The honest answer is that cleaning a duct after a smoke event removes what settled and does nothing about the next one. What protects the inside of a house during smoke is a return side with no leaks, a filter that seals in its rack, and running the fan on recirculation with any fresh air path closed. Late-winter pine pollen behaves the same way. Heat is electric across most of the county, so the coil rather than a furnace is the part we open first.
Bastrop State Park
- Tahitian Village ·
- The Colony ·
- Pine Forest ·
- Historic Downtown
County
Bastrop County
Same standard in Bastrop 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.
- Full-system source removal tuned to drywall and construction fines
- Both plenums cleared and a fresh filter installed
- Camera verification photos of the finished runs
- Builder- and closing-ready completion report
- From
- $449
- On site
- 3–5 hours
- 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.
03New-Construction Duct Dust-Out — in this stock
Post-work clean-up, either way.
Whether the debris landed in a 1975 system or a 2019 one changes the method more than the price. The camera confirms which you have before anyone quotes a scope.
Shouldn't my builder have cleaned the ducts already?
Sometimes it's in the contract; often it's skipped or done superficially in the rush to closing. Ask your builder for documentation — an invoice and photos.
When is the ideal time to schedule a dust-out?
After the final sanding and paint work, before move-in — that's when the ducts have collected everything they're going to collect and your belongings aren't in the way. Already moved in? Still absolutely worth doing; the work is identical, we just add drop cloths and a little more care around furniture..
04Book in Bastrop
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 Bastrop, answered straight.
Shouldn't my builder have cleaned the ducts already?
Sometimes it's in the contract; often it's skipped or done superficially in the rush to closing. Ask your builder for documentation — an invoice and photos. If they can't produce it, our camera answers the question in an hour, and the pre-clean photos give you standing to raise it before your warranty window closes.
When is the ideal time to schedule a dust-out?
After the final sanding and paint work, before move-in — that's when the ducts have collected everything they're going to collect and your belongings aren't in the way. Already moved in? Still absolutely worth doing; the work is identical, we just add drop cloths and a little more care around furniture.
There was smoke in the air for days. Should we have the ducts cleaned?
Not as the first step. Cleaning addresses what has already settled inside the system, and by the time you call, most of what came in has landed on surfaces throughout the house instead. If there is visible soot at the registers we will look. Otherwise the money does more good sealing the return side and fixing how the filter seats in its rack.
Our downtown house got central air added in the 1980s. What do you find?
Retrofit compromises. Trunk lines threaded through an attic or crawl that had no room for them, boots cut through old ceilings and never sealed, and a return grille sized for a much smaller blower. We measure static pressure before quoting, because on these houses a bad number usually means a crushed or disconnected run, and cleaning that run would not have helped you.
We heard something moving in the attic and now one vent smells.
That is one of the few situations where cleaning is unambiguously the right call. Rodents get into flex duct easily on wooded lots out here, and droppings and nesting material inside a supply run are a documented reason to clean rather than a judgment call. The other half of the job is finding how they got in. Cleaning without sealing the entry buys you one season.