New-Construction Duct Dust-Out in Manor
Construction debris out of the ducts before you move in.
01Manor — the housing record
What Manor 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
- 5,974
- Built pre-1980
- 1%
- Built 2000s
- 23%
- Built since 2010
- 71%
- Gas heat
- 19%
- Electric heat
- 76%
- Single-family
- 87%
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
New-build ductwork
Roughly 71% of Manor's homes were built since 2010. New does not mean clean: the commonest thing we pull out of a five-year-old system is the construction phase itself — drywall fines, sawdust, insulation fiber — plus builder-grade flex that was kinked or crushed on the day and has been throttling that run ever since. Photographs matter more here, not less.
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 Manor
The part that changes from street to street.
Manor has the youngest housing of anywhere we work, most of it finished within the last fifteen years and nearly all of it electric, which means a heat pump with strip heat and no flue anywhere in the building. That combination leaves us very little to sell and one thing genuinely worth doing. These houses are new enough that many are still with their first owner, and the systems coverage a builder writes runs out quietly while nobody is watching. A documented duct and airflow inspection before that window closes is the most valuable visit a house this age can get, because a flex run kinked over a truss or a boot that was never sealed to the drywall is the builder's problem right up until it becomes yours. The other item out here is water rather than dust. The air handler sits in an attic above finished ceilings, in a secondary pan with a float switch, and its condensate drain has usually never been cleared. That drain, not the duct, is what eventually comes through the ceiling.
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County
Travis County
Same standard in Manor 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
The build-out clean nobody did.
In new-construction cities this is the commonest job we run, and the commonest thing homeowners do not know they need. Ducts sit open through drywall, sanding and flooring; the system then runs that straight into a house on day one. A dust-out is cheap, fast, and the photographs make it obvious it was needed.
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 Manor
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 Manor, 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.
Our house is seven years old. Do the ducts need cleaning?
Almost certainly not, and we will put that in writing after looking. Seven years of ordinary use in a house that was clean when it was finished does not put anything in a duct worth removing. Spend the visit on the condensate drain, the coil and a check that the runs are intact, and keep the cleaning money until there is a reason to spend it.
What would a builder-warranty inspection actually turn up?
In Manor, most often a flex run pulled over a truss and kinked, a boot never sealed to the drywall so it draws attic air, a return undersized for the blower that was installed, or a plenum joint that was taped and nothing more. You get photographs and a written report, which is what a builder responds to. A verbal complaint is easy to deflect.
The AC drain overflowed and stained the ceiling last summer.
That is the failure mode of this housing stock and it is preventable. The primary line grows a biofilm and closes, the secondary pan takes the water, and if the float switch has also failed then the ceiling finds out first. Clearing the line and testing the switch is a short annual job. Nothing about cleaning the duct would have prevented it.
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