New-Construction Duct Dust-Out in North Richland Hills

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.

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.

You are likely in better shape than a neighbor with twenty-year-old flex, which is not what most people expect to hear. Sheet metal cleans genuinely well. What we check on those systems instead is the insulation on the outside of the trunk, the tape at the joints, and whether a later equipment change left a plenum that does not match the unit now bolted to it.

Have the material identified before agreeing to anything, because age means two different things in this city. If the runs are flex and the liner is torn, replacement is the honest call and we would say the same. If it is sound sheet metal, replacement is an expensive answer to a cleaning question. Photographs settle which one you have in about twenty minutes.

Additions here often got their own small system rather than an extension of the original, so you have two coils, two filters and usually only one of them being maintained. We inspect and price them separately. The added system is normally newer and cleaner and does not need the same work, and bundling them into one number hides that.