Register Add or Relocate in Manor
For the room that never cools — measured first, cut second.
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.
- Static pressure and delivered airflow measured before anything is cut
- New supply run, new return, or relocated register sized to the room
- Takeoff sealed with mastic, run supported and insulated
- Airflow re-measured at the new register and at the rooms it draws from
- A straight answer if your system has no capacity left to give
- From
- $449
- On site
- 3–5 hours
- 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.
03Register Add or Relocate — in this stock
Leakage in a house that should not have any.
New does not mean sealed. Production-built systems routinely have unsealed takeoffs, boots that were never mastic-sealed to the drywall, and flex that was pulled tight over a corner. It is quick, cheap work on a young house, and doing it before the first cleaning means you are not paying to clean air that is escaping anyway.
Ask us anything about this on the phone — a person answers during opening hours.
All register add or relocate questions04Book 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.
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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