About Us

Cape Coral sits on Southwest Florida's Lee and Charlotte County coast, where dew points stay in the 70s for half the year, annual rainfall runs around 50–55 inches concentrated in summer, and the cooling season is long enough that most systems run nearly continuously from March into November. That matters for duct work. Attic duct in a humid climate means cold supply air inside hot, wet air, so condensation on poorly sealed connections, sweating boots at ceiling registers, and damp insulation jackets are routine. The housing here splits sharply by era. Mid-century block ranches from the 1950s–70s, the 1980s–90s canal and golf-course expansion, and 1990s–2000s master-planned tracts, and each used different duct material. Older homes got rigid sheet metal and fiberglass ductboard trunks in attics. Newer ones have insulated flex duct hung above the ceiling in vented attics that hit 120–140°F in summer. We open the attic hatch before we quote anything, because what's up there decides the job.

The calls we get most: pollen and dust that never seems to settle, a musty smell when the air handler kicks on, black specks around supply registers, and ducts full of drywall and sanding dust from post-Ian rebuilding in systems that were running during repairs. Pollen load here runs heavy and long — live and laurel oak catkins February through April, slash pine, bahia and Bermuda grass through the wet season, ragweed in fall. Add sugar-sand soil, construction dust from continuous new building, lovebug season twice a year, and sea-salt aerosol near the water. On site we run a truck-mounted vacuum, pull the trunk under negative pressure, seal every register so the suction stays where we want it, then work rotary and push-pull brushes through the branch runs and back to the plenum. We service Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, and American Standard equipment, and we handle sheet metal, ductboard, and flex. If we find loose connections or wet insulation while we're in there, we'll tell you, and duct sealing usually does more for comfort and humidity than cleaning alone. A dirty blower wheel or evaporator often explains the smell, which is a coil cleaning job, not a duct job.

Plenty of homes don't need this yet. If your ducts are three years old, the filter has been changed on schedule, and the attic connections are tight, we'll say so and leave. Sometimes the fix is a better filter on a shorter schedule and nothing more. On cost: the number moves with how much duct is up there and how it's laid out, whether it's flex or rigid, how many supply runs and return drops we have to open and brush, how tight the attic access is in a block ranch versus a newer tract home, and whether what we find is dry dust or damp, contaminated insulation that needs replacement instead of cleaning. We walk the system with you first and show you what we're seeing before anything gets decided.