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Interior corner of a fiberglass duct board plenum, clean after service.
A plenum seen from inside: every branch in the house exits through an opening like this, and each opening is a joint that can let go.

Delray Beach, FL · duct repair

Duct repair for the bedroom that stays warm. Nine times in ten, it's the duct.

When a run pulls apart, the cold air lands in the attic instead of the room. We follow the branch that feeds that room, tell you exactly what failed, and reattach it, re-strap it or seal it.

  • One room stuck warm while the others are fine
  • A grille that barely puts out any air
  • A vent that whistles, rumbles or rattles
  • Flex duct drooping in the attic
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  • Florida licensed

    AC contractor CAC1822067

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  • Same or next day

    Most weeks, a slot comes up fast

What a fix changes

What a repair does that a cleaning never will.

A cleaning moves dust; a repair moves air. When one room is off and all the others are fine, the cause is nearly always a joint that has split, a run that has pulled loose, or a length of flex with nothing holding it up anymore.

  • Cold air reaches the room again

    A branch that has slipped off its collar keeps running and keeps costing you. It just blows into the attic. Reattach it and that grille starts working like the rest of the house.

  • No more air-conditioning the attic

    An open joint leaks precisely the air you've already paid to cool. It spills into the attic, and the room it was headed for stays warm.

  • Balanced pressure again

    Flex squashed against a joist or bent around a tight corner chokes one branch and throws off all the others. Freeing it returns the system to the static pressure it was designed for.

  • Tape the attic heat defeated

    Foil tape ages badly in a Florida attic, whatever the label promises. Where the glue has given up and the joint has opened, we rebuild the connection instead of taping over it again.

  • Drooping flex strapped back up

    Flex that has slipped out of its straps sags into a low belly the air must climb out of. We hang it back on the framing with real support, so the same room doesn't turn warm again next summer.

  • You hear exactly what failed

    Never just "bad ducts". A collar that slipped off, a boot loose from the studs, a zone damper frozen shut. We name each one before fixing anything.

The visit, in order

From the warm room to the finished seal.

Open any step. On a repair, finding the fault eats most of the time; once the run is open, fixing it is usually the fast part.

  1. It starts with the roomThe symptom tells us where to look.
  2. We follow the branchFrom that grille back to the plenum.
  3. We name the faultBefore opening anything more.
  4. The fixReattached, re-strapped, re-anchored or sealed.
  5. We test it with the AC onAt the grille that made you call.

Step 1 of 5

It starts with the room

Which room, and is it warm all day or only from mid-afternoon? Does the grille blow weakly or hardly at all? Did it begin after roof work, new insulation or a new unit? Each answer points to a different stretch of duct, and that decides where the technician enters the attic first instead of cutting into ceilings at random.

Step 2 of 5

We follow the branch

We trace the run end to end: the boot behind the grille, the collar it clamps onto, the flex in between, the straps holding it up and the takeoff where it leaves the plenum. One reviewer says the crew went out of their way to fix a roof vent cap after a bad storm. The problem is nearly always at one of those joints, not halfway along a tube.

Step 3 of 5

We name the fault

You hear what's wrong in plain terms: a collar that has pulled loose, tape split open at the plenum, a flattened length of flex, a boot that's no longer anchored, a zone damper that won't move. You hear it before anything is priced or repaired.

Step 4 of 5

The fix

That depends on what turned up. A run goes back on its collar, fastened and sealed. A drooping stretch is strapped up to the framing again. A loose boot is fixed back to the studs with its screws snugged down.

Step 5 of 5

We test it with the AC on

We run the system and check that grille before packing up, because a repair nobody has felt at the vent isn't finished. If the real problem is the equipment rather than the duct (a damper, a blower, a bearing), we tell you so straight, instead of hiding it under sealant.

  • 78.3%

    Share of Delray Beach homes built before 2000

    ACS 2023 five-year estimates, tables B25034 / B25024 / B25003 / B25077.

  • 64.0%

    Of Ocean Ridge homes, built before 1980

    Same ACS tables. An older house means older duct, older straps and older tape.

  • 5

    Towns the crew covers

    Every one has a page with its own housing figures.

Things you can check, not claimed

Why this work is lawful, and where you can look that up.

  • Florida licence CAC1822067

    A Certified Air Conditioning Contractor licence, active until 31 August 2028. Under Florida statute 489.105 its scope covers repairing and replacing ductwork.

    Look it up by number at myfloridalicense.com.

  • The company holds it, not claimed personally

    The licence belongs to Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC, the company our Delray Beach crew works under, with Keith C Tatman as qualifier. Nobody on this site is presented as the licensee.

    Sunbiz L21000391856; Express Air Duct Cleaning Delray Beach is a registered name of it.

  • NADCA member since July 2024

    Since 22 July 2024, Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC has held membership in the National Air Duct Cleaners Association.

    Find it on nadca.com, under Find a Professional.

  • We tell you what failed

    Each fault gets named before we fix it: a collar that slipped off, tape that split, a boot loose from the studs, a damper that won't move.

    Your written note lists every fault we found, one at a time.

  • You get the quote before we start

    Nobody can price a repair over the phone, so we quote it at your home once the technician has found the fault and seen what fixing it takes, and before any work begins.

    One reviewer calls the rates very reasonable.

  • Reviews, shown as a selection

    The reviews on this site are a rotating selection of our newest five-star ratings, not a full transcript. The whole profile (every rating, not only the ones we show) is one click away on Google, through the link on our reviews page.

    Read every rating on the Google profile itself, through the link on our reviews page.

  • 100% satisfaction promise

    If something isn't right, we come back and put it right. This is our own promise, not an outside badge, and it is the only line on this grid you can't look up.

Other jobs we do

Everything else people call the crew for.

Compare all five services

  1. Air duct cleaning

    Grilles taken down, then each run brushed and vacuumed from the room to the air handler, plenum and blower wheel too, not just what shows at the vent.

  2. Dryer vent cleaning

    Lint cleared from the hose behind the drum out to the exterior cap, with the outside flap tested before we go.

  3. Duct repair

    You're on this page: split joints sealed, loose runs reattached and damaged duct fixed so the cooled air gets to every room.

Towns we cover

Duct repair in Delray Beach and four nearby towns.

What we run into depends on the age of the house and where its air handler lives. An attic run in a 1960s Ocean Ridge home is a different fix from a closet air handler in a Highland Beach tower. Every town has its own page.

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Palm Beach County, with the five towns we cover highlighted.

Palm Beach County, with the five towns we cover highlighted.

Green: on our route

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Home counts come from the American Community Survey, 2023 five-year estimates.

Worth knowing first

Questions about the room that won't cool.

Question not here? Ring (561) 652-1432 and describe the room; a technician will tell you what it sounds like before anything gets booked.

Send us your question
One bedroom never cools down. Could it be the ducts?
That's where to look first. A system without enough capacity leaves the whole house uncomfortable; one room trailing the rest points to the branch that feeds it, and in most homes we visit that branch needs a repair, not a replacement.
Can you repair my ducts, or do they all need replacing?
In most homes we're called to, a repair does it: a run reattached, new support, a joint rebuilt, a boot re-anchored. Replacement is another discussion, meant for whole systems that are undersized, too contaminated to clean, or so brittle that each joint fails as soon as the last one is fixed. Once the run is open we'll tell you which case you have, and we'll say so when the honest answer is the cheaper one.
How do you find a leak in duct that runs through the attic?
We follow the branch instead of guessing, and most faults sit at a joint rather than halfway along a tube: a collar, a boot, a takeoff, or a strap that let a run drop. One reviewer on this profile says the crew went out of their way to fix a roof vent cap after a bad storm.
Does duct repair need to be licensed work in Florida?
In Florida, repairing and replacing ductwork comes under a Certified Air Conditioning Contractor licence (statute 489.105). This work is done under licence CAC1822067, held by Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC, the company our Delray Beach crew works under, with Keith C Tatman as qualifier, active until 31 August 2028. Check the number yourself at myfloridalicense.com; we'd rather you did than simply trust us.
Are duct sealing and duct repair the same thing?
Sealing is one part a repair may include, not a separate service. When a joint has opened because its tape or mastic gave out, sealing it properly is the fix. But a run that has come apart must be reattached and fastened before sealing, and a drooping run must be hung back up first. Sealing an unsupported duct only puts a tidy finish on a problem that will return.
Why does the tape in my attic keep coming loose?
A Florida attic is a brutal place for adhesive. Summer heat up there climbs far past anything the rooms below see, the humidity swings every day, and the duct shifts a little each time the blower starts and stops. Tape that was fine the day it was applied fails years before the duct does. That's why an opened joint gets rebuilt and fastened instead of just taped over again.
Should the ducts be cleaned as well as repaired?
Not by default, and we won't sell you both because you asked about one. They fix different problems: repair is for air that isn't arriving, cleaning is for what that air carries. When a run has been open to the attic for some time the two often go together, since unfiltered attic air has been pulled into the system all along. If the technician finds that, you'll be told and shown why, and if not, you'll hear that as well.
How much does a duct repair cost?
We can't print an honest number here, because a repair is priced by what's broken, not by the size of the house. Re-anchoring one boot and re-strapping a flex run is a different job from rebuilding a plenum takeoff. What we can promise is the sequence: the technician finds the fault, explains it, quotes the work at your home, and begins only after you've agreed to the price.
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Which room is giving you trouble?

Tell us which room, and whether it's warm all day or only from mid-afternoon. That single answer covers most of what we need before we arrive.

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