The inside of a flexible duct, its ribbed wall stained brown, tapering into darkness

Air duct & dryer vent cleaning — Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton was built in the 1970s and 1980s, and so was its duct.

48,811 homes, 43.0% of them built before 1980 and a median year built of 1983. A little over four in ten are houses with their own system; a quarter are apartments in buildings of fifty units or more.

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    AC contractor CAC1822067

  • Business hours

    Sun–Thu 7 AM–8 PM · Fri 7 AM–6 PM · Sat closed

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Why Boca Raton is its own job

What a city built in the 1970s and 1980s does to its ducts.

43.0% of Boca Raton’s 48,811 homes went up before 1980, and the median year built is 1983. Most of the city is forty years old or more, and that decides what is above the ceiling.

  • Duct older than the equipment it feeds

    A home from the 1980s has usually outlived at least one air handler. The duct stayed; joints were re-taped and sections replaced around it, so what is above the ceiling rarely matches a plan.

  • Forty Florida summers above the ceiling

    That duct sits in an unconditioned attic. Decades of heat cycling stiffen a flexible sleeve and work the joints at the collar, which is where a run comes away from the plenum.

  • Two kinds of visit in one city

    41.8% of Boca Raton’s homes are detached houses, each with its own whole-house system. Another 25.9% are in buildings of fifty or more, where the job is one apartment’s closet unit and its short runs.

  • The largest stock we cover

    Boca Raton is 48,811 homes, the most of the six towns on this list — ahead of Deerfield Beach’s 46,309 and Delray Beach’s 36,997.

  • Muggy from April to December

    WeatherSpark puts Boca Raton’s muggier period at 7.8 months, from 8 April to 1 December. Humid air moving through a dusty run is how a musty smell starts when the system kicks in.

  • The dryer vent is a separate run

    It is not part of the air system and is cleaned on its own. Lint packs at every bend and at the outside hood, which is also where a flapper stops closing properly.

  • 48,811

    Homes in Boca Raton

    The most of the six towns covered. American Community Survey, 2023 five-year estimates (table B25024).

  • 82.3%

    Built before 2000

    American Community Survey, 2023 five-year estimates (table B25034).

  • 1983

    Median year built

    American Community Survey, 2023 five-year estimates (table B25035).

  • 25.9%

    In buildings of 50+ units

    Second only to Highland Beach among the six. American Community Survey, 2023 five-year estimates (table B25024).

The visit, in Boca Raton

Five steps, and what each one means above a Boca Raton ceiling.

Tap a step to see what happens on the day. The method is the same in every town; what is particular here is that nearly all of it happens in the attic.

  1. Full visual inspectionWe look before we clean.
  2. HEPA negative air pressureThe dust never enters your rooms.
  3. 360° rotary agitationThe ribs are where it hides.
  4. Sanitize & mildew defenseBuilt for a Florida attic.
  5. Airflow check & reportWe prove the result.

Step 1 of 5

Full visual inspection

We open the supply runs, the returns and the plenum before anything is touched, and inspect them visually. On a house of this age that is where a sagging run, a torn sleeve or a collar that has pulled away from the plenum shows itself — none of which is visible from a stepladder.

Step 2 of 5

HEPA negative air pressure

The system is put under negative pressure with HEPA filtration before a brush turns. In a detached house that means every supply and every return is pulling toward our equipment, so what we loosen leaves the building instead of settling on the furniture.

Step 3 of 5

360° rotary agitation

Rotating brushes and compressed-air whips work the full length of each flexible run. This step exists because of what the duct is made of: a smooth metal wall gives dust up to suction, a ribbed plastic sleeve holds on to it until something scrubs it free.

Step 4 of 5

Sanitize & mildew defense

Family- and pet-safe treatments are fogged through the system to address odors and discourage the mildew growth that an unconditioned attic and coastal humidity encourage. Nothing is sprayed into a system we have not already looked inside.

Step 5 of 5

Airflow check & report

Airflow is measured again, the coil and blower are checked, and you get before-and-after photographs with a plain-language note. If something needs repair rather than cleaning — a crushed run, a collar to re-strap — it is named there instead of being cleaned around.

Beyond Boca Raton

Boca Raton is one of six towns on this map.

Every town has its own page, because its housing stock decides what we find in the duct. Deerfield Beach’s is older than Boca Raton’s; Highland Beach’s is mostly condominium.

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Palm Beach and Broward counties, with the towns we serve picked out.

Palm Beach and Broward counties, with the towns we serve picked out.

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Housing counts are American Community Survey 2023 five-year estimates.

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What Boca Raton customers wrote afterwards.

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“careful around the house, and everything went much easier than expected”

“Really happy I booked the duct cleaning with them. The guys were friendly, careful around the house, and everything went much easier than expected.”

Luis Pinto
“strong negative air equipment to make sure no debris escaped into our living room”

“While they worked on our air vent clean the staff employed strong negative air equipment to make sure no debris escaped into our living room.”

JOSE LUIS NAVARRO RIVERA
“My air feels so much cleaner”

“You guys did a great job cleaning my ducts! Very professional! My air feels so much cleaner! Thanks again!!”

jeremy oberg

Good to know

Questions we get from Boca Raton homeowners.

Still unsure about something? Call (561) 652-6273 and a technician will talk it through — no obligation.

Ask us directly
Do you clean the whole run, or only the vents I can see?
The whole run. The registers and boots come off first, then the duct between them and the plenum, then the plenum at the air handler. In a Boca Raton house most of that sits above the ceiling, and in an apartment behind a closet door, which is why every job starts with a visual inspection: you cannot stand and look at it yourself, so we open it and photograph it before and after.
How often should ducts be cleaned in Boca Raton?
Most Florida homes do well every 3 to 5 years. Sooner if you have pets, allergies, a recent renovation, or if you have noticed a musty smell when the system starts. Because 43.0% of Boca Raton’s housing predates 1980, a first visit here often opens duct that is forty years old or more.
My house is from the 1980s. Is that duct due for replacement rather than cleaning?
Usually cleaning, and the inspection is what tells us which before anyone quotes you. Flexible duct fails in specific ways — a crushed run, a torn sleeve, a collar off the plenum, a length that has sagged out of its strapping — and those are repairs. Dust is not a failure; it is what cleaning is for.
How long does a visit take?
A typical single-family home takes 2 to 4 hours depending on the number of vents and air handlers. Dryer vent cleaning on its own is usually under an hour.
Which parts of Boca Raton do you cover?
All of it, plus the five other towns on the map further up this page. Boca Raton is the largest housing stock of the six towns we cover, so no part of the city is treated as out of the way. If you are not sure your address falls inside the city line, call (561) 652-6273 and read it to us.
Are the products safe for kids and pets?
Yes. The treatments are low-odor and family- and pet-safe, and everything we loosen is held under negative pressure, so it travels into our equipment rather than into the room. Rooms are ready to use as soon as we finish.
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Tell us what the air is doing. We will open it and look.

A musty smell when the system starts, a room that never cools, a dryer that needs two cycles — those are the three calls we get most. Boca Raton visits are booked on the same number as every other town.

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