Duct installation — Boca Raton, FL
The tonnage is not the problem. The path the air takes is.
Duct that is too small starves the system. Duct that is too big lets the air slow down before it arrives. And a run that takes four turns to reach a far bedroom will never cool it, whatever size unit you put in front of it.
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AC contractor CAC1822067
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Why sizing decides it
Your ducts have a size, and somebody chose it.
Most homeowners have never been told their ductwork has a size at all. It does: a width, a length and a number of turns, picked once for the house as it stood then. Everything below is what happens when that choice was wrong, and none of it is fixed by a bigger air conditioner.
Too small, and the system starves
A blower can only push air down the duct it is given. A run narrower than the air it must carry raises the pressure the system works against, so the unit spends its life fighting the house rather than cooling it.
Too big, and the air slows down
Air spread across a duct wider than it needs loses its speed. It arrives at the register with nothing behind it, drifts along the ceiling, and never reaches the far side of the room you are standing in.
Every turn costs you something
A run that leaves the plenum and takes four turns to reach a back bedroom has given up pressure at each one. That room will not cool whatever tonnage sits outside, because the air is not getting there.
A layout nobody actually chose
Most duct follows whatever path was quickest for whoever built the house, then gets extended for a garage conversion or a new bathroom. Replacing it is the one moment it can be routed deliberately.
Flex duct does not stay where it was put
Flexible duct is a plastic sleeve over a wire spiral, and in an attic it sags between straps, kinks at a turn and crushes against a joist. A sag is a restriction from the day it happens.
A bigger unit makes it worse, not better
More air pushed down the same undersized run means more pressure, more noise, and the same disappointing draught at the register. The duct decides what the house actually receives.
The two materials
What a run is actually made of.
Replacing ductwork means choosing what the new run is built from, and the two answers look nothing like each other from the inside. Flexible duct is quick to install and forgiving of a crooked path. Rigid metal holds its shape, its size and its direction, and has to be made to fit.
How the job is decided
Five decisions, before anything is cut.
Tap any step. Replacing ductwork is mostly a sequence of decisions about size and path — the cutting is the easy part, and it comes last.
- We look before anyone says replaceThe cheapest answer is very often the right one.
- The house is measured, not the old ductWhat is there is evidence, not a specification.
- The path is chosen before the size isLength and turns cost more than most people expect.
- The estimate, in your home, before any workPriced after we have looked, never before.
- The work, then the walk-throughYou see the result before we pack up.
Step 1 of 5
We look before anyone says replace
A room that never cools is not by itself a case for new ductwork. Buildup along the run, a torn joint at a collar, a length that has sagged in the attic, a damper that has stopped moving — all produce the same complaint, and all are cheaper. One review on the profile describes exactly that: an AC unit cutting out early turned out to be a ventilation blockage, fixed on the spot.
Step 2 of 5
The house is measured, not the old duct
How many rooms the system has to reach, how far each one is, where the air handler sits, and what the attic framing allows. The duct already in the ceiling tells us what somebody did once; it does not tell us what the house needs. Copying it is how a bad layout gets rebuilt in new material and disappoints its owner a second time.
Step 3 of 5
The path is chosen before the size is
A short straight run and a long one with four elbows are not the same duct at the same width. So the route is settled first — where the trunk goes, which rooms branch off it, where the returns sit — and the sizes follow from it. This is the step that decides whether the bedroom at the end of the house is ever comfortable.
Step 4 of 5
The estimate, in your home, before any work
Cost depends on the size of the house, how much of the run is being replaced and what the attic allows, so the figure is given on site once a technician has seen it, and before anything starts, with no obligation to book on the day. Reviewers on the profile describe the cost as reasonable for the service.
Step 5 of 5
The work, then the walk-through
The old run comes out and the new one goes in, the boots and registers are refitted, and then someone over eighteen walks the result with the technician: what was replaced, what was left, and anything found on the way that is worth knowing about. The floor is swept and the furniture goes back where it was before we leave.
- 5.0
Rating on the Boca Raton Google profile
- 42%
Of Boca Raton's homes are detached
- 82.3%
Of them were built before 2000
- 48,811
Homes in Boca Raton
Where we do this work
New ductwork across six towns.
What the attic allows changes from town to town and from decade to decade, and so does the layout we find when we open a ceiling. Each town has its own page, with the housing numbers behind it.
Palm Beach and Broward counties, with the towns we serve picked out.
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- Boca Raton 48,811 homes
- Coconut Creek 27,155 homes
- Deerfield Beach 46,309 homes
- Delray Beach 36,997 homes
- Highland Beach 4,641 homes
- Parkland 11,316 homes
- Boca RatonNamed in 10 of the crew's Google posts
- Deerfield BeachNamed in 5 of the crew's Google posts
- Delray BeachNamed in 4 of the crew's Google posts
- Highland BeachNamed in 4 of the crew's Google posts
- Coconut CreekNamed in 3 of the crew's Google posts
- ParklandNamed in 2 of the crew's Google posts
The rest of the work
What else this crew is called out for.
Air Duct Cleaning
Every supply and return opened and photographed, then brushed and vacuumed from the register to the plenum and the blower wheel.
Dryer Vent Cleaning
The exhaust line cleared from the connector behind the drum to the cap outside, and the termination flapper checked before we leave.
Chimney Cleaning
Clear soot and buildup so your fireplace can vent safely and perform efficiently.
Duct Repair
Seal leaks, reconnect loose runs and repair damaged ductwork so conditioned air reaches every room.
Duct Installation
This page: new ductwork routed and sized for the house it serves, rather than copied from the run that is already there.
Checkable, not claimed
What we can prove, and where you can check it.
Florida licence CAC1822067
A Certified Air Conditioning Contractor licence held under the company's name, active to 31 August 2028. It is a state licence, searchable by its number.
Searchable by number at myfloridalicense.com.
NADCA member since July 2024
Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC, the company this Boca Raton crew trades under, has been a member of the National Air Duct Cleaners Association since 22 July 2024.
Listed on nadca.com under Find a Professional.
Every Google review, all five stars
5.0 from 42 reviews on the Boca Raton profile, every one of them five stars. All of them sit on our reviews page.
Counted from the saved profile, never derived from the average.
The quote comes before the work
Cost depends on the house, so it is quoted on site once the technician has looked and before anything starts, with no obligation to book on the day.
Reviewers describe the cost as reasonable for the service.
100% satisfaction promise
If something is not right, we come back and make it right. It is our own promise rather than a third party's badge — the one line on this grid you cannot look up.
The reviews nearest this work.
“Our AC unit was cutting out early”
“Our AC unit was cutting out early but the technician tracked it down to a ventilation blockage and was able to fix issue on the spot.”
“realigned a misaligned wall offset box behind the unit”
“Technician mended our ripped flexible duct to remedy issue permanently. Great repair work. He checked the line, realigned a misaligned wall offset box behind the unit and was able to correct the problem in less than 30 minutes. Really cool diagnostics!”
“Technician mended our ripped flexible duct”
“Technician mended our ripped flexible duct to remedy issue permanently. Great repair work. He checked the line, realigned a misaligned wall offset box behind the unit and was able to correct the problem in less than 30 minutes. Really cool diagnostics!”
“Condensation that had been accumulating around our exhaust vent was halted”
“Condensation that had been accumulating around our exhaust vent was halted by their assistance.”
“They removed a damaged outer flap and installed wire mesh”
“They removed a damaged outer flap and installed wire mesh to remedy problem with outdoor bug invasion.”
“you can tell the system isn't straining anymore”
“Our hvac system runs so much smoother now after the air vent clean. you can tell the system isn't straining anymore.”
Before you call
The questions people ask about new ductwork.
Not answered here? Call (561) 652-6273 and a technician will talk it through before anyone books anything.
Ask us directlyHow do I know whether my ducts need replacing or just cleaning?
What does it mean for a duct to be the wrong size?
My air conditioning company says I need a bigger unit. Do I?
Do you have reviews from duct replacement jobs?
Will new ductwork make the house cooler?
What does new ductwork cost?
Which towns do you do this in?
Tell us which room never works.
That one answer is usually enough to say whether you are looking at a cleaning, a repair or a run that needs replacing — and we will tell you which before anyone books anything.