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A duct-board plenum interior, its walls heavily stained around a round duct collar.
Inside the plenum: each branch of your system starts at a cutout like this one, which makes every cutout a joint that can come loose.

Boca Raton, FL · ductwork repair

The room the AC seems to skip. Its duct is the usual culprit.

In a Boca Raton house, a flex run that slips off its collar cools the attic rather than the bedroom. In a condo, the runs from a closet air handler are usually shorter, and they can let go at the same kind of joint. We follow that one branch, name its fault, then reconnect, re-hang or reseal it.

  • Every room comfortable except one
  • A register that barely breathes out
  • Whistling, rattling or roaring at a grille
  • A visible droop in the attic flex
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  • Florida licensed

    AC contractor CAC1822067

  • 5.0 · 65 reviews on GoogleAs of See all reviews on Google

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  • Same or next day

    Booked around your week

Airflow, not dust

Cleaning can’t reconnect a duct. Repair can.

A cleaning takes dust out; a repair puts the air back where it belongs. If one room lags while the rest of the house or condo is comfortable, the cause is nearly always an opened joint, a run pulled apart, or flex duct that nothing holds up anymore.

  • Cool air reaches the bedroom

    A branch that has dropped off its collar keeps carrying air you pay to cool; it just empties into the attic. Refit it, and that register finally blows like every other one in your home.

  • No more paying to chill the attic

    Whatever escapes an open seam is air you already paid to cool. One reviewer on this profile had duct tape failures put right with thick foil sealant, a fix they call permanent.

  • Balanced pressure again

    Flex pinched against a joist, or folded through a tight bend, chokes its own branch and throws the others out of balance. Let it run free and your system returns to the static pressure its design calls for.

  • When attic heat beats the tape

    A Florida attic is harder on foil tape than any product sheet lets on. Once the glue lets go and a seam opens, the joint itself gets rebuilt instead of a second layer of tape going on top.

  • Sagging flex, hung back up

    When flex slips out of its straps it sags into a low belly that the air must climb back out of. It is hung from the framing again, properly supported, so the same room doesn’t slide back to warm next summer.

  • A fault with a name

    No vague verdict that your ducts are bad. You hear which part failed: a collar off, a zone damper stuck closed, a boot pulled loose from the studs. Reviews on this profile describe, one at a time, the specific faults the crew found.

How a repair visit runs

Symptom to sealed joint in five steps.

Tap a step to open it. Locating the fault takes most of the time; once the branch is exposed, the fix itself is often the shorter part of the visit.

  1. Starting at the problem roomWhat it does tells us where to look.
  2. Following the branch backGrille to plenum, joint by joint.
  3. You hear what failedNothing else gets opened before that.
  4. The fixBack on its collar, strapped, anchored or sealed.
  5. Testing it with the air onAt the grille that made you call.

Step 1 of 5

Starting at the problem room

First come the questions. Which room is it, and is it warm the whole day or only once the afternoon arrives? Is the airflow weak, or close to none? Did it begin after roofing work, new insulation or a replacement unit? Each answer points to a different stretch of duct. In a house, it tells the technician which part of the attic to enter first; in a condo, where to start along the usually short run from the closet air handler. Nobody cuts into a ceiling on a hunch.

Step 2 of 5

Following the branch back

Each part of the run is inspected in turn: the boot just behind the register, the collar where the flex clamps on, the flex itself, the straps that carry it, and the takeoff at the plenum. Faults tend to sit at those connection points and seldom halfway along. On this profile, one customer writes that the technician checked the line and realigned a wall offset box that sat misaligned behind the unit.

Step 3 of 5

You hear what failed

The diagnosis comes in plain trade terms: a collar pulled loose, tape split open at the plenum, a flattened stretch of flex, a boot no longer fastened down, a zone damper that won’t move. One customer on this profile had an AC unit shutting off early, and the technician traced it to a blockage in the ventilation.

Step 4 of 5

The fix

The work follows the diagnosis. A detached run is pushed back onto its collar, fastened, then sealed. A drooping stretch is strapped to the framing again, and a torn flex duct gets mended; one reviewer says that mend fixed their problem for good. A boot that has worked loose is fastened back to the studs with its screws snugged up, which another review puts as a wobbly register boot made secure inside the wall cavity.

Step 5 of 5

Testing it with the air on

Before anything is packed away, the system runs and someone checks that grille by hand; a repair nobody has felt at the register isn’t finished. And if the true cause is in the equipment (a bearing, the blower, a damper) rather than the duct, you are told so straight, not handed a coat of sealant over it.

  • 82.3%

    Of Boca Raton homes predate the year 2000

    Tables B25034, B25024, B25003 and B25077 of the American Community Survey, 2023 five-year estimates.

  • 60.5%

    In Deerfield Beach, built pre-1980

    From the same Census tables. The older the building, the older its duct, straps and tape tend to be.

  • 6

    Towns this crew serves

    Every town gets a page with its own Census housing figures.

Proof, not claims

The paperwork behind this repair, and where to look it up.

  • CAC1822067: a Florida license

    Florida statute 489.105 puts repairing and replacing ductwork within the scope of this license, which is in the Certified Air Conditioning Contractor category and stays valid through 31 August 2028.

    Type the number into myfloridalicense.com to look it up.

  • Company-held, not claimed by one person

    Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC holds the license, and this Boca Raton crew works under that company’s name; Keith C Tatman is its qualifier. Nobody on this site is presented as the licensee personally.

    Sunbiz filing L21000391856, which holds Express Air Duct Cleaning Boca Raton as a registered name.

  • A NADCA member from July 2024

    Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC is a National Air Duct Cleaners Association member, with membership dating from 22 July 2024.

    Find it on nadca.com through the Find a Professional search.

  • Named before it is fixed

    Before any repair begins, you hear exactly which part failed: a collar off its fitting, tape split open, a damper that won’t budge, a boot pulled away from the studs.

    Reviewers on the profile name, one by one, what the crew found.

  • Quoted first, then repaired

    Nobody can price a repair over the phone. Your quote comes to you at home, after the technician has located the fault and sized up the fix, and before any work begins.

    More than one reviewer calls the price reasonable for the work.

  • 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

    Should anything be off after we leave, we return and fix it. That pledge is ours alone, not a badge from an outside body, which makes it the only item here with nothing to look up.

Other work we do

Other reasons this crew gets called.

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  1. Air duct cleaning

    All supplies and returns opened up, then each run brushed and vacuumed end to end, plenum and blower wheel too, not just the first six inches visible behind the grille.

  2. Dryer vent cleaning

    Your dryer line cleared end to end, from the connector at the back of the drum out to the exterior cap, with the flapper at the exit tested before we go.

  3. Duct repair

    You’re reading it: leaks sealed, loose runs put back together and damaged ductwork mended, so conditioned air gets to each room of the house or condo.

Towns we repair ducts in

Boca Raton and five towns across two counties.

Much of Boca Raton lives in one of two kinds of home: a detached house (41.8% of homes), usually with its air handler and long flex runs in the attic, or a condo or apartment in a building of fifty-plus units (25.9%), usually with a closet unit and short runs. Age matters too: attic ductwork in a Deerfield Beach house from the 1970s is one kind of repair, and a plenum on a slab-on-grade floor in Parkland is another. Each of the six has a page of its own.

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Palm Beach County and Broward County, with our six towns marked in green.

Palm Beach County and Broward County, with our six towns marked in green.

Green: we serve it

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Does our route reach your town?

Home counts: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2023 five-year estimates.

Straight from Google

Repairs, in the customers’ own words.

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A selection of our 5-star reviews on Google.

  • Nicholas A.

    Had the staff conduct an air vent clean and dust bunnies stopped stacking up on our ceiling fan blades.

  • ema V.

    If someone asked me who to use for air duct cleaning, ld send them to this company. We had a really good experience.

  • jonah C.

    Really appreciated the care they put into cleaning our air ducts. The guys were respectful, helpful, and did a really nice job.

Asked on the phone

What people ask about the room that won’t cool.

If yours isn’t here, phone (561) 652-6273 and tell us what the room is doing. A technician gives you a first opinion before any appointment gets made.

Send my question
My house or condo has one room that stays warm. Is it the ducts?
Check the ducts first. Equipment that is too small leaves every room uncomfortable; one room trailing the others points to the branch that serves it. In most homes we are called to, that branch needs repairing, not replacing.
Will a repair do, or does all the ductwork need replacing?
In most homes we visit, a repair covers it: a run reconnected, fresh support, one joint rebuilt, a boot fastened down again. Replacement is a separate discussion, meant for systems that are undersized throughout, too contaminated to clean, or so brittle that fixing one joint only moves the failure to the next. With the run opened up, you will know which case you have, and when the cheaper option is the honest one, we say so.
How do you locate a leak in duct you can’t see, up in the attic?
We trace the branch instead of guessing. Most leaks turn up where two parts meet, not halfway along the tube: at a takeoff, a collar, a boot, or a strap that let the run sag. One customer on this profile describes that approach in action, with the technician checking the line and bringing a misaligned wall offset box behind the unit back into line.
Does duct repair in Florida count as licensed work?
Yes. Under Florida statute 489.105, repairing or replacing ductwork is part of what the Certified Air Conditioning Contractor license covers. The work described here runs under license CAC1822067, which belongs to Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC. That is the company whose name this Boca Raton crew works under; Keith C Tatman is its qualifier, and the license stays valid through 31 August 2028. Search the number at myfloridalicense.com yourself; we prefer that to asking you to take our word.
Isn’t sealing ducts just another word for repairing them?
Sealing is one part a repair may include, not a service on its own. If its tape or mastic gave out and a seam opened, closing that seam properly is the whole repair. A run that has separated, though, has to be reconnected and fastened before any sealing, and a sagging one has to be hung back up first. Seal a duct that nothing is holding up and you have only tidied a problem that is coming back.
Why does the tape up in my attic keep letting go?
Few places are harder on an adhesive than a Florida attic. In summer it gets far hotter up there than anywhere in the living space, the humidity rises and falls every day, and WeatherSpark puts Boca Raton’s muggy season at 7.8 months, April 8 to December 1. The duct also flexes slightly each time the blower cycles on and off. Tape that held when first applied quits years ahead of the duct, so an opened joint gets rebuilt and fastened, not just taped a second time.
Should I get the ducts cleaned while you repair them?
Not by default, and calling about one won’t get you sold both. They fix different problems: repair deals with air that fails to arrive, cleaning with what that air carries. The two do often go together when a run has sat open to the attic for some time, since the system has been drawing in unfiltered attic air all along. If the technician sees that, you’ll hear it and be shown the evidence; if not, you’ll hear that as well.
How much will my duct repair cost?
No honest figure can go on this page, because the price follows the fault, not how many square feet the house or condo has. Fastening one boot or re-hanging a length of flex is a different job from rebuilding a takeoff at the plenum. The sequence, though, never changes: the technician locates the fault, explains it, quotes the job in your home, and begins only after you accept that quote.
Set up the repair

Which room is giving you trouble?

Name the room, say whether it stays warm the whole day or only after midday, and tell us if it’s a house or a condo. Those answers cover most of what the technician needs before arriving.

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