Whole-system duct and dryer vent check with before-and-after photos - you see exactly what came out of your vents
That "$99 whole-house special" is a bait ad - the real number appears once they are in your hallway, or the "clean" is a shop-vac at the register. We photograph the inside of your ducts before and after instead.
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AfterFast, Reliable Air Duct Repair Across Highlands
If your ductwork is leaking, crushed, or carrying mold into your living spaces, you want it fixed correctly and priced honestly. That’s exactly what we do. Linden Air Duct Cleaning has repaired duct systems throughout Highlands for years, from original 1960s ranch homes off Wade Road to newer builds near the San Jacinto River. When a Highlands homeowner calls us about a duct problem, we give them a written price before any work begins, send a named technician whose photo they receive in advance, and back the repair with our 365-Day Done Right Promise. Call (980) 447-2498 for a free estimate.
Why Linden Air Duct Cleaning Is Highlands’s Preferred Air Duct Repair Company
Highlands sits in a tough spot for ductwork. The humidity off the San Jacinto River bottomlands and the particulate drift from the Ship Channel mean ducts here fail differently than they do in Baytown or Deer Park. Our techs know what that looks like. They’ve pulled collapsed flex runs from 1970s attics, found Harvey silt packed into return trunks, and sealed plenum disconnects that had been dumping conditioned air into unconditioned space for a decade. That local familiarity means we don’t misdiagnose a Highlands home the way a generalist might.
We show up with a name and a face. Every technician is background-checked, identity-verified under the Threshold Standard, and arrives in a clean, marked uniform. Before the visit, we send you the tech’s name and photo. At your door, they show a photo ID badge. You know exactly who you’re letting in. As part of the Threshold Group family since 2004, Marcus Veale has built this operation on one idea: a homeowner should never have to guess who’s coming to the house or what the bill will be.
Our Air Duct Repair team answers calls with a live person, 24 hours a day. No voicemail loops. No callbacks at some vague later time. When your ductwork is actively leaking mold into a child’s bedroom, you need a real voice.
Duct Replacement in Highlands
Duct replacement in Highlands is often the right call when the existing runs are original 1950s through 1980s flex duct that has collapsed, torn, or separated at the plenum. We remove the failed sections, install properly sized and sealed new duct, and verify airflow at each register. In Highlands, replacement work frequently involves homes where the original installer undersized the flex runs, so we correct that when we replace.
A typical duct replacement in Highlands runs $1,800 to $3,600 depending on the number of runs, accessibility in the attic or crawl space, and whether flood-damaged sections need wet-debris extraction first. The price you’re quoted is the price you pay. Written before we start.
Post-Harvey Replacement Work
Many Highlands homes sustained interior flooding during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and low-lying trunk lines often hold residual silt and organic debris. Standard air washing won’t remove packed flood silt. We extract wet debris first, then replace or sanitize the affected sections. Skipping that step leaves mold spores ready to reactivate with the next Gulf Coast humidity spike.
Collapsed Flex Runs
Homes built between the 1950s and 1980s in Highlands often have original flex duct that has kinked, torn, or disconnected entirely at the plenum. That means you’re paying to condition your attic. We replace the compromised sections, seal every joint with mastic, and confirm static pressure before we finish.
Ductwork Installation in Highlands
Ductwork installation in Highlands applies when a homeowner is adding a room, converting a garage, or correcting a system where half the original runs were never properly sealed or sized. We install complete duct systems to match the home’s actual cooling and heating load, not a one-size-fits-all guess.
A full ductwork installation in Highlands typically runs $2,200 to $4,500 for a standard single-family home. Smaller jobs, like adding one or two supply runs, fall between $600 and $1,200. Every installation receives a written price before work starts and a written guarantee on the workmanship.
Sealing What the Builders Left Open
Highlands housing stock runs heavily to modest single-family homes built when sealing standards were loose. We routinely find gaping plenum connections and duct joints that never saw mastic or foil tape. Installation work here doubles as correction work: we don’t just add new duct, we seal what was never sealed.
Flood-Damaged Trunk Line Installation
When a trunk line has sat with Harvey silt inside it for years, replacement is often cheaper and safer than trying to remediate. We install new trunk sections, reattach the branch runs, and seal everything before testing airflow. You get a system that moves air where it should, not into the dirt under your house.
Trusted Brands We Service in Highlands
We run professional-grade equipment from Rotobrush and Nikro, and when your system needs air-quality upgrades, we work with products from Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Abatement Technologies. Highlands homeowners often ask whether we can source specific parts locally. We keep common replacement fittings, mastic, flex duct, and filtration media stocked for quick turnaround on Highlands jobs. If your system takes an Aprilaire filter cabinet or a Honeywell UV treatment, we can typically install it within the same visit as the repair.
Common Air Duct Repair Problems We See in Highlands Homes
- Crushed or disconnected flex runs from original 1950s – 1980s installs. The flex duct in these older Highlands homes was often undersized and poorly supported. After 40 or 50 years in a humid attic, it sags, kinks, and separates at the plenum, dumping conditioned air into unconditioned space.
- Post-Harvey flood silt packed into low-lying trunk lines. Homes that took water in 2017 often still have organic debris sitting in return trunks. It doesn’t dry out; it feeds mold every summer. This requires wet-debris extraction before cleaning and repair can begin.
- Hygroscopic Ship Channel particulate buildup. Industrial aerosols from the refining corridor settle inside ducts and attract moisture from the Gulf Coast humidity. That moisture promotes mold colonization even in homes that never flooded. Highlands has this problem worse than almost any other Houston-area community.
- Attic and crawl-space relative humidity above 90% in summer. The San Jacinto River bottomlands and the Gulf’s humidity push unconditioned spaces into mold-friendly territory for months at a time. Ducts running through those spaces need sealed joints and, often, added insulation.
Pricing for Air Duct Repair in Highlands, TX
Repair pricing in Highlands runs on honest ranges, not teaser numbers. A small repair, like sealing a disconnected plenum joint, runs $275 to $500. Replacing a short section of damaged flex duct runs $350 to $700 per run. A full duct replacement runs $1,800 to $3,600, and a complete ductwork installation runs $2,200 to $4,500. What affects cost: the number of runs, attic access difficulty, whether flood debris requires wet extraction, and whether mold remediation inside the ducts is necessary. We quote one written price per system before any work begins. No per-vent add-ons. No surprise invoice at the end. Call (980) 447-2498 for an exact quote, and the estimate is free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Highlands
Our crews work throughout the east Harris County industrial corridor. In addition to Air Duct Repair in Highlands, we serve homeowners in Channelview, Baytown, La Porte, and Deer Park. The Ship Channel’s particulate drift doesn’t stop at the city line, and neither do we. If you live in any of these nearby communities and need a written, guaranteed repair price, call us at (980) 447-2498.
Serving Highlands, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Highlands area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Air Duct Repair in Highlands
Highlands sits directly downwind of the Houston Ship Channel refining corridor, so ducts here collect hygroscopic petrochemical particulates that hold moisture and feed mold in ways that don’t occur in Houston’s inland suburbs. Combine that with the San Jacinto River bottomlands’ summer humidity, which pushes attic relative humidity to 90% or higher, and you get a mold environment unlike anything in Katy or Cypress. We see this daily in Highlands homes that were never flooded. If your ducts smell musty or show visible mold at the registers, call (980) 447-2498 for a free estimate on repair and source removal.
A Harvey-flooded duct system typically shows a packed layer of dark silt at the bottom of low-lying trunk lines, often mixed with organic debris and fine gray sediment. The flex duct above may look clean, but the trunk is carrying a mold reservoir. On a 1975 ranch house off Wade Road, our techs pulled a crushed section of original flex run off the plenum and found thick flood silt packed into the return trunk. We extracted the wet debris first, then sealed the disconnected joint with mastic and replaced the compromised flex before running standard source removal and negative pressure on the full system. That’s the correct order, and skipping the extraction step guarantees the mold returns. Call (980) 447-2498 for an inspection if your home took water in 2017 and the ducts were never professionally opened.
We start with a visual inspection of the plenum and accessible runs, then check register airflow and static pressure. In 1960s Highlands homes, the disconnects are usually at the plenum connection or where flex runs sag between supports. Low airflow at one register but normal at others points us to the specific run. We also use inspection cameras to see inside trunk lines without opening walls. Once we find the failed section, we give you a written repair price before we touch anything.
We seal and repair. Cleaning alone cannot fix a disconnected plenum joint or a crushed flex run. In Highlands homes, sealing is often the real fix: mastic-sealed joints, replaced flex sections, and corrected plenum connections keep conditioned air in the ducts and Ship Channel particulates out. Every repair we do includes sealing where the failure occurred, and we inspect the whole system for other unsealed joints while we’re there. A repair quote includes the sealing work, so there’s no add-on charge for it. Call (980) 447-2498 for a written quote on your system.
We run professional-grade equipment from Rotobrush and Nikro for source removal, air washing, and negative-pressure extraction. For air-quality upgrades, we install products from Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Abatement Technologies. These are trade-trusted brands built for the kind of contamination Highlands deals with: petrochemical particulate, flood silt, and mold. We don’t use consumer-grade equipment, because a Highlands home’s ducts require more than a glorified vacuum. Call (980) 447-2498 and ask us about the equipment we’d use on your home.
Written by Marcus Veale, Owner at Linden Air Duct Cleaning, serving Highlands and the surrounding communities since 2004.