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 Tequesta
Air duct repair in Tequesta typically runs $340 – $890 for most flex duct and plenum work, with full duct replacement on a larger canal-front home landing between $2,400 and $5,800. Most repair jobs are completed in one visit, and we schedule Tequesta work every weekday. We know the houses here, the humidity that attacks them, and the specific failure patterns this water-on-all-sides geography creates. Call (980) 447-2498 and we’ll give you a written price before any work begins.
Key Takeaways
- Typical repair work in Tequesta runs $340 – $890; full replacement ranges $2,400 – $5,800 depending on home size and duct condition.
- Tequesta’s canal-and-river geography creates mold re-contamination cycles in 12 – 18 months, shorter than inland Palm Beach County.
- The tech arriving at your door has a name and photo sent to you beforehand, then shows a photo ID badge at the door.
- Every repair carries a 365-day written guarantee with a free second visit if the repair fails.
Why Linden Air Duct Cleaning Is Tequesta’s Preferred Air Duct Repair Company
Homeowners in Tequesta call us because we don’t treat a canal-front house the same as a house in Palm Beach Gardens. We shouldn’t. Our Air Duct Repair team has pulled apart enough return plenums along County Line Road, Riverside Drive, and the finger canals to know what happens when fiberglass liners sit in 80% humidity for 40 years. The failure patterns here are predictable: delaminating liner material, collapsed flex runs at sag points, and boots that re-colonize with mold within 18 months even after a thorough cleaning.
Every technician we send into a Tequesta home is background-checked, identity-verified, and arrives in a marked uniform with a photo ID badge shown at the door. You get that tech’s name and photo before the visit, so you’re never opening the door to a stranger. That’s the Threshold Standard, and it’s been how we’ve operated since 2004 as part of the Threshold Group family.
We answer our phones with a live person 24 hours a day. When you call about a musty smell coming from a register on the second floor of a riverfront home off Tequesta Drive, you talk to a human who can schedule the visit and tell you what to expect. No voicemail loops, no callbacks three hours later.
Duct Replacement in Tequesta
Duct replacement is the job we recommend most often in Tequesta’s 1960s – 1980s concrete-slab homes, where original flex duct and fiberglass-lined metal plenums have been absorbing canal air for decades. This is not a patch job; it means pulling the failed material, installing new duct runs sized to your system, sealing every joint, and testing airflow at each register so you don’t have one cold bedroom and one hot den.
For a typical 1,800 – 2,400 square foot Tequesta home, whole-system duct replacement runs $3,200 – $5,800. Smaller partial replacements, like swapping out two failed flex runs and re-lining one return plenum, generally land between $850 and $1,800. We write the price down before we start. Whatever the number is, it’s the number you pay. No adjustments at the end because a run was “longer than expected.”
Failed Flex Runs and Sag Points
Flex duct sags. Add Tequesta’s humidity and the weight of accumulated moisture in the liner, and sag turns into collapse faster than any other part of Palm Beach County. When a run collapses, the register it feeds dies slowly. You notice a room that never cools properly, then you notice the system running longer, then the electric bill climbs.
Re-Lining Versus Replacing Plenums
A metal plenum with failing fiberglass liner doesn’t always need to go to the scrap heap. If the metal is structurally sound, we can strip the saturated liner, clean and seal the interior under negative pressure, and re-line to NADCA standards. That saves a Tequesta homeowner $400 – $700 versus full plenum replacement, and it’s a repair we perform regularly on homes along the Loxahatchee River.
Ductwork Installation in Tequesta
Ductwork installation is a full-system job: new supply and return runs, properly sized trunk lines, sealed plenums, and damper adjustments that give you even airflow across every room in the house. In Tequesta, where homes sit between the Loxahatchee River and the Intracoastal, we size and route ductwork with the assumption that it will live in a near-constant high-humidity environment for its entire service life.
Whole-home ductwork installation in Tequesta runs $3,800 – $5,800 for typical single-family slab homes. New construction or major renovation work with complex routing through concrete-slab chases can push higher, but we cap that conversation with a written quote that doesn’t change once work starts.
Getting the Sizing Right
Most original duct systems in Tequesta’s older homes were sized for the equipment that shipped with the house in 1975, not for the system you’re running now. When we install new ductwork, we do a room-by-room load calculation before we cut a single length of flex. An oversized run is just a bigger place for humid air to sit still.
Sealing for Coastal Air
Every seam on a new installation gets mastic-sealed, not just taped. Duct tape, we should note, is not what we use; it dries out and peels within a few South Florida summers. Mastic stays flexible and keeps the humid outdoor air from getting pulled into a conditioned supply run through a bad seam.
Trusted Brands We Service in Tequesta
Tequesta homes run a mix of original and retrofit equipment, and we service all of it. Our technicians work daily with Rotobrush and Nikro inspection and cleaning systems, and we source air-quality components from Abatement Technologies and Guardsman where a job calls for filtration or sanitization that actually addresses the problem. We keep a rolling stock of common duct fittings, flex, mastic, and plenum liner on our trucks, so most Tequesta repair jobs don’t wait on a parts order. For the older homes off Tequesta Drive and along the canals, that means we’re usually in and out in one visit.
Common Air Duct Repair Problems We See in Tequesta Homes
- Mold in return-air boots within 12 – 18 months of a prior cleaning. Canal-front and riverfront slab homes wick ground moisture straight into return boots, and the contamination timeline here is the shortest we see across Palm Beach County.
- Fiberglass liner delamination in 1960s – 1980s plenums. Decades of elevated humidity breaks the adhesive bond, the liner peels, and you’re now breathing fibers and catching debris in the airflow.
- Collapsed flex duct at sag points. Flex runs in Tequesta attics absorb moisture, sag, and eventually fold. The register they served stops getting air, and the homeowner notices a room that never cools during the worst of summer.
- Dryer vent lint trap bypass failures. In older Tequesta homes, dryer vents often route through humid chases where the lint trap bypass degrades and pulls humid exterior air back through the duct system when the dryer isn’t running.
Pricing for Air Duct Repair in Tequesta, FL
Here are the numbers we quote daily in Tequesta. Partial flex duct replacement: $340 – $890. Single plenum re-lining or repair: $450 – $1,100. Whole-system duct replacement on an 1,800 – 2,400 square foot home: $3,200 – $5,800. Full ductwork installation: $3,800 – $5,800 for typical slab homes, more for complex chases through concrete. What changes the price? The length of failed runs, whether plenums need re-lining versus full replacement, how accessible the attic or chase is, and whether we’re patching one room or doing the whole system right.
Before we come out, we’ll ask for rough square footage and the age of the home, then give you a ballpark over the phone. The written quote confirms it before work starts. Call (980) 447-2498 for a free, no-pressure estimate on any repair.
We Also Serve Cities Near Tequesta
While this page covers Air Duct Repair in Tequesta specifically, our teams regularly handle jobs across the broader region. That includes Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, and Orlando. If you’re calling from one of those cities, the same pricing model and the same written-guarantee standard apply.
Serving Tequesta, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Tequesta 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 Tequesta
Because Tequesta is surrounded by water on three sides. The Loxahatchee River on the west, the Intracoastal on the east, and the finger canals running between them keep ambient humidity elevated even when inland Palm Beach County dries out seasonally. Your friend’s house in Palm Beach Gardens sits on drier ground with better air movement. Your slab-built home on a canal has ground moisture wicking up through the slab and into return-air boots, and that moisture feeds biological growth in 12 – 18 months versus the 3 – 5 year cycle you’d see inland. It’s not your housekeeping or your AC unit. It’s the geography. Call (980) 447-2498 and we’ll do a camera inspection to show you exactly what’s growing and where.
No. A fogging treatment fills the ductwork with a mist that masks odor for a few weeks, but it does not remove the moisture source or the degraded liner that’s hosting microbial growth. We were called to a canal-front home off Tequesta Drive where the homeowner had paid for a fogging “sanitizing” service six months earlier. The smell never really left. Camera inspection showed saturated fiberglass liner peeling inside the main return plenum, and a collapsed flex run starving the master bedroom register. We pulled the failed flex, re-lined and sealed the plenum under negative pressure to NADCA standards, and the smell cleared within a day of the system running. If anyone offers you a fog-only service, ask them what it does about the moisture source. If they don’t have an answer, call us at (980) 447-2498.
We run a camera through the system. If the ductwork is otherwise sound and the problem is one failed run, a torn boot connection, or a delaminating liner in a single plenum, repair makes sense and ranges $340 – $1,100. If the liner has failed across multiple plenums, multiple flex runs are collapsed or sagging, and the system is original to a 1970s house, replacement is usually the cheaper long-term call: $3,200 – $5,800 whole-home versus chasing a new failure every six months. We’ll show you the camera footage and explain what you’re looking at before we recommend anything. Call (980) 447-2498 for a free evaluation.
Expect the work to focus on the return side first. 1970s slab homes on canals typically have fiberglass-lined metal plenums that have been absorbing ground moisture for 50 years, and return boots that re-colonize with mold within 12 – 18 months of a cleaning. The repair will likely involve replacing collapsed flex runs, re-lining or replacing the main return plenum, and sealing all boot connections with mastic. We work under negative pressure to contain any particulates during the job, and we’ll show you before-and-after photos of your own ducts when we’re done. Written price first, photo ID at the door, and a written 365-day guarantee on the work.
Yes. We work with all major residential duct and HVAC equipment brands, and we use Rotobrush and Nikro inspection systems to look inside the ductwork regardless of what name is on the air handler. For filtration and air-quality upgrades, we commonly install Abatement Technologies and Guardsman products where a Tequesta home needs better moisture or particulate control. You don’t need to replace your system to get the ductwork right. Call (980) 447-2498 and tell us what’s in the house; we’ll tell you exactly what we can do with it.
Every air duct repair we perform in Tequesta carries a 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the repair fails within 365 days, we come back and make it right at no charge. No pro-rated coverage, no “that’s outside the scope” conversation. It’s written on every job ticket, and it’s why we do the work correctly the first time. Marcus Veale, who leads our Tequesta operations, stands behind every job we put our name on.
If you smell musty air when the system kicks on, if a room never cools no matter how low you set the thermostat, or if you haven’t looked at the ductwork since the house was built, call (980) 447-2498 and ask for a duct inspection. We’ll give you a written quote, the tech’s name and photo before the visit, and an honest answer about what needs to be done and what doesn’t.
Written by Marcus Veale, Owner at Linden Air Duct Cleaning, serving Tequesta, FL since 2004.