That One Cold Room? It Is Usually the Ducts.

What Ductwork Repair Covers

People replace perfectly good equipment trying to fix a room that never gets comfortable. The new system goes in, the room is still uncomfortable, and nobody looks at the ducts. Airflow is delivered through the duct system, and if that system leaks, is crushed, is undersized, or was never balanced, the equipment cannot overcome it.

In this county we see it constantly in finished basements, over garages, in additions tied into an original trunk line, and in attic runs where flex duct has sagged or pulled loose at a boot. Property Renovators Home Services looks at the delivery system before recommending anything expensive, with 10 years in business and 20 years of trade experience behind how it's assessed.

What This Covers

• Static pressure readings to establish whether the duct system is actually restricting the equipment
• Locating disconnected, crushed, kinked, or collapsed flex duct runs
• Sealing leaking joints, boots, and plenum connections with mastic not tape that lets go
• Repairing and resupporting sagging flex runs in attics and crawl spaces
• Reconnecting registers and boots that have separated from the duct behind the drywall
• Return air problems, which are the most commonly undersized part of a residential system
• Damper adjustment and balancing between floors and zones
• Insulating ducts running through unconditioned attics and crawl spaces

Signs Your Ducts Are the Problem

• One room or one floor is always uncomfortable while the rest of the house is fine
• Weak airflow from certain registers even though the blower is clearly running
• The system runs a long time and struggles to satisfy the thermostat
• Rooms above a garage or in an addition never match the rest of the house
• Excess dust, especially soon after the filter was changed
• Visible disconnected or sagging duct in the attic, basement, or crawl space
• A whistling or roaring noise at the return when the system starts

How We Assess a Duct Problem

We measure before we open anything

Static pressure tells us whether the duct system is restricting the equipment and roughly where. Without that number, duct work is guesswork.

We go look at the actual runs

Attic, basement, crawl space, wherever the ducts live. Disconnected boots and crushed flex are found by looking, and they're more common than people expect.

We check the return, not just the supply

Return air is undersized in a large share of homes. A system starved on the return side underperforms everywhere no matter how good the supply ducts are.

We fix the delivery problem before anyone talks about equipment

If a duct repair solves the uncomfortable room, you didn't need a new system. That's the order that serves you, and you get a written quote before any of it starts.

Frequently Asked Questions

Ductwork Repair Across Montgomery County

We're based in Gaithersburg and cover the whole county. The heating and cooling side runs every day of the week, 8am to 7pm, Saturday included.

• Gaithersburg
• Rockville
• Bethesda
• Silver Spring
• Germantown
• Potomac
• Olney
• Kensington
• Wheaton
• Damascus
• Clarksburg
• Chevy Chase
• Takoma Park
• Aspen Hill
• Montgomery Village
• Poolesville