Express Air Duct CleaningJupiter, FL
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The inside of a fibreglass-lined plenum box, a rectangular duct opening cut into its wall and dust lying on the floor of the box
The plenum, from the inside: every branch in the house leaves through an opening like this one, and every opening is a joint that can fail.

Duct repair — Jupiter, FL

One room that never gets cold. The duct is usually why.

A run that has come apart delivers its air to the attic instead of the bedroom. We trace the branch that feeds the room, name what is wrong with it, and reconnect, re-hang or seal it.

  • One room warm while the rest are fine
  • A register you can barely feel air at
  • A vent that whistles, roars or rattles
  • Duct you can see sagging in the attic
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4.9 on Google across 43 reviews

Sun–Thu 7 AM–8 PM · Fri 7 AM–6 PM · Sat closed

  • Florida licensed

    AC contractor CAC1822067

  • 4.9★

    43 Google reviews

  • Business hours

    Sun–Thu 7 AM–8 PM · Fri 7 AM–6 PM · Sat closed

  • Same or next day

    Scheduling that fits your week

Why it matters

What a repair changes that a cleaning cannot.

Cleaning moves dust. Repair moves air. When one room is wrong and every other room is fine, the fault is almost always a joint that has opened, a run that has come apart, or a length of flex duct that is no longer held up by anything.

  • The air arrives in the room

    A branch that has come off its collar still runs, and still costs you. It just delivers into the attic. Put it back and the register starts doing what every other register in the house already does.

  • You stop cooling the attic

    Air you have already paid to cool is exactly the air an open joint loses. One reviewer describes the system blowing straight into an unfinished attic through torn foil tape at the main plenum collar.

  • The pressure comes back

    A flex run crushed against a joist or kinked round a tight turn strangles one branch and unbalances the rest of them. Freeing it puts the system back to the static pressure it was designed around.

  • Tape that failed in the heat

    Foil tape does not age in a Florida attic the way it ages in a catalogue. Where the adhesive has let go and the joint has opened, the connection is remade rather than taped over a second time.

  • Sagging duct is re-hung

    Flex that has come off its strapping drops into a belly the air has to climb out of. It is re-hung to the framing with proper support, which is why the same room does not go warm again next summer.

  • The fault gets a name

    Not "your ducts are bad". A collar that has come off, a boot loose at the studs, a zone damper stuck shut. The reviews on this profile name the faults this crew found, one by one.

The visit, step by step

Five steps, from the symptom to the seal.

Tap any step. Finding the fault is the part that takes the time on a repair — once the run is open, the repair itself is often the quick half of the visit.

  1. We start with the roomThe symptom narrows the search.
  2. The branch is tracedFrom that register back to the plenum.
  3. The fault is namedBefore anything is opened up further.
  4. The repairReconnected, re-hung, re-anchored or sealed.
  5. The check, with the system runningAt the register that sent you here.

Step 1 of 5

We start with the room

Which room, and whether it is warm all day or only from the afternoon on. Whether the register blows weakly or barely at all. Whether it started after a roof job, a re-insulation or a new unit. Each answer points at a different length of duct, and it is what decides where the technician goes into the attic first rather than opening ceilings at random.

Step 2 of 5

The branch is traced

The run is followed the whole way: the boot behind the grille, the collar it clamps to, the length of flex between, the strapping holding it up, and the takeoff where it leaves the plenum. One reviewer describes this crew going out of their way to check ductwork in a crawlspace. The fault is usually at one of those junctions rather than in the middle of a tube.

Step 3 of 5

The fault is named

You are told what is wrong in the terms of the thing itself — a collar that has pulled off, tape that has opened at the plenum, a crushed length of flex, a boot that is no longer anchored, a zone damper that is not moving. A reviewer on this profile describes a diagnostic visit that found a completely frozen zone damper behind a bedroom that would not warm up.

Step 4 of 5

The repair

What that means depends on what was found. A run goes back onto its collar and is fastened and sealed. A sagging length is strapped back to the framing — one reviewer describes flex duct in their attic re-hung with solid strapping. A loose boot is re-anchored to the studs and its screws tightened, which another reviewer describes in exactly those terms.

Step 5 of 5

The check, with the system running

The system is run and the register is checked before anyone packs up, because a repair that has not been felt at the grille has not been finished. If the real fault turns out to be the equipment rather than the duct — a damper, a blower, a bearing — that is said plainly instead of being papered over with sealant.

  • 4.9

    Rating on the Jupiter Google profile

    Recounted from the profile artifact saved on 2026-09-18, not read off the star display.

  • 68.8%

    Of Jupiter's homes were built before 2000

    ACS 2024 five-year estimates, tables B25034 / B25024 / B25003 / B25077.

  • 72.8%

    Of North Palm Beach's, before 1980

    Same ACS tables. Older houses carry older duct, older strapping and older tape.

  • 14

    Towns on the route

    Each one has its own page, with its own housing numbers.

Checkable, not claimed

What makes this lawful work, and where you can check it.

  • Florida licence CAC1822067

    A Certified Air Conditioning Contractor licence, active to 31 August 2028. Repair and replacement of ductwork sit inside its scope under Florida statute 489.105.

    Searchable by number at myfloridalicense.com.

  • Held by the company, not claimed personally

    The licence is held by Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC — the company this Jupiter crew trades under — with Keith C Tatman as its qualifier. No individual here is described as the licensee.

    Sunbiz L21000391856; Express Air Duct Cleaning Jupiter is a registered name of it.

  • NADCA member since July 2024

    Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC has been a member of the National Air Duct Cleaners Association since 22 July 2024.

    Listed on nadca.com under Find a Professional.

  • You are told what was wrong

    The specific fault is named before it is repaired: a collar that came off, tape that opened, a boot loose at the studs, a damper that is not moving.

    Reviews on the profile name the faults this crew found, one by one.

  • The quote comes before the work

    A repair cannot be priced from a phone call, so it is quoted in your home once the technician has found the fault and seen what putting it right involves — and before anything starts.

    Reviewers mention no unexpected charges at the end.

  • Every Google review, one-star included

    4.9 from 43 reviews on the Jupiter profile, and the one-star is among them. It sits on our reviews page with all the rest.

    Counted from the saved profile, never derived from the average.

  • 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 rest of the work

What else this crew is called out for.

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  1. Air duct cleaning

    Every supply and return opened, then the whole run brushed and vacuumed — plenum and blower wheel included, not the six inches you can see.

  2. 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.

  3. Duct repair

    This page: leaks sealed, loose runs reconnected and damaged ductwork repaired so conditioned air reaches every room in the house.

Where we repair duct

Jupiter, and thirteen towns around it.

What we find depends on when the house was built and where its air handler sits. An attic run in a 1970s North Palm Beach house is a different repair from a slab-on-grade plenum in The Acreage. Each town has its own page.

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Palm Beach County, with the towns we serve picked out. Stuart is served too and sits in Martin County, just off this map.

Palm Beach County, with the towns we serve picked out. Stuart is served too and sits in Martin County, just off this map.

Green: we serve it

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Is your town on the list?

Housing counts are American Community Survey 2024 five-year estimates.

On the Google profile

What people wrote about the repairs.

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“Air conditioning was blowing straight into the unfinished attic because of torn foil tape around the main plenum collar”

“Air conditioning was blowing straight into the unfinished attic because of torn foil tape around the main plenum collar. Using heavy-duty glue to seal the gap fixed the problem right away and got the rest of the house back to normal static pressure. Finally, the heat is the same in every room.”

Wesley Hunter
“Re-hung sagging flex duct in our attic with solid strapping”

“Re-hung sagging flex duct in our attic with solid strapping to correct issue permanently.”

Cynthia Marshall
“He re-anchored the frame of the boot to the studs in the walls”

“Knowledgeable personnel came with all the appropriate components on their vehicle and fixed the issue instantly. He re-anchored the frame of the boot to the studs in the walls, tightened the screws holding it, and was able to remedy the problem fully. Now the system runs as silent as a whisper!”

Sofia Serra
“a diagnostic specialist came out and found a completely frozen zone damper”

“After calling the front office about our freezing lower-level bedroom, a diagnostic specialist came out and found a completely frozen zone damper. He manually cleared the mechanism, lubed the pivot joints, and managed to fix issue so heat could flow again.”

Mario Vitale
“After fixing and cleaning the damaged areas, the whole floor is finally cool again”

“At first, we thought that the problem with airflow upstairs meant we needed a whole new HVAC system. Luckily, the expert checked the ductwork first and found that years of buildup inside the vents had made it hard for air to flow. After fixing and cleaning the damaged areas, the whole floor is finally cool again. Saved us from wasting thousands of dollars.”

Taylor Warren
“They were able to cleanly repair the issue after only a few minutes”

“They were able to cleanly repair the issue after only a few minutes after finding an unusual whistling sound.”

Alexis Rivera

Before you call

The questions we get about a room that is wrong.

Not answered here? Call (561) 652-5107 and describe the room — a technician will tell you what it sounds like before anyone books anything.

Ask us directly
One room in my house never gets cold. Is that the ductwork?
It is the first thing to check. A system short of capacity leaves the whole house uncomfortable; a single room that lags behind its neighbours points at the branch feeding it, and that branch is a repair rather than a replacement in most of the houses we are called to.
Can the duct be repaired, or does it all have to be replaced?
In most of the houses we are called to, a repair is what is needed: a reconnection, new support, a joint remade, a boot re-anchored. Replacement is a different conversation and it belongs to whole systems that are undersized, contaminated beyond cleaning, or so brittle that every joint fails as soon as the next one is fixed. We will tell you which of the two you are looking at once the run is open, and we will tell you when the honest answer is the cheaper one.
How do you find the leak if the duct is in the attic?
By following the branch rather than by guessing, and most faults turn out to be at a junction rather than in the middle of a tube: a collar, a boot, a takeoff, or a strap that has let a run drop. A reviewer on this profile describes the crew going out of their way to check ductwork in a crawlspace, which is the same principle in the other direction.
Is duct repair licensed work in Florida?
Repairing and replacing ductwork falls under a Certified Air Conditioning Contractor licence in Florida, under statute 489.105. The licence this work is done under is CAC1822067, held by Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC — the company this Jupiter crew trades under — with Keith C Tatman as its qualifier, and active to 31 August 2028. You can look the number up yourself at myfloridalicense.com; we would rather you did than take our word for it.
Is duct sealing the same thing as duct repair?
Sealing is one of the things a repair can involve, not a separate service. Where a joint has opened because its tape or mastic failed, closing that joint properly is the repair. But a run that has come apart needs reconnecting and fastening before anything is sealed, and a sagging run needs re-hanging first — sealing a duct that is not supported just puts a neat finish on a problem that will come back.
Why does tape keep failing in my attic?
Because a Florida attic is a hard place to be adhesive. Summer temperatures up there run far above what the living space ever sees, humidity cycles through every day, and the duct itself flexes a little every time the blower starts and stops. Tape that was adequate on the day it went on gives up years before the duct does. That is why an opened joint gets the connection remade and fastened rather than simply taped over a second time.
Do I need the ducts cleaned as well as repaired?
Not automatically, and we will not sell you both because you called about one. They answer different complaints: repair is for air that is not arriving, cleaning is for what the air is carrying. Where a run has been open to an attic for a while the two do tend to travel together, because unfiltered attic air has been going into the system the whole time. If that is what the technician finds, you will be told so and shown why — and if it is not, you will be told that too.
What does a duct repair cost?
There is no honest number to print here, because a repair is priced by what is wrong rather than by the square footage of the house. Re-anchoring one boot and re-hanging a run of flex are not the same job as remaking a plenum takeoff. What we can promise is the order it happens in: the technician finds the fault, tells you what it is, quotes the work in your home, and starts only once you have agreed to that figure.

Book the repair visit

Tell us which room is wrong.

Which room it is, and whether it is warm all day or only from the afternoon on. That one answer tells us most of what we need before anyone arrives.

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