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Sanitizing & deodorizingWhole-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.
Fast, Reliable Duct Sealing Across Pembroke Park
Duct sealing in Pembroke Park usually runs $450 to $1,400 for a whole home, depending on how much of your system is accessible and how badly the years have treated it. If you live in an older mobile home or apartment building here, the honest truth is that sealing, not just cleaning, is often the fix that stops the musty smell and the runaway electric bill. Our crews know the older duct systems in Pembroke Park because we work on them every week, from the mobile home parks along Hallandale Beach Boulevard to the low-rise apartments off Southwest 30th Avenue. Call us at (754) 354-3644 and we’ll give you a straight answer about what your ducts actually need.
Why Hollis Air Duct Fort Lauderdale Is Pembroke Park’s Preferred Duct Sealing Company
We built our reputation in Pembroke Park by showing up on time, writing the price down before any work starts, and standing behind the job for a full year under the 365-Day Done Right Promise. That promise is written on every invoice: if the sealing work fails within a year, we come back and make it right at no charge. No debates. No “well, that’s a different part.”
Roy Castellanos leads our crew, and the standard he enforces is simple and non-negotiable: arrive inside the quoted window, price in writing before the first tool comes off the truck, do the work by the book, and leave the site cleaner than we found it. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, so when someone knocks on your door in Pembroke Park, you know exactly who you’re letting into your home. We serve the whole town, and our scheduling is coordinated from our South Florida office in Miami, with crews dispatched locally to Pembroke Park.
The equipment we run is the same class of gear commercial crews use: Rotobrush rotary brush systems, Nikro negative-air machines, and filtration from Honeywell. We explain what each piece does before we use it, in plain English, so you know what’s happening in your ducts and why.
Styles & brands we work with
HVAC Duct Sealing in Pembroke Park
HVAC Duct Sealing in Pembroke Park is the process of closing the gaps, cracks, and failed joints in your ductwork so the air your system heats or cools actually reaches your rooms instead of dumping into a crawlspace or wall cavity. In Pembroke Park specifically, this work matters more than in drier inland towns because our air carries salt and moisture. Every leak in a duct here is also an entry point for the damp, salty air that corrodes metal, feeds mold, and turns a small gap into a large problem. Sealing here has to address both air loss and the material degradation that’s already underway.
What a Sealing Job Looks Like
We start with a camera inspection of the accessible duct runs, looking for the failure points: separated joints, rusted-through sections, crushed flex runs, and old patches that have failed. Then we clean the surfaces so the mastic adheres properly. Then we seal with duct mastic, not tape, because mastic is a thick paste that cures into a permanent barrier. In Pembroke Park’s humidity, duct tape dries out and peels within a season. Mastic does not.
When a Pembroke Park Homeowner Needs Sealing
You need sealing if you’ve noticed rooms that never reach the right temperature, musty air coming from the vents, higher electric bills with no change in usage, or dust building up quickly after you clean it. In older Pembroke Park mobile homes, we often find that a previous cleaning was done without sealing, which means the same dirty air kept getting pulled back in through the leaks. For our full service area coverage, see Duct Sealing in Pembroke Park for more on how local conditions affect this work.
Duct Repair in Pembroke Park
Duct Repair in Pembroke Park means fixing what’s broken before you can seal what’s leaking. In the town’s 1960s and 1970s mobile homes and apartments, we regularly find crushed flex runs in crawlspaces that are too narrow for a person to enter without specialized tools, original galvanized supply ducts with rust holes near the registers, and disconnected joints that a quick visual check would never catch. A repair job in Pembroke Park typically runs $250 to $700 on its own, or more when multiple sections need replacement.
Common Repairs in Older PEMBROKE PARK Systems
Rust-through is the big one here. The constant humidity and salt air eat through 50-year-old galvanized metal until pinholes and larger openings form. We replace those sections rather than patch them, because a patch on rusted metal is just a temporary cover. We’ll also repair crushed flex runs by replacing them with properly sized new flex, and we’ll re-secure ducts that have sagged or separated at the joints.
What Repair Costs Include
Every repair quote includes the materials, the labor, and the sealing mastic applied to every joint we touch. There is no separate charge for the mastic, and no per-foot price that grows once we’re inside. The price you get before we start is the price you pay when we’re done. That’s part of the written-price standard that runs through every job our Duct Sealing team performs.
Trusted Brands We Service in Pembroke Park
Our work in Pembroke Park involves equipment and materials from brands we trust because they hold up in this climate. We carry Rotobrush rotary brush systems for deep cleaning before sealing, Nikro negative-air machines for source removal with HEPA filtration, and Honeywell filtration products for customers who want to upgrade their indoor air quality after we seal the leaks. We stock common replacement parts and sealing materials locally, which means a faster turnaround for Pembroke Park customers who need us to get the job done in a single visit.
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AfterCommon Duct Sealing Problems We See in Pembroke Park Homes
- Mismatched patch jobs from previous ‘Florida-fixes.’ We regularly find ductwork that’s been patched with whatever was on hand: foil tape over a rust hole, a piece of aluminum flashing screwed over a gap, caulk smeared around a joint. The problem is these patches trap salt-laden moisture between the layers, so the corrosion accelerates behind the repair and the leak returns worse than before.
- Duct tape peeling at the seams. In Pembroke Park’s year-round humidity, standard duct tape loses its adhesive within a season. We see joints that were “sealed” years ago now fully open, with conditioned air pouring into unconditioned space.
- Crushed flex runs in narrow crawlspaces. Older mobile homes and apartment buildings here have crawlspaces that require specialized equipment to access. A quick visual check from the access hatch misses the crushed or disconnected flex runs further in, which is why our camera inspection matters before any sealing quote.
- Rust-through on original galvanized ducts. The original ductwork in Pembroke Park’s 1960s and 1970s homes has had decades of salty, humid air blowing through it. We find pinholes and larger rust openings near registers, especially in homes within a few miles of the Atlantic.
Pricing for Duct Sealing in Pembroke Park, FL
In Pembroke Park, a straightforward whole-home duct sealing job on a single-family house or small apartment generally lands between $450 and $1,400. Mobile homes with accessible duct runs tend to fall on the lower end, between $400 and $800, provided there’s no significant repair work needed. Repair work adds to the total depending on what we find: a simple joint reseal might add $100 to $150, while replacing a section of rusted galvanized duct can add $300 to $700. If you need both cleaning and sealing, which many Pembroke Park homes do, a combined job typically runs $800 to $1,800. We write every price down before any work starts, and that number does not move at the door. Call (754) 354-3644 for a free estimate on your specific system.
We Also Serve Cities Near Pembroke Park
If you’re just outside town, we cover Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Plantation, and Sunrise with the same written-price standard and 365-Day Done Right Promise. Many of our Pembroke Park customers have family in these neighboring cities, and we’re glad to extend the same service when they need it.
Serving Pembroke Park, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Pembroke Park 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 Duct Sealing in Pembroke Park
Sealing comes first because sanitizing a leaky duct system is a waste of time and money. If your ducts have open joints, rust holes, or failed patches, new humid salt air keeps entering from outside, which means mold and mildew return within weeks of a sanitizing treatment. We seal the leaks to close off the outside air, then sanitize what’s left inside. That order is what makes the results hold. Call (754) 354-3644 and we’ll confirm whether your system needs sealing before any sanitizing work.
A ‘Florida-fix’ is a local term for a quick, temporary duct repair done with mismatched materials: foil tape over a rust hole, caulk shoved into a gap, a piece of flashing screwed over a seam. They fail because the materials aren’t meant for ductwork and because they trap moisture behind them, which speeds up corrosion. If your system has had this kind of patch job, it needs to be properly opened, cleaned, and sealed with mastic. That’s the kind of repair we do every week in Pembroke Park. Call us for a camera inspection and an honest assessment.
Yes. We use inspection cameras and long-reach tools to access and seal ductwork in crawlspaces that a person can’t physically enter. In older Pembroke Park mobile homes, this is common: the crawlspace might be 18 inches high or less. We can inspect, repair, and seal many of these systems from the access points and the register openings, and our camera work shows you exactly what we found before we seal it. Call (754) 354-3644 for a free estimate on your setup.
Salt air accelerates corrosion on metal ducts, so the longer a leak has been open in a home near the coast, the more likely the surrounding metal has rusted beyond what mastic alone can fix. In homes near Hallandale Beach Boulevard, we often find that a simple seal job needs to be paired with section replacement because the metal itself is compromised. The sealing work we do here has to address both the air leak and the material degradation, which is exactly why we don’t just slap mastic on and leave. Call us and we’ll give you a straight answer about what your ducts can and can’t be sealed.
Yes, in most cases. When your ducts leak, the air your HVAC system worked to heat or cool escapes into the crawlspace or walls instead of reaching your rooms. Your system runs longer and harder to hit the thermostat setpoint, which shows up on your bill. We were called to a 1972 mobile home off Hallandale Beach Boulevard where the homeowner complained of musty air and high electric bills. Our camera inspection found the original galvanized supply ducts had rusted pinholes near the registers, and a previous Florida-fix patch was literally peeling away at the seams. After source removal with HEPA filtration, we sealed every accessible joint with duct mastic, replaced two crushed flex runs, and rebalanced the airflow. The mustiness disappeared and the blower motor stopped cycling constantly. That’s the kind of result sealing delivers when it’s done right. Call (754) 354-3644 for a free estimate on your Pembroke Park system.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Fort Lauderdale, serving Pembroke Park since 2004.