United Air Duct Cleaning And Restoration Services

06/16/2026

This one's a good example of why we always pull the registers before we start.
Got called out to a home in Katy this week — the homeowner said the AC had been running fine but they'd noticed more dust on surfaces lately and their daughter's allergies had been rough all spring. When we opened things up, this is what we found inside the ducts. The registers themselves had mold spotting on several of them, and the flexible duct runs had years of compacted debris along the interior walls.
We cleaned the full system — 12 registers washed down, duct interiors brushed and vacuumed end to end, plenum cleared out. The difference in airflow after is noticeable immediately.
Katy homes, especially ones built in the 2000s and 2010s with flex duct throughout the attic, tend to accumulate faster than most people expect. The heat up there drives humidity into the duct walls during cooling cycles, and the debris doesn't just sit dry — it gets sticky and packs in.
If it's been more than a few years, or you've moved into a home and don't know the history, give us a call. We'll tell you what we find before we quote anything.
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06/06/2026

"What does an air duct cleaning actually look like? I've never had one done."
Got this question twice this week, so here's the walkthrough — because there's a lot of vague information out there.
We bring in a truck-mounted negative-air vacuum and connect it directly to your return air. That puts the entire duct system under negative pressure. Then we go vent by vent with rotary brushes that agitate all the dust, dander, and debris off the duct walls — and the vacuum pulls it all out before any of it can drift back into the house.
At the end we run a camera through so you can see the before-and-after yourself. No "trust us, it's clean" handshake. Most homes take 2 to 4 hours. Floor protection goes down at the start. No mess at the end.
Free quotes, and we'll never push add-ons that aren't warranted. (281) 318-5155

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06/03/2026

Anybody else's carpets looking… rougher than they did in March?
Summer in Katy is hard on carpet. Kids running in and out, pool water through hallways, AC pulling outdoor dust deeper into the fibers, pets shedding more than usual. By July most homes need a refresh whether the owners realize it or not.
Quick note on equipment, since people ask — the rental machines from the grocery store don't run anywhere near hot enough to actually pull dirt up. Truck-mounted equipment runs at 220°F and properly extracts both the water and the soil. Most whole-house jobs are 2–3 hours and dry by the time you go to bed.
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06/03/2026

PSA as we head into peak humidity in Katy:
90% humidity outside, AC running 24/7 inside — that's the perfect setup for mold growth wherever there's standing moisture. Under a leaky sink. Behind a washing machine that's been slow-dripping. Around the water heater pan in the garage. You don't always smell it before you see it.
If you've got a soft spot in drywall, a baseboard pulling away from the wall, or a musty smell that won't go away after cleaning — call. We do emergency response, work with all major insurance carriers, and document everything for your claim.
The first 72 hours after water exposure is the difference between a $500 problem and a $5,000 one. (281) 318-5155

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06/01/2026

For the property managers and small business owners in Katy:
Commercial HVAC buildup hits your bottom line in two places residential customers never see — energy bills (a clogged system pulls way more amps than a clean one) and tenant complaints (the air quality issues nobody can pin to a single cause).
We handle scheduled commercial maintenance for office buildings, medical and dental offices, and retail spaces across the area. After-hours scheduling so we don't disrupt operations. If you're managing multiple units and the current vendor is more of a hassle than a help, give us a call. (281) 318-5155

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05/31/2026

Remember that booster fan we showed you completely choked with lint? Here it is after — spinning free and moving air again like it's supposed to. Most folks don't even know they have one of these on their vent run until it quits. Brookshire job this week. If your dryer's running hot or taking forever, get the vent looked at before lint season catches up with you. 📞 (281) 318-5155

05/30/2026

Cross Creek Ranch is mostly two-story builds, and that means long dryer vent runs. Most of these homes route the vent from a second-floor laundry room up through the attic and out a roof cap — anywhere from 25 to 50 feet of duct, often with two or three elbows along the way. Every elbow is a place where lint settles and stops moving.
The fire safety angle gets all the attention, but there's a separate cost most homeowners don't think about. A clogged vent runs the dryer 30 to 50 percent longer per load. For a Texas household running five loads a week on current electric rates, that works out to roughly $150 to $220 per year in wasted electricity, before you factor in the extra wear and tear on the dryer itself. A vent that's never been cleaned in a 10-year-old home has almost certainly cost more in elevated bills than a single professional cleaning would have run years ago.
Other thing worth knowing — clean vents extend dryer lifespan by 3 to 5 years. The motor and the heating element both work harder when airflow is restricted. We've replaced enough dryer thermal fuses and burnt-out heating elements over the years to recognize an early-replacement dryer when we see one. Almost every one of them had a vent that hadn't been touched.
Cross Creek jobs typically run an hour to ninety minutes — longer for roof-routed setups versus side-vented. We pull the dryer, scope the line, brush from both ends, and verify airflow with a meter before reconnecting. Annual cleaning is the right cadence for any household doing four or more loads a week.
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05/28/2026

Real talk: this is what was hiding behind a dryer in Brookshire this week 😳
See that fan packed solid with gray fluff? That's a dryer booster fan — a lot of homes out here have one on longer vent runs and most people don't even know it's there. The wall cap, the duct, the whole housing were jammed with lint. When it's like that, your dryer's basically working out while wrapped in a blanket… and lint that packed next to a hot motor is how dryer fires start.
Swipe to the clean shots — same system, lint gone, air actually moving again.
If your clothes need two runs to dry, or the dryer's hot to the touch, or you just genuinely can't remember the last time anyone cleaned the vent — get it looked at. We're all over Brookshire, Katy, Fulshear and Fort Bend.
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05/25/2026

Pulled these from a job we wrapped up this morning over in Richmond, right off Oak Knoll Dr (77406 area).
This is the inside of the supply plenum — basically the box your AC pushes air into before it heads out to each room. Those metal "gear" rings are the collars where the flex ducts connect. Nobody ever sees this part of their system, which is exactly why we like showing it. When it looks this clean, your air's actually moving the way it should instead of dragging dust back through the house.
If your vents get dusty again a day after you wipe them, or you've got that one room that never cools down right, odds are the inside of your ducts looks nothing like this 👀
We cover Richmond, Katy, Fulshear and the rest of Fort Bend. Free quotes, no pressure.
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05/24/2026

Got a call last month from a Kelliwood homeowner — three-zone system, two-story, original 2003 build. We'd cleaned her ducts six weeks earlier and she was noticing a faint musty smell coming back on the master suite zone. Classic sign of coil biofilm starting to regrow.
Some homes are just prone to it. Heavily zoned systems where one zone runs less than the others, evap coils that stay damp longer in humid weather, attic-mounted units with limited airflow movement at the cabinet — all of those make a perfect substrate for bacteria and fungal growth on the wet side of the coil. Cleaning resets it, but the conditions that caused it are still there.
UV-C light installation is the long-term fix. We mount a 254-nanometer germicidal lamp inside the air handler, positioned to shine directly on the wet side of the evaporator coil. The light disrupts the DNA of bacteria, mold, and fungal spores on contact, which keeps the coil surface sterilized between cleanings. The bulb runs continuously, costs roughly $4 to $6 a month to operate, and gets replaced annually — UV output drops off around the 9 to 12 month mark even when the bulb is still lit.
Two install positions depending on what the system needs. Coil-mounted lights handle biofilm growth on the wet side. In-duct lights treat moving air in the supply trunk and make more sense for homes where someone has a suppressed immune system or severe mold sensitivities. Most Kelliwood installs end up coil-mounted. Whole job runs about an hour including the electrical drop.
Best paired with a duct cleaning, but works as a standalone upgrade too.
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