Ductwork & Airflow Services, Georgetown TX
Duct Repair & Construction
Repair disconnected, damaged, or collapsed duct sections. Restore airflow to rooms losing conditioned air.
Professional duct sealing with mastic or foil tape, eliminate air leaks that waste conditioned air in attic and crawlspace.
New duct system design and installation for additions, renovations, or full system replacement.
Custom fabrication of sheet metal trunk lines, branches, and fittings for high-performance duct systems.
Splice and reconnect flex duct sections, replace damaged sections, and correct improper flex duct installations.
Custom supply plenum fabrication for equipment replacements where the new unit requires a different plenum configuration.
Repair leaking or damaged return air plenums that allow unconditioned attic air to enter the system.
Applied mastic sealing for all duct joints and connections, the most durable sealing method for Georgetown's attic conditions.
Seal duct boots at registers where leakage directly into walls or ceilings causes significant energy loss.
Airflow Balancing
Measure and balance air distribution across all supply and return vents for even comfort throughout the home.
Comprehensive whole-house airflow evaluation and adjustment, dampers, registers, and duct sizing evaluated.
Balance airflow to specific problem rooms that receive too much or too little conditioned air.
Adjust zone dampers and control settings for homes with zoning systems to improve comfort and efficiency.
Full optimization of multi-zone airflow systems, control logic, damper travel, and zone sizing.
Optimize how conditioned air is distributed throughout the duct system for efficiency and comfort.
Improve overall air movement in the home through duct, register, and equipment adjustments.
Undersized return air is the most overlooked duct problem, we measure and correct return air flow.
Expand or add return air drops to improve system static pressure and airflow in homes with insufficient return capacity.
Dampers & Registers
Install manual balancing dampers in branch ducts to control airflow to specific zones or rooms.
Repair or replace motorized zone dampers that are stuck open, stuck closed, or not responding to controls.
Replace damaged, rusted, or improperly sized floor registers and diffusers.
Replace ceiling supply and return grilles with correct sizing and airflow direction for your room layout.
Install transfer grilles to improve pressure equalization and airflow between rooms with closed doors.
Install jump ducts above doorways or through walls to allow air pressure equalization between zones.
Redirect or baffle supply vents that blow directly on occupants or create drafty areas.
Measure and calibrate airflow from each vent against design specifications.
Ventilation & Testing
Repair ERVs, HRVs, exhaust fans, and dedicated ventilation systems.
Improve fresh air exchange and indoor air quality through targeted ventilation upgrades.
Measure system static pressure to identify duct restrictions causing equipment stress and efficiency loss.
Isolate duct sections from structure to eliminate vibration noise that transmits through walls and ceilings.
Install internal duct lining to absorb noise from high-velocity air movement in ducts near occupied spaces.
Duct Insulation & Protection
Install or replace duct insulation in Georgetown attics where heat gain from uninsulated ducts wastes significant energy.
Install vapor barriers to prevent condensation on cold supply ducts in Georgetown's humid summers.
Support or repair duct systems during crawlspace encapsulation projects.
Repair small-diameter high-velocity duct systems found in older homes and historic properties.
How We Diagnose and Fix Imbalanced Airflow
Airflow balancing is the process of measuring how much conditioned air each register in the home is actually delivering, then adjusting dampers, duct sizing, or register placement until the distribution matches what the home's layout requires. A duct system that is correctly designed on paper can still end up imbalanced in practice, because branch takeoffs closest to the air handler naturally receive more pressure than distant ones, longer runs and more elbows add resistance that reduces flow, and dampers get bumped, closed, or left in whatever position the last technician set them without documentation.
We start a balancing job by measuring airflow at every supply register using a flow hood, which captures the register and reads cubic feet per minute directly, and we compare those numbers against the design targets calculated from the home's room-by-room load. Rooms receiving significantly more air than their load requires get dialed back at the branch damper, while underserved rooms get opened up or, if the damper is already fully open and airflow is still low, we investigate whether the branch duct itself is undersized, kinked, or has too many bends for its length. Balancing is an iterative process, since closing one damper changes the pressure available to every other branch on the same trunk, so we re-measure after each adjustment rather than setting all dampers once and assuming the job is done.
In Georgetown homes, we see imbalance most often in additions where a new branch was tapped into an existing trunk without re-balancing the rest of the system, and in two-story homes where the upstairs zone is chronically underserved because the original design did not account for solar heat gain through the roof deck. A full whole-home balancing visit typically takes 2 to 4 hours depending on the number of registers and runs 250 to 550 dollars, and the result is documented with before and after airflow readings at each register so you have a record of what was adjusted and why.
Frequently Asked Questions, Airflow Balancing
Uneven Comfort or High Energy Bills?
Ductwork problems are often the hidden cause. We diagnose and fix them.