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.
Why Return Leaks Are Often Overlooked
The return plenum is the box on the intake side of the air handler where room air collects before passing through the filter and across the cooling coil or heat exchanger, and it operates under negative pressure while the system runs, which makes leaks here behave differently than supply-side leaks. A gap or seam failure in the return plenum does not blow conditioned air out, it pulls unconditioned air in, and in an attic-mounted air handler that means pulling in attic air that can be 130 degrees or hotter in summer, directly into the airstream feeding your living space before it even reaches the coil. This is one of the most common and most overlooked sources of comfort and efficiency loss we find, because homeowners naturally look for supply leaks first since those are the ones you can sometimes feel.
Return plenum failures typically show up as seam separation where the sheet metal panels were never fully sealed at assembly, gaps around the filter rack door where the gasket has degraded, or cracks that develop at corner joints from years of the equipment's vibration during startup and shutdown cycles. We repair these by first pressure-testing the plenum informally to locate all leak points, since a return leak that seems minor visually can be moving significant air volume due to the negative pressure pulling through it. Seam gaps get mastic sealed, filter rack doors get new foam gasket material if the old gasket has compressed or torn, and any cracked corner joints get reinforced with sheet metal patches before sealing.
In homes with attic-mounted air handlers, which describes a large share of Georgetown construction from the 1990s onward, return plenum condition matters more than in homes with return ductwork run through a conditioned basement or utility closet, simply because of what is on the other side of the leak. We also check the return plenum whenever a homeowner reports a musty smell from the vents or excessive dust after they have ruled out other causes, since a leaking return plenum in a humid attic space can introduce both dust and moisture-related odors directly into the airstream. Return plenum repair typically costs 200 to 550 dollars depending on the number and severity of leak points found during inspection.
Frequently Asked Questions, Return Plenum Repair
Uneven Comfort or High Energy Bills?
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