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A duct-board plenum interior at a flexible collar joint, only a light film of dust remaining.
A plenum seen from inside. Every branch leaves through an opening like this, and each opening is a joint that can let go.

Duct repair · Aventura, FL

The bedroom that stays warm is usually a duct that came apart.

When a run separates, its cold air goes into the ceiling space instead of the room. We follow the branch that serves that room, tell you exactly what failed, and reconnect, support or seal it.

  • One room warm while the others are fine
  • A grille that barely moves any air
  • A register that whistles or rattles
  • Duct you can see drooping overhead
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  • State-licensed

    Air-conditioning contractor CAC1822067

  • 4.8 · 49 reviews on our Google listingAs of See all reviews on Google

  • Hours on the listing

    Mon to Thu 7 AM to 8 PM · Fri 7 AM to 5 PM · Sat closed · Sun 7 AM to 7 PM · Book online 24/7

  • Same or next day

    Planned around your building

Repair, not cleaning

What fixing a run does that brushing it never will.

A cleaning removes dust; a repair restores airflow. When one room misbehaves and the rest are comfortable, the cause is nearly always an opened joint, a separated run, or flexible duct that has lost its support.

  • Cold air reaches the room again

    A branch that slipped off its collar keeps blowing, and keeps costing you, but into the ceiling. Reconnect it and that grille works like all the others.

  • No more paying to cool the ceiling

    An open joint wastes air you already paid to cool. A reviewer on our Aventura listing describes an open crack in the attic ducting that the crew found and fixed permanently.

  • Balanced pressure across the house

    Flex pinched against framing or kinked around a tight bend starves one branch and throws off the others. Freeing it returns the system to the pressure it was designed for.

  • Joints the heat has opened

    Foil tape does not hold up in a hot, humid ceiling space the way the box suggests. Where the glue has given up and the joint gapes, we rebuild the connection instead of taping over it again.

  • Drooping runs lifted and strapped

    Flex that slips its straps sags into a dip the air must climb out of. We hang it back on the framing with proper support so the same room does not warm up again next season.

  • A specific diagnosis

    Not a vague “your ducts are bad”, but a crack in a run, a loose joint behind a wall, a rusted seam on the intake box. The reviews on our Aventura listing name repairs like these, each one different.

How a repair visit runs

From what you feel in the room to the sealed joint.

Open each stage. Locating the fault is what takes time; once the run is exposed, the fix is often the faster half.

  1. Begin with the symptomThe room tells us where to look.
  2. Follow the branchFrom that grille back to the plenum.
  3. Name what failedBefore anything else is opened.
  4. Make the repairReconnect, support, anchor or seal.
  5. Check it runningAt the grille that started it.

Stage 1 of 5

Begin with the symptom

Which room, and is it warm all day or only after lunch? Does its grille blow weakly or hardly at all? Did it start after roof work, new insulation or a new air handler? Each answer points to a different stretch of duct, so the technician goes to the likeliest spot first instead of opening ceilings at random.

Stage 2 of 5

Follow the branch

We follow the whole run: the boot behind the grille, its collar, the flex in between, the straps holding it and the takeoff at the plenum. A reviewer on our Aventura listing describes the crew locating a disconnected joint behind finished basement walls with a snake camera. Faults tend to sit at those junctions, not mid-run.

Stage 3 of 5

Name what failed

You hear the fault in plain terms: a collar pulled loose, tape split at the plenum, a flattened length of flex, an unanchored boot, a zone damper that does not move. One review on our Aventura listing describes new hardware on a broken manual damper handle, and the basement feed pipe identified as the real problem.

Stage 4 of 5

Make the repair

It depends on what turned up. A run goes back on its collar and is fastened and sealed; a sagging length is strapped to the framing; a loose boot is anchored and its screws tightened. Reviews on our Aventura listing describe a disconnected joint reached through a tiny utility panel, and a rusty corner seam of the main intake box welded with galvanised sheet metal.

Stage 5 of 5

Check it running

We turn the system on and feel that grille before packing up; a repair nobody has felt at the register is not done. If the real culprit is equipment and not duct (a damper, a blower, a bearing), we say so plainly rather than hiding it under sealant.

  • 75.5%

    Of Aventura’s housing built before 2000

    ACS 2023 five-year estimates, tables B25034 / B25024 / B25003 / B25077.

  • 80.0%

    Of North Miami Beach’s built before 1980

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

  • 7

    Places we cover

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

Checkable, not claimed

The licence behind repair work, and how to look it up.

  • Florida licence CAC1822067

    A Certified Air Conditioning Contractor licence, valid to 31 August 2028. Under Florida statute 489.105, repairing and replacing ductwork falls within its scope.

    Look the number up at myfloridalicense.com.

  • The company holds it, not a person on this page

    The licence belongs to Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC, the company the Aventura crew works under, and Keith C Tatman is its qualifier. Nobody here is presented as the licensee.

    Sunbiz L21000391856, with Express Air Duct Cleaning Aventura as a registered name of it.

  • A NADCA member since July 2024

    Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC joined the National Air Duct Cleaners Association on 22 July 2024.

    Shown on nadca.com, under Find a Professional.

  • The fault is named first

    Before any repair, you are told what failed: a loose collar, split tape, a boot pulled from the studs, a damper that no longer moves.

    Reviews on our listing each describe a different fault the crew found.

  • Quoted before the work starts

    A repair cannot be priced over the phone, so we quote it at your home once the fault is found and the fix is clear, and nothing begins before that.

    A reviewer on our Aventura listing wrote of no hidden fees: the price matched the quote.

  • Reviews, shown as a selection

    The reviews on this site are a rotating selection of our newest five-star ratings, not a full transcript. The whole profile (every rating, not only the ones we show) is one click away on Google, through the link on our reviews page.

    Read every rating on the Google profile itself, through the link on our reviews page.

  • 100% satisfaction promise

    If anything is off, we return and fix it. This is our own promise, not a badge from someone else, so it is the one line here you cannot look up.

Other jobs we do

The rest of what this crew handles.

Compare the five services

  1. Air duct cleaning

    All supplies and returns opened, each run brushed and vacuumed, with the plenum and blower wheel included, not just the first few inches.

  2. Dryer vent cleaning

    The dryer line cleared from the connector behind the drum to where it exhausts, with the outside flap tested.

  3. Duct repair

    You are on this page: leaks sealed, loose runs reconnected and damaged duct repaired so every room gets its cooled air.

Where we repair duct

Aventura and the six places around it.

The repair depends on the building’s age and where its air handler sits. A 1950s attic run in North Miami Beach is a different job from a closet unit in a Sunny Isles Beach tower. Every place has its own page.

Open the service-area guide
Miami-Dade and Broward, with our seven places marked.

Miami-Dade and Broward, with our seven places marked.

Green: on our list

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Do we come to you?

Home counts: American Community Survey, 2023 five-year estimates.

From the Google listing

What customers wrote about their repairs.

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A selection of our 5-star reviews on Google.

  • Rebecca A.

    Noticeably stronger breeze coming through the upstairs registers following the air vent clean.

  • Tyler W.

    Never knew dryer exhaust lines could hold so much lint, really pleased we had them complete a dry vent clean.

  • Kenneth L.

    When they helped solve the problem, the temperature spikes in the bedrooms on the second level went back to normal.

Common questions

What people ask when one room is off.

Something not covered here? Call (561) 956-1733, describe the room, and a technician will tell you what it sounds like before you book.

Send us a question
One bedroom never cools down. Could the duct be the cause?
It is the first thing we check. A system that is too small leaves every room uncomfortable; one room trailing the rest points to the branch that feeds it, and in most homes we visit that branch needs a repair, not a new system.
Can you repair my ducts, or do they need replacing?
Usually a repair does it: a reconnection, fresh support, a joint rebuilt, a boot re-anchored. Replacement is a separate conversation for systems that are undersized, too contaminated to clean, or so brittle that each joint fails as the last is fixed. Once the run is open we tell you which case you have, including when the honest answer is also the cheaper one.
How do you find a leak in duct I cannot see?
By following the branch instead of guessing. Most faults are at a junction: a collar, a boot, a takeoff, or a strap that let a run drop. A reviewer on our Aventura listing describes the crew finding a disconnected joint behind finished walls with a snake camera, which is the same idea.
Does duct repair need a licence in Florida?
In Florida, repairing and replacing ductwork sits within a Certified Air Conditioning Contractor licence, under statute 489.105. This work is done under CAC1822067, held by Express Air Duct Cleaning LLC, the company the Aventura crew works under, with Keith C Tatman as qualifier, valid to 31 August 2028. Check the number yourself at myfloridalicense.com; we would rather you did.
Is sealing ducts a separate service from repairing them?
Sealing is one part a repair may include, not its own service. When tape or mastic has failed and a joint has opened, closing it properly is the repair. A run that has separated must be reconnected and fastened first, and a sagging one re-hung; sealing duct that is not supported only dresses up a problem that will return.
Why does duct tape keep letting go above my ceiling?
Because the space above a Florida ceiling is hard on any adhesive. It gets far hotter than the rooms below, humidity rises and falls every day, and the duct flexes a little whenever the blower cycles. Tape that was fine the day it went on fails years before the duct itself, so an opened joint gets remade and fastened rather than taped a second time.
Should the ducts be cleaned too while you repair them?
Not by default, and we will not push both because you called about one. They solve different problems: repair is for air that is not arriving, cleaning is for what the air carries. A run left open to the ceiling space for a while often needs both, because unfiltered air has been getting in the whole time; if the technician sees that, you are shown why, and if not, you are told so.
How much will a duct repair cost?
We cannot print a fair figure, because a repair is priced by the fault, not by the size of the home. Re-anchoring one boot and re-hanging a length of flex are nothing like rebuilding a plenum takeoff. What we can promise is the order: find the fault, explain it, quote it at your home, and begin only once you agree.
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Which room is the problem?

Tell us the room and whether it is warm all day or only in the afternoon. That covers most of what we need before we arrive.

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