Whole-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.
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AfterFast, Reliable Duct Sealing Across Lady Lake
Duct sealing in Lady Lake typically runs $400 – $900 for a whole-home system, with most jobs completed in a single visit and priced in writing before we start. We’re the Duct Sealing team at Hollis Air Duct Cleaning, and we’ve been driving the back roads around Lady Lake since 2004. Dispatch and scheduling run through our Miami office, but the crews serving Lady Lake live and work in this corridor. We know the difference between a ranch off Griffin Avenue and a manufactured home near County Road 466, and we know both need different approaches to duct sealing than a standard suburban tract house.
Lady Lake’s not a cookie-cutter market. You’ve got The Villages sprawling across the northeast, rural properties with long gravel drives to the west, and seasonal residents who lock up in May and don’t return until October. That mix creates duct problems you won’t find in Orlando or Tampa. Our technicians carry mastic, foil tape, and mechanical fasteners for fiberboard plenums, not just the spray sealant every national chain pushes. Call (361) 326-5060 and we’ll give you a written price before any work starts.
Why Hollis Air Duct Cleaning Is Lady Lake’s Preferred Duct Sealing Company
We’ve built our reputation in Lady Lake on showing up inside the window and leaving the site clean. The Garrison Standard demands it, and Roy Castellanos enforces it on every job. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed. You know who’s walking into your home before they arrive.
Lady Lake customers call us back because the price on the invoice matches the price on the estimate. No per-vent add-ons, no “we found another problem” upsells once the van is in your driveway. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers every seal and repair in writing. If it fails, we return and make it right at no charge, including a free second visit.
Phones are answered by a live person, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No voicemail loops, no callback queues, no waiting until Monday while your A/C blows attic air into the living room.
Duct Repair in Lady Lake
Duct Repair in Lady Lake means fixing the physical damage that flexible ductwork and fiberboard systems accumulate after decades in Florida attics. We see collapsed flex runs, separated joints at the air handler, and cracked collars on manufactured-home plenums. A typical duct repair in Lady Lake runs $250 – $600 depending on accessibility and how many sections need replacement versus sealing.
Collapsed Flex and Kinked Runs
In The Villages, 1990s and early-2000s flex duct was strung tight across trusses that have shifted in the heat. Sections sag between hangers, kink at bends, and flatten where they cross insulation. Tape over a kink seals nothing. We cut out the damaged section, install a proper support, and splice in new flex with mechanical bands and mastic.
Cracked Fiberboard Plenums
Manufactured homes around Lady Lake often use fiberboard distribution boxes that crack at the collar where round duct meets square plenum. A standard tape seal won’t hold the pressure cycle after cycle. We reinforce the joint with a metal takeoff, seal with mastic, and sometimes add a mechanical draw band for homes that run the blower continuously.
Air Duct Sealing in Lady Lake
Air Duct Sealing in Lady Lake closes the gaps and leaks that let conditioned air escape into your attic or crawl space, and let hot, humid attic air get sucked into your return. We seal with mastic and foil tape on accessible joints, and we pressure-test after to confirm the seal holds. A typical air duct sealing job in Lady Lake runs $400 – $900 for a whole-home system, with larger Villages homes or multi-zone systems at the higher end.
Mastic Sealing Versus Spray Sealant
We use brush-applied mastic and reinforced foil tape on every joint we can reach. Mastic stays flexible for years, fills irregular gaps, and doesn’t off-gas like some aerosol sealants. For remote trunk lines behind drywall, we evaluate whether access or aerosol sealing makes sense. We explain the choice and price both paths in writing before we start.
Post-Seal Pressure Testing
After sealing, we run a static pressure test to measure how much air your blower is actually moving through the ducts versus losing to leaks. Lady Lake’s humid climate means your A/C runs harder and longer than systems up north. A sealed duct system drops that load, cuts run times, and reduces the moisture that mold needs to colonize flex duct walls.
Trusted Brands We Service in Lady Lake
We stock parts and filtration products from Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Abatement Technologies for Lady Lake customers, so most repairs don’t wait on shipping. Our equipment roster includes Nikro negative-air machines and Rotobrush rotary systems. When we seal a duct system in a Villages home and the customer wants upgraded filtration for the mold spores we just removed, we can install a Honeywell or Aprilaire media cabinet on the same visit. That integration matters in Lady Lake, where the cooling season runs ten months and filtration load is constant.
Common Duct Sealing Problems We See in Lady Lake Homes
- Flex duct sagging and kinking in 1990s-2000s Villages attic runs. The original installers strung flex tight across trusses that have shifted in two decades of attic heat. Sections sag between hangers, and sealing tape bridges a collapsed section instead of restoring airflow. We cut out the damage and support it properly.
- Seasonal vacancy letting mold colonize duct walls. Six-plus months with the A/C off creates a perfect breeding ground inside flex ducts. A quick seal job without source removal traps those spores inside for the next return season. We clean before we seal, every time.
- Fiberboard duct joints and manufactured-home plenum connections cracking at the collar. The takeoff separates from the plenum under pressure cycling, and a standard seal won’t hold without reinforcing the connection. We add mechanical support, then seal.
- Unpaved road and open-land dust loading the return side. Rural Lady Lake properties near dirt roads pull fine grit through every leak in the return ductwork. Sealing a leaky system without source removal just recirculates that grit past the blower motor and through your living space.
Pricing for Duct Sealing in Lady Lake, FL
A typical whole-home duct sealing in Lady Lake runs $400 – $900. Single-zone ranch homes with accessible attics usually fall at the lower end. Larger Villages homes with multiple air handlers, remote trunk lines, or extensive flex replacement push toward the higher end. Duct repair, when needed instead of or alongside sealing, runs $250 – $600.
What moves the price: how much of the system we can reach without cutting access panels, whether flex sections need replacement versus sealing, and whether we find mold that requires source removal before sealing. We price every job in writing before any work starts. The number on the estimate is the number on the invoice. No per-vent pricing, no add-ons at the door, no bait-and-switch. Call (361) 326-5060 for a free estimate. We’ll look at your system, explain what we found, and give you a flat price you can take to another company for comparison.
We Also Serve Cities Near Lady Lake
Our crews cover Lady Lake and the surrounding corridor, including Fruitland Park to the southeast, Leesburg to the south, Tavares to the east, and Eustis to the northeast. Same written pricing, same 365-Day Done Right Promise, same background-checked technicians at every stop.
Serving Lady Lake, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Lady Lake 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 Lady Lake
Every three to four years for rural Lady Lake homes on dirt or gravel roads, not the generic five-to-seven figure you’ll see elsewhere. The dust loading is real. Fine grit pulls through return leaks, past the blower, and deposits in the supply runs. Sealing without cleaning just traps that grit; cleaning without sealing just lets it back in. We assess both on every visit. Call (361) 326-5060 and we’ll schedule an inspection.
Yes, but only if you clean before you seal. The musty smell comes from mold that grew in flex duct during months of A/C-off vacancy. Sealing over mold traps spores inside; they’ll blow out next season regardless of how tight the joints are. We remove the source, HEPA-filter the system under negative pressure, then seal so humid attic air can’t reintroduce moisture. Call (361) 326-5060 for a post-vacancy inspection.
We can seal sections that are intact but leaking at joints. Flex duct that’s collapsed, kinked, or delaminating on the inner liner needs replacement. In our field experience, about sixty percent of 1990s Villages flex we inspect has at least one section that needs cutting out. We show you the camera footage, mark the damaged runs, and price replacement and sealing separately so you decide. Call (361) 326-5060 for a camera inspection.
Duct repair fixes physical damage: cracked fiberboard, collapsed flex, separated collars. Duct sealing closes gaps where intact ductwork leaks air. Manufactured homes in Lady Lake often need both. The plenum-to-duct connection cracks from vibration and thermal cycling; that’s repair. The joint between two intact flex sections leaks pressure; that’s sealing. We inspect, explain which your system needs, and price both in writing before starting. Call (361) 326-5060 for an assessment.
Yes, if it’s connected to your main HVAC or has its own air handler. Rural Lady Lake properties often have shop buildings, guest cottages, or garage workshops with duct extensions that were added after the main home was built. These runs are frequently unsealed, uninsulated, and buried in attic insulation where leaks go unnoticed. We pressure-test the entire system, including outbuilding branches, and mark every leak we find. Call (361) 326-5060 to include outbuilding ducts in your inspection.
We were called out to a ranch home off Griffin Avenue in The Villages where the snowbirds had just returned for the season and the first A/C cycle pushed a musty plume out of every register. A camera inspection showed collapsed flex in the trunk and three pulled-apart joints near the air handler; we did source removal under negative pressure with HEPA filtration, resealed the joints with mastic and foil tape, and re-balanced the supply and return ducts so the blower motor wasn’t fighting a leaking static pressure drop.
Lady Lake’s flex-duct problem is unusually concentrated. Most of the housing is 1980s-2000s ranch and manufactured homes in The Villages and surrounding 55+ communities, where fiberboard and flex runs degrade fast under attic heat, and seasonal snowbird vacancy lets mold colonize duct walls before the first cooling cycle back. We’ve built our entire approach to Lady Lake around that reality. We don’t sell generic duct sealing. We seal systems that have been specifically damaged by this climate, this housing stock, and this pattern of seasonal use.
Ready to stop losing conditioned air to your attic? Call Hollis Air Duct Cleaning at (361) 326-5060 for a free estimate. We’ll arrive inside the quoted window, inspect your system with a camera, and give you a written flat price before any work starts. Every seal and repair is covered by our 365-Day Done Right Promise: if it fails, we come back and make it right at no charge, including a free second visit.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Cleaning, serving Lady Lake since 2004.