As a result, we often disconnect flex ducts from their takeoff collar to remove sharp or heavy objects before performing traditional duct cleaning. Duct cleaners will also disconnect flex duct to gain access to the main trunk lines without having to cut a ‘service opening’ into the ductwork that requires a patch.

Another approach to cleaning flex duct is to re-support, shorten, straighten, and re-route duct runs to enable cleaning tools to move through them freely.

Properly installed, supported, shortened, and straightened flex duct facilitates better airflow performance and safer execution of duct cleaning techniques!

Even dryer vent contractors can help add duct cleaning to your services
The Dryer Vent Guys is a duct cleaning company
working with Southeastern Clean Air Services.

These ducts provide synergistic service opportunities between duct cleaners and duct renovators. How? Because they both can identify duct renovation opportunities. The duct cleaner can see issues typically covered up by the external fiberglass wrapping, enabling them to identify where duct renovation service opportunities are located and required.

Duct cleaners rely on taking photos and videos from inside the duct systems to validate cleaning efforts. These internal duct images provide visual clues about common duct issues such as popped elbows, large air leakage gaps, misaligned or failed duct connections.

Duct renovators can use these inspection insights to know the locations of damaged metal components for replacement, where additional air sealing might be most beneficial, and even where the friction points are within the duct system based on contaminant deposits on internal duct surfaces.

Furthermore, duct cleaners and duct renovators can both identify where insulation repair or replacement may be necessary due to field observations of duct condensation that indicate poor insulation performance.

Lastly, there is the potential opportunity with external metal ductwork of using internal duct sealing technologies and techniques, such as Aeroseal or ISAAC Robotic Sprayer with Hardcast RS-100.

Internal lined metal ducts provide opportunities to both duct cleaners and duct renovators who can improve the installation quality of the internal lining.