Air Duct Cleaning in Fort Myers, FL

Snowbird-season homes that sit closed and humid for months are prone to duct and coil mold that we frequently remediate in the Fort Myers area.

Our insured technicians bring NADCA source-removal equipment to every Fort Myers job, placing your entire HVAC system under suction so dust, pollen, and mold are captured, not scattered through your home. Whether you're dealing with a musty AC smell, high energy bills, allergy flare-ups, or simply overdue maintenance, we help Fort Myers homeowners breathe cleaner air.

Lee County housing is still working through what the storms did

A large share of the housing stock in and around Fort Myers has been repaired, remediated or rebuilt in the last few years, and duct systems are the part of that work most often skipped. A house gets new floors, new drywall and a new kitchen, and the ductwork that was in the attic or the wall during the water event is still the ductwork in the attic.

Wet duct insulation is the specific problem. It is sealed inside a jacket, it does not dry, and the growth it supports is invisible until the system runs. Homeowners often describe it as the house smelling fine for months and then not.

If your home was affected and the duct system was not inspected as part of the restoration, that is worth closing. It is not an upsell, it is the most commonly missed item on a remediation.

Half the year empty, and what that does to a system

Fort Myers has one of the highest seasonal residency rates in the state. A house closed from May to November sits through the entire wet season with the thermostat held around 80 and the system barely cycling.

A system that barely cycles does not dehumidify. Indoor humidity climbs past 60 percent and stays there for months, which is all mold needs on a coil, in a drain pan, or on the inside surface of a duct. Returning owners describe it as the house smelling closed up, and assume it will air out. It does not, because the source is inside the system.

A humidistat set properly, or a dehumidifier on a timer, prevents most of this. It is worth more than any cleaning we could sell you, and we would rather you did that than call us every November.

Air duct cleaning in Fort Myers, FL: what is included and what it costs

In Fort Myers the price runs $300 to $600 per system, and the housing it applies to covers a long stretch of years. The bungalows of Dean Park and the older houses off McGregor Boulevard went up before central air conditioning, so their ducts were added later and fitted wherever there was room. Whiskey Creek is single storey ranch housing with the air handler in the garage or a hall closet and the ducts across the attic. Gateway and Pelican Preserve are newer master planned communities with larger floor plans, and a house with a second air handler counts as two systems.

The work does not change from one neighborhood to the next. Each register is counted and taped off, a collection unit holds the system under negative air at the plenum, every branch is cleaned back to the trunk, and the blower wheel and the face of the coil are cleaned before the cabinet is closed. Two technicians spend two to four hours on one system, and you get photographs of the same places before and after.

Within that range, more registers, heavier buildup and an awkward attic or closet push the number up. Growth on the coil or in the ducts, common in a house that sat closed through the summer, is quoted on its own line as air duct mold removal. When the camera shows clean runs and the odor is coming off the coil, a coil and blower cleaning, $200 to $450, may be all the house needs.

Duct cleaning in Fort Myers, FL when the air handler lives in the garage

In a great many Fort Myers houses the air handler stands in the garage, on a stand or platform near the water heater, and that one fact explains a lot of dirty ducts. Return air has to get from the house to the blower, and on a garage unit it usually passes through a box or platform under the air handler. If that box is not sealed, the system draws part of its air straight from the garage.

A Lee County garage in August is hot and dusty, and it holds the car, the mower, the fertilizer and, in a house with a pool, the chlorine. Garage air pulled into the return carries all of it to the coil. The dust coats the coil within a season or two, and chlorine fumes corrode the copper and aluminum the coil is made of, so a leaky return in a garage full of pool chemicals shortens the life of the equipment as well as soiling the ducts.

So on a garage system we look at the return before quoting the cleaning. Sealing the platform and the gaps around the filter is repair work priced on its scope, and it is usually worth doing first, because cleaning ducts that keep drawing garage air buys a few months at most. Moving the pool chemicals to the far side of the garage costs nothing and helps as much as anything we do.

What Air Duct Cleaning Costs in Fort Myers

Job	Typical Fort Myers price
Air duct cleaning, single system	From $300*
Air duct cleaning, larger or multi system home	$300 to $600*
Dryer vent cleaning	$100 to $200*
Air handler and coil cleaning	Quoted with the duct work

* A starting point, not a flat rate. The number moves with the size of the home, the number of systems and what we find when we look. You get the actual figure before we book, not after the van arrives.

Neighborhoods We Cover in Fort Myers

We work across Fort Myers and the wider Lee County area, including McGregor, Whiskey Creek, Gateway, Pelican Preserve, Iona, Dean Park and Fort Myers Villas. If your street is not on that list it does not mean we do not come to it. Call (813) 300-1379 and we will tell you either way, along with the price, before anything is booked.

Air Duct & HVAC Services in Fort Myers

Every service below is available to Fort Myers residents and businesses:

That covers residential air duct cleaning for houses, condos and townhomes, and commercial air duct cleaning in Fort Myers for offices, medical suites, shops and building common areas, scheduled after hours when the space has to stay open. Air conditioning duct cleaning is the same job under another name: the supply and return ducts, the registers and the ventilation path back to the air handler. Where a musty smell or a mold history is the reason for the call, air vent and duct sanitizing follows the cleaning, never instead of it.