Kingwood is inside the City of Houston — annexed in 1996 over the objections of most of it — and it is the metro’s most-flooded suburb per house. Harvey put the San Jacinto River and Lake Houston into thousands of structures and up to the second floor of the high school; then Elm Grove flooded twice more in 2019, in the May storm and in Tropical Storm Imelda. Between floods it is the Livable Forest: 53% of the housing from the 1980s and 1990s, under pines.
The Harvey rebuilds in Kingwood were gut jobs: drywall out to four feet or higher, floors out, everything dried and rebuilt through 2018. A great many of those rebuilds reused the attic system, because the water came up rather than down and the ducts stayed dry; a great many of them then put a house’s worth of drywall dust through those ducts during the rebuild. Then Elm Grove, Hunter’s Ridge, South Woodland Hills and the Northpark corridor flooded again in 2019. If the house is in one of those villages, the duct history has three chapters, and the first question on the call is which chapters it lived through and what was done after each.
Where the attic itself took water — from a roof opened by a tree, or a second-story flood — the ducts are a replacement, and that rule has no exceptions.
The canopy that makes Kingwood what it is does three things to a duct system. It drops pollen from February to April, which is a filter question. It puts limbs through roofs in wind — the 2024 derecho and Beryl both hit Kingwood hard — and a roof opened over an attic is a wet attic. And it is full of squirrels, which come in at the soffits and chew flex jackets for nesting material; that page is written for this village.
Underneath the flood history, Kingwood is 1980s housing on original flex at forty years, and the honest first visit on a house that never flooded is an assessment: squeeze the runs, photograph the plenum, say which half of the system is cleanable. The villages built in the 2000s on the east side — Kings Mill, Royal Brook — are the fifteen-to-twenty-year case where a first cleaning still makes sense.
Establish whether the ducts were under water either time and whether they were replaced. If original and dry, they are dusty from two rebuilds and forty years old: assessment, then probably a mix of cleaning and replacement.
Seal the soffits first — that is pest control — then the runs get looked at. A chewed run is replaced, not cleaned; the rest gets cleaned.
Yes, the northeast zone.
Ranges by systems and openings, with the licensed items separated.
Five reasons that hold up, six that do not.
Eight things a real job contains, and one household’s account of not getting them.
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