The largest zone by housing count and the one with the most two-system, two-story homes now crossing the age where flex duct starts to fail. Katy and Cypress alone are well over 100,000 units, most built since 1995, most venting the dryer through the roof.
Two stories run through this zone. The first is age: Cypress’s median home was built in 2007 and 68% of its stock went up between 2000 and 2019, which means a very large number of houses whose original flex duct is now fifteen to twenty years old and has never been opened. The second is water. Harvey put 5,138 homes inside the Addicks and Barker reservoir pools under water on the Katy side, and the Cypress Creek watershed flooded 8,700 homes in Harvey and 1,700 in the Tax Day storm the year before. A house that took water has ductwork that should have been replaced, and this zone is where that question gets asked most.
Jersey Village sits on White Oak Bayou and has its own floodplain program after 2016. Tomball and Magnolia are the new-build ring along the Grand Parkway, where the duct question is builder’s dust rather than age.
Roughly, on the duct side: two sets of plenums, two sets of returns, two hookups. The pricing page’s two-story row is written for exactly this housing.
No. Flex duct and ductboard that were under water are replaced by a licensed contractor. A crew that offers to clean a flooded system is selling something that cannot be done.
Almost always the roof. Budget the roof-vent price and expect the cap to be the problem.
Say the suburb and what you are seeing. The scope comes back in writing from the contractor who covers this part of the metro.
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