Ductwork Services in Southlake, TX

How Much Does Ductwork Cost in Southlake?

Ductwork in Southlakestarts at $85 for a static pressure diagnostic (waived with any repair). Most homes need 2-5 targeted repairs, not a full duct redesign. We're flat-rate, which means the price quoted before we start is the price you pay at the end. Frosty Club members save 10-15% on every job.

Why SouthlakeHomeowners Trust Frosty's for Ductwork

Southlake ductwork problems are different from what we see in older DFW neighborhoods. The 1990s-2010s housing stock in Carillon, Timarron, and Shady Oaks has insulated flex and rigid trunk lines that were installed to current code, so we don't typically see the catastrophic 30%+ leakage rates I find in 1970s-80s homes. What we DO find in Southlake is undersized upstairs ductwork on 2-story homes, crushed flex runs in finished attics, return drops that are too small for the air handler's CFM, and damper-and-zoning configurations that were designed by the lowest bidder. Static pressure on most Southlake systems we first visit runs 0.7-1.0 inches of water column — too high. Healthy is under 0.5. That extra pressure burns out blower motors years early.

The most common Southlake ductwork call is the 2-story upstairs comfort problem — master suite over the garage stays 76°F while downstairs sits at 72°F. People assume it's an AC capacity issue and call for a bigger system; it's almost never that. It's an airflow problem caused by undersized upstairs supply runs, an undersized return on the upstairs zone, or a zoning damper that's been working against the duct design for years. We size duct runs using Manual D (the ACCA standard) and often have to add a supply run or upsize a return on the upstairs zone to balance the system. No amount of zoning logic will fix a fundamentally undersized duct.

Every ductwork job in Southlake includes a before-and-after static pressure reading per system — we measure what your blower is fighting against before we start and prove the improvement after we're done. Duct sealing is $350 flat ($297.50 for members), duct replacement is $700 per run ($595 for members), plenum replacement is $1,200-$1,500. Most Southlake homes have 12-20 supply runs across multiple zones, so a full multi-system duct replacement can run $8,000-$15,000 — but we usually don't need to replace everything, just the problem runs and the trunk transitions. Honest scope, flat-rate price.

Neighborhoods we serve in Southlake: Southlake Town Square, Carillon, Timarron, Shady Oaks