Whole-system duct and dryer vent check with before-and-after photos - you see exactly what came out of your vents
That "$99 whole-house special" is a bait ad - the real number appears once they are in your hallway, or the "clean" is a shop-vac at the register. We photograph the inside of your ducts before and after instead.
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AfterFast, Reliable Air Duct Cleaning Across Fort Myers
Air duct cleaning in Fort Myers typically runs $350-$850 for a complete residential system, with most homes falling in the $450-$650 range depending on system size and whether we find post-Hurricane Ian contamination that needs remediation. We’re Morton’s Air Duct Cleaning, and our crews have been driving I-75 from our Miami office to Fort Myers homes since 2005. We know the difference between a routine clean and the duct remediation this market actually needs. Call (323) 918-4345 for a free written estimate before any work starts.
Why Morton’s Air Duct Cleaning Is Fort Myers’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Fort Myers homeowners call us back because we treat their houses like we would our own. Our technicians wear shoe covers and lay drop cloths before stepping past the front door, and we’ve built our reputation on showing up when we say we will, with the price already written down.
We answer the phone with a live person, 24 hours a day. Not a chatbot, not a callback queue. When you’re trying to figure out why your Gateway home smells musty after sitting empty all summer, you talk to someone who can actually schedule you.
Every job carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise, stamped on the paperwork, not offered only if you complain. If something isn’t right, we make it right. Full stop.
Our crews know Fort Myers housing stock: the 1970s-2000s concrete-block builds in Lehigh Acres, the snowbird communities in Pelican Preserve, the older Cape Coral tie-ins. We know what flex duct looks like after twenty years in a 140°F attic. That local knowledge changes what we find, and what we charge to fix it.
HVAC Duct Cleaning in Fort Myers
HVAC Duct Cleaning in Fort Myers is rarely a simple vacuum job. Because of Hurricane Ian’s September 2022 landfall, tens of thousands of Lee County homes took water into attic spaces, return-air plenums, and duct runs. Even homes that didn’t show standing water often have flex duct inner liners seeded with mold that sat undisturbed for months. Add forty years of 140°F attic heat degrading those same liners, and what looks like a standard clean often reveals contamination and physical damage that needs real remediation. A typical HVAC duct cleaning in Fort Myers runs $450-$750 for a full system, with post-Ian remediation pushing toward the $850 end if we find widespread mold requiring source removal under negative pressure with HEPA filtration.
Source Removal vs. Surface Wiping
Real source removal uses negative pressure containment and agitation tools that knock debris loose so the vacuum can capture it. A cheap operator wipes your registers and calls it done. In Fort Myers, with Ian-era mold still showing up in systems, surface wiping leaves the actual contamination circulating through your home every time the AC kicks on.
Camera Inspection Before and After
We camera-inspect accessible trunk lines before we start and after we finish. In a concrete-block Fort Myers home with flex duct in the attic, this is how we find crushed runs, disconnected wyes, and return plenums pulling humid attic air. You see what we see. No guesswork, no surprises on the invoice.
Vent Cleaning in Fort Myers
Vent Cleaning in Fort Myers covers your supply registers, return grilles, and the boot connections behind your walls. In this market, we often open a vent cover to find black mold staining on the boot or surrounding drywall, especially in snowbird homes where thermostats sat at 80-82°F through the humid summer months. A basic vent cleaning for a Fort Myers home starts around $150-$250 as part of a larger system clean, or $350-$500 as a standalone service for homes with extensive register-level contamination. The real issue is usually deeper: those boots connect to flex duct runs that may be compromised, and cleaning the vent without inspecting the line behind it is half a job.
Return Vent Contamination
Return vents pull air back to your air handler, and in Fort Myers they draw humid, attic-adjacent air through any gap in the building envelope. We see return boots with mold on the interior surfaces, and the flex duct behind them often shows the same. Cleaning the return side matters as much as the supply side, and some operators skip it entirely.
Supply Register Buildup
Supply registers show dust and debris first because that’s where conditioned air exits. But in Fort Myers, we also find pet hair accumulation, cooking grease films, and the fine particulate that degraded flex duct liners shed over years of heat cycling. We remove and clean each register, clean the boot, and check the duct connection for gaps or collapse.
Trusted Brands We Service in Fort Myers
We clean and service equipment from Rotobrush, Nikro, Aprilaire, Abatement Technologies, and Guardsman, and we stock common filters and components so Fort Myers customers aren’t waiting on Miami warehouse shipments. Our Rotobrush and Nikro agitation and vacuum systems are professional-grade units, not rental-store equipment, and we pair them with Aprilaire MERV-rated filtration setups when we find air handlers that need better protection against the fine particulate and spore loads this climate generates. For post-Ian remediation work, our Abatement Technologies negative air machines and HEPA filtration let us contain contamination during source removal rather than spreading it through the house.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Fort Myers Homes
- Hurricane Ian water intrusion in attic duct systems. Even homes that didn’t take standing water often had wind-driven rain push through soffit vents and roof penetrations, soaking flex duct insulation and inner liners. The mold that followed didn’t announce itself until months later, when musty smells or allergy spikes sent homeowners looking for answers.
- Degraded flex duct liners from decades in 140°F attics. Fort Myers’s concrete-block tract homes, built from the 1970s through the 2000s, routed flexible duct through unconditioned attic spaces. The inner liner material breaks down, sheds particulate into the airstream, and can delaminate entirely. We’ve opened systems where the liner was crumbling to the touch.
- Snowbird vacancy humidity spikes. Homes in Gateway, Pelican Preserve, and older Lehigh Acres subdivisions sit empty May through October with thermostats raised to cut electric bills. Reduced AC runtime lets relative humidity climb inside ductwork, and our October-November appointments routinely reveal visible mold on flex duct walls that owners never suspected.
- Crushed or disconnected runs from attic traffic and age. Original flex duct installations in Fort Myers homes often used support straps that sag over time, creating low spots where condensation pools. We’ve found runs crushed by stored holiday decorations, disconnected at wye fittings, and pulling attic air directly into the return plenum.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Fort Myers, FL
Most Fort Myers homeowners pay between $450 and $650 for a complete residential air duct cleaning that includes supply and return ductwork, register and grille cleaning, and camera inspection of accessible trunk lines. Smaller condos or townhomes with simple systems sometimes run $350-$450. Post-Hurricane Ian remediation, homes with extensive mold contamination, or systems requiring physical duct repair typically reach $750-$850. We do not quote per-vent pricing, and we do not offer teaser rates that balloon once we’re in your home. You get one flat price per system, written down and agreed to before any work starts. That price covers the full scope: negative pressure containment, HEPA filtration, agitation cleaning, register removal and cleaning, camera documentation, and a photo of the clean-up before our crew leaves. Call (323) 918-4345 for your free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Myers
Our crews regularly work in Fort Myers and the surrounding communities: North Fort Myers across the Caloosahatchee, Cape Coral to the southwest, Lehigh Acres to the east, and Estero to the south. Scheduling and dispatch are coordinated from our Miami office, with local crews serving the Fort Myers metro area directly.
Serving Fort Myers, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Fort Myers area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Air Duct Cleaning in Fort Myers
The musty smell usually comes from mold or mildew growing on the interior surfaces of your flex duct or inside the air handler itself, and running the AC can actually spread the spores rather than eliminate them. In Fort Myers, with 60+ inches of annual rainfall and humidity that stays high even indoors, return duct systems drawing attic-adjacent air create continuous mold incubation. The AC runs, but if the evaporator coil or drain pan has biofilm buildup, or if flex duct liners are degrading, the smell circulates through every room. We camera-inspect to find the source, clean or replace the affected components, and address the root cause rather than masking the odor. Call (323) 918-4345 and we’ll pinpoint it.
Yes. Wind-driven rain pushed through soffit vents, ridge vents, and roof penetrations into attics that never took standing water, soaking flex duct insulation and inner liners and creating mold conditions that developed over the following months. We’ve found Ian-era contamination in homes where the living space stayed completely dry. The return-air plenum and trunk lines in unconditioned attics were especially vulnerable. That September 2022 event created a multi-year remediation backlog unique to Fort Myers, and we’re still discovering systems with undetected damage. If your home was built before 2022 and hasn’t had a camera inspection since the storm, it’s worth checking.
A proper cleaning includes negative pressure containment at the air handler, agitation tools to dislodge debris from duct walls, HEPA filtration on the vacuum exhaust, register removal and cleaning, camera inspection of accessible runs, and documentation of before-and-after conditions. The $99 special typically covers a quick vacuum of visible register surfaces and maybe a compressed-air wand pushed a few feet down the line, with no containment, no agitation, and no verification of what was actually removed. In Fort Myers, where post-Ian mold contamination is common, that surface-level approach leaves the real problem circulating through your home. We charge one flat price per system, agreed in writing before we start, and we show you what we found.
We use video inspection cameras fed through accessible trunk lines and register openings to see the interior condition of your ductwork without tearing into walls or ceilings. In Fort Myers’s 1970s-2000s concrete-block homes with flex duct in unconditioned attics, we routinely find runs that have sagged, crushed, or pulled loose at connections, often pulling hot, humid attic air directly into the system. The camera shows us exactly where the damage is and how extensive it is, so we can give you an accurate repair quote alongside the cleaning scope. No guesswork, no exploratory demolition.
We clean and service the air handler, blower motor, evaporator coil, and drain pan as part of a complete system approach, because dirty ducts connected to a contaminated air handler just recontaminate each other. In Fort Myers, with year-round AC operation and the humidity loads we see, the blower wheel and coil often have biofilm buildup that contributes to the same musty smells and allergy triggers homeowners associate with dirty ducts. We assess the air handler condition during our initial inspection and include that scope in your written price if it needs attention. Call (323) 918-4345 to schedule.
Ready to find out what’s actually in your Fort Myers ductwork? Call (323) 918-4345 for a free written estimate. We’ll give you one flat price per system before any work starts, back it with our 365-Day Done Right Promise, and leave you with a photo showing your home cleaner than we found it.
Written by Paul Adeyemi, Owner at Morton’s Air Duct Cleaning, serving Fort Myers since 2005.