Florida ties that requirement to a test, not to a date. A finished house gets pressure-tested, and if it comes in below a set air-change figure it counts as sealed enough that it will not exchange air with the outdoors on its own, which means it must be given mechanical ventilation instead. The threshold is a demanding one and most new houses are not built that tight, so most are required to have nothing at all. You cannot tell which yours is from the age of the house; only the test says. Where the requirement did bite, the usual way of meeting it is the simplest one: a six-inch duct running from a hood on an exterior wall into the return side of the air conditioning, with a motorized damper and a controller opening it for part of each hour while the system runs. That is a deliberate, permanent opening from outdoors into the return, and most owners have no idea it is there.
If your house has one, two consequences follow and both land in the ductwork. The first is moisture. The outdoor air being brought in is Florida outdoor air, so on a July afternoon the system is handed a load of water on purpose and the coil has to take it out again. Where the controller has been set to over-ventilate, or the damper has stuck open, the house runs humid for reasons nobody can trace to anything indoors. The second is what arrives with it. That duct normally has some filtration at the intake, and it is not the filter you change each month; it is the one nobody has ever seen. Missing or blinded, it leaves the return drawing unfiltered outdoor air straight at the coil, and a wet coil is a very effective place for that material to stop. Finding out whether you have an intake at all, and if you do whether it still does its job, is a sensible first move on a newer house.
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Air Duct Cleaning in Jupiter — FAQs
What Jupiter homeowners ask us about air duct cleaning.
What sets us apart
Every Supply and Return Line, Not Just the Vent Covers
Wiping a register cover makes the vent look better and changes nothing about the air coming through it. We clean the system behind it — every supply and return line, one at a time — with a high-powered negative-air vacuum that has HEPA filtration, so the dust and debris we dislodge get carried out of the house instead of scattered back into your rooms. Sanitization and vent-cover cleaning are there as add-ons, and we tell you what each one actually does before you decide.
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Our 4-Step Air Duct Cleaning Process
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The Same System, Before and After
Air duct cleaning clears the supply lines, plenum, and registers of built-up dust and debris. These are real Floriduct jobs in South Florida homes — the same system, photographed before we started and after we finished.
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