Cooling your home, especially during a hot, southern summer can be an arduous task.  When the humidity is high and the temperature spikes to over one hundred degrees, using a ceiling fan and opening your windows just isn’t a viable option.  Air conditioning, however, is.  It is cited as one of the main reasons why Florida became such a haven for retirees.  Central air conditioning allows you to cool down your entire house without noisy and inefficient window units.  The cool air moves through your house in a system of air conditioning ducts that evenly distribute dehumidified and refrigerated air to all rooms of your house.


Air conditioning ducts are just a few of the many pipes that run through your house keeping it heated and cooled, as well as bringing you water and electricity.  It is best that you leave the installation and maintenance of your ducts to an HVAC specialist.  HVAC stands for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning.  These trained professionals can make sure that your ductwork is properly installed and leak free.  They can also make sure that your ductwork is designed in such as a way as to maximize the natural air flow patterns of your home and therefore make it as energy efficient at possible.

If you are looking to install or replace your air conditioning ducts, you should know that they come in a wide variety of materials that are more or less suited to certain functions.  Preinsulated aluminum ductwork often comes in large sizes that are good for large air conditioning projects, especially factories and large office buildings.  Fiberglass ducts can also be use as large as metal ones, but with the added bonus of being quieter during their operation because the metal pieces are rattling against one another or their supports.  Flexible air conditioning ducts are made from circular pieces of thin metal wire that are covered with a glass wool or polyester fabric.  These ducts are made to connect to larger ducts and then snake through tight corners to bring cool air to each room.

Because it is best to have an HVAC professional install your air conditioning  ducts, it is much more important to know the best HVAC company in town rather than do extensive research on different brands of air conditioning ducts.  However, if you are the do it yourselfer, you should first take the time to learn as much as you can about duct installation before opening the walls of your home and installing ducts.  Look for a DIY instructional video, such as the one put out by Ductworks Heating and Cooling, Inc.  Then you will need a lot of specialized equipment such as a Malco cable tie tensioning tool, to let you hang your ducts properly.  Malco also makes a hole-cutter so that you can size your duct holes perfectly.  In addition to you ducts, you’ll need elbows and collars to make them fit all together.  Installing air conditioning ducts is a major infrastructure project, but having a cool home is well worth the effort.

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