Some problems never show up on the thermostat. Dryer and bath exhaust that ends in the attic, garage air in the house, ducts that sweat, vents that roar. We find where each one starts and fix it there.
Concern 7 of 7
A dryer vent that ends in the attic. Garage air in the hallway. A vent that drips every monsoon season. A return that roars. None of them show up on the thermostat, and all of them start somewhere we can find.
Free Duct & Attic Assessment, about 2 hours, with you present. We do not sell or service HVAC equipment.
Four Checks
Seen from above, every one of these starts at a wall, a duct or an opening we can put a hand on. Select a check, or a number on the plan, and switch between as found and corrected.
Check 1 of 4
Check 2 of 4
Check 3 of 4
Check 4 of 4
The assessment finds which of these your home actually has: exhaust terminations photographed, room pressure with the doors closed, surface temperatures and thermal images.
Four Ways It Shows Up
Each one is found during the same assessment, and each has a fix that goes in before the comfort work, so nothing gets buried that we would need to reach later.
1 Dryer vents and exhaust
A dryer vent that ends in the attic, or is clogged and kinked on the way out, dries slower, runs hotter and is a fire risk.
Signs
What we look at
Where the dryer, bath and kitchen exhaust actually end: outside, or in the attic. The dryer duct’s route and length, and the lint packed in the wall box behind it. Bath fans tested for airflow at the grille, because a fan that spins is not always a fan that moves air.
What usually goes in
2 Garage fumes
A garage shares walls, a ceiling and often an attic hatch with the house. Whatever is in its air follows the pull of the house.
Signs
What we look at
Room pressure with the doors closed, to see whether the house pulls from the garage; the shared wall, the ceiling above the garage and the hatch with the thermal camera, where every gap shows; and the seal on the door into the house.
What usually goes in
3 Condensation and humidity
Cold metal in humid air sweats. In monsoon season a bare duct, vent box or vent does exactly that, inside your ceiling.
Signs
What we look at
Surface temperatures of the ducts, vent boxes and vents, where a cold spot is a wet spot waiting for humid air; insulation missing or thin on the duct; exhaust dumping moisture into the attic; and the attic’s ventilation, so moisture can leave the way heat does.
What usually goes in
4 Noisy ducts and vents
A noisy system is almost always a pressure problem: air fighting its way through ducts and returns that are too small for it.
Signs
What we look at
The return grille and return duct against what the system needs, the filter’s fit and how much it restricts, kinked or crushed ducts, and which doors change the sound when they close, which tells us where a return path is missing.
What usually goes in
A higher fan speed pushes the same air into the same bottleneck. More pressure means more leakage and more noise, not more air in the far bedroom. The restriction has to be removed, not overpowered.
The Order We Work In
Step 1
Exhaust out
Nothing ends in the attic
Dryer, bath and kitchen exhaust routed and terminated outside, the dryer duct cleared.
Step 2
Garage sealed
Fumes stay in the garage
Shared walls, the ceiling and the hatch sealed, the door into the house weatherstripped.
Step 3
Cold surfaces insulated
Nothing left to sweat
Ducts and vent boxes sealed and wrapped, so humid air never meets a cold surface.
Step 4
Ventilation corrected
Moisture and heat leave
Intake low, exhaust high, baffles in, so the attic breathes the way it was designed to.
Scoped from the assessment. Only the items the readings support go in, and they go in before the comfort work, so nothing is buried under new insulation that we would need to reach later.
Backed By
Safety and moisture corrections start the same way the comfort work does: with the reading that finds the cause. Which guarantees go into your package is decided with you.
From the assessment
Exhaust terminations photographed outside. Room pressure with the doors closed. Surface temperatures and thermal images.
Each one in your plan, with the photos.
Energy Savings Guarantee
“Your system uses less energy after our improvements, by the amount you choose.”
Sealing the garage separation and the ducts is sized from the assessment’s leakage test.
Also on every job
Separate from the guarantees, which are about the result.
Questions
Proudly Local
From Buckeye to Maricopa, and the communities below.
Not sure whether we serve your home? Call (602) 675-6827 and we’ll be happy to assist.
Free Duct & Attic Assessment
About 2 hours, with you present. Exhaust terminations, room pressures with the doors closed, surface temperatures and thermal images. Then a plan built around this concern.
Knights of the Attic does not sell or service HVAC equipment. Exhaust, air sealing, duct insulation and ventilation are part of the delivery system we work on: the ducts, the attic, and the air that moves between them.
