Service ยท Scottsdale, Arizona
Air duct cleaning, the whole run
Supply and return ducts, registers, grilles, boots and takeoffs, cleaned in one visit and photographed before and after.
What an air duct cleaning is
Your ducts are the pipework that moves air around the house. Over years they collect construction dust, fine Arizona grit, pet hair, drywall sanding from a remodel and whatever the previous occupants lived with. None of it leaves on its own, because a duct has no way to clear itself.
A cleaning removes what is sitting in there. The system is put under negative pressure so debris travels out of the house rather than into a room, the runs are agitated back toward the collection point, and the parts you can see come off and get washed.
It is not a repair and it is not maintenance on your equipment. If your system is not cooling or the airflow into one room is poor because of how the ductwork was built, a cleaning will not change that, and we will tell you so rather than take the job.
Signs to look for
When it is worth doing
Not every house needs this every year. These are the situations where it earns its money.
You just moved in
A previously occupied house still has the last household in its ducts: their dust, their pets, their cooking. This is the most common reason people call.
Remodelling or building work
Drywall sanding and sawdust get everywhere, and the return side pulls it straight into the system. If the work happened with the air on, it is in there.
Dust settles again within days
If surfaces go grey again a day or two after cleaning them, something is putting dust back into the air on a cycle.
Visible debris at the registers
Take a register off and look at the lip inside. What is caught there is a sample of the whole run.
Pets, and a lot of them
Hair and dander end up on the return side first. Multiple animals in a house move the timeline forward.
The system has never been cleaned
If nobody can tell you when it was last done, it is worth a look. We will say if it does not need it.
The parts we open
Most of the system is behind drywall, which is why it is easy to sell a cleaning that never went past the register. Here is what actually gets touched.
Illustration of a residential system. Not a photograph of a customer job.
- Supply trunk
- The main line out of the air handler, and everything it feeds.
- Branch runs
- Each room feed, including the bends where dust settles out of the airflow.
- Return duct
- The dirtiest part of any system, because it pulls house air back in.
- Registers and grilles
- Removed, washed and refitted rather than cleaned around.
- Boots and takeoffs
- The joints at each opening, where debris catches on the lip.
The visit
How the visit runs
Five steps, the same on every duct job.
- 01
Count the system
Registers, returns, the air handler location and what the ducts are made of. This is what sets the time and the price.
- 02
Cover the room
Floors and furniture are protected before anything opens.
- 03
Negative pressure on
The collection equipment goes on the system so loosened debris leaves the house rather than blowing into a room.
- 04
Agitate every run
Each supply and return run is worked back toward the collection point, bends included.
- 05
Wash and refit
Registers, grilles and boot lips are cleaned, then everything goes back and gets photographed.
The same duct, before and after
Scroll and the wipe follows you. This is the change a cleaning makes to the inside of a run.
Before
After
Illustration of the change a cleaning makes. Replace with your own before and after photographs.
How we work
Every run, not the first foot
A rod that goes in two feet and comes back out has cleaned two feet. The runs get worked to the end.
The return side first
It is the dirtiest part of the system and the part most likely to be skipped.
Registers come off
Washed in a sink, dried and refitted. You can see this part of the job yourself, so it is the part we do not cut.
No equipment sales
We do not repair, install or replace heating and cooling systems, so there is nothing to upsell after the cleaning.
Questions
Air duct questions
There is no fixed schedule that applies to every house, and we will not invent one. Air duct cleaning is worth doing when there is a reason: a move into a previously occupied house, building or remodelling work, visible debris at the registers, or a system nobody can date.
Where we work
We are based in Scottsdale and that is the area we serve today. If you are just outside it, ask: we will tell you yes or no rather than book a visit we cannot make.
Confirmed service area
- Scottsdale, Arizona
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Get your ducts looked at
Send the address and the number of bedrooms. We come back with a time and a price, and the quote is free.
374 7702 East Doubletree Ranch Rd., Suite 300, Scottsdale, AZ 85258