We are not going to print a price on this page, and it is worth explaining why rather than leaving a gap. Any figure we published would be a guess at your house, and the companies that do publish one almost always treat it as an opening bid.
The four things that move the number
- Vent count. Every supply and return is cleaned individually. A two-bedroom condo with six vents is a fundamentally different job from a four-bedroom house with eighteen. This is the biggest single factor.
- Duct length and zoning. Multi-zone systems and long attic runs mean more linear footage. A newer inland house with two zones takes longer than an older single-zone home of the same square footage.
- Access. An air handler in a hallway closet is straightforward. One in a tight attic with limited crawl space is not, and the job takes proportionally longer.
- How long it has been. A system cleaned three years ago is a different proposition from one untouched since the house was built in 1974.
Why we will not price it over the phone
We can give you a rough range on a call, and we will if you ask. What we will not do is commit to a firm number for a system nobody has looked at, because there are only two ways that ends. Either the number is high enough to cover the worst case, in which case you overpay if your system is straightforward, or it is low and it changes once we are in your house.
The second is the one with the bad reputation, and it is earned. The pattern is familiar to anyone it has happened to: a strikingly low phone quote, a technician who arrives and finds three urgent problems, and a final invoice several times the number you agreed to.
A quote that seems too good to be true on the phone is not a quote. It is the cost of getting a van into your driveway.
What a fair quote includes
Whoever you use, the price should cover the whole system rather than a subset of it. Ask specifically whether these are included or extra:
- Every supply and return line, not just the accessible ones
- The air handler and blower compartment
- Individual vent covers, removed and cleaned separately
- A sanitizing treatment
- Before-and-after photographs
If several of those are add-ons, the headline price is not the price. That is the mechanism behind most complaints in this industry, not outright fraud, just a quote for a fraction of the job presented as a quote for the job.
What we do instead
We inspect the system, tell you what we found in language that does not require a trade background, and give you a number. That number is agreed before any equipment comes off the van, and it does not change once work starts. If we get partway in and find something genuinely unexpected, a disconnected run, a collapsed section, we stop and talk to you rather than continuing and adding it to the bill.
The quote is free and there is no obligation to book afterwards. You can see everything included in an air duct cleaning before you call. If your system does not need cleaning yet, we would rather tell you and be the company you call in two years.
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We inspect first, quote second, and the number does not move once work begins.
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