Whole-system duct and dryer vent check with before-and-after photos - you see exactly what came out of your vents
That "$99 whole-house special" is a bait ad - the real number appears once they are in your hallway, or the "clean" is a shop-vac at the register. We photograph the inside of your ducts before and after instead.
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AfterFast, Reliable Air Duct Cleaning Across Arlington
Arlington HVAC Cleaning typically costs between $450 and $900 for a full system on a single-family home, and the work usually takes 3 to 5 hours when it’s done properly. That’s the honest range, and it’s the number we put in writing before a single panel comes off. If you live in a 1970s brick ranch near the Grand Prairie border or a 1990s two-story off Green Oaks Boulevard, your ductwork has been moving Arlington air for decades, and we can show you exactly what that means. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll schedule a cleaning with a camera inspection included.
Key Takeaways:
- Arlington homes built between 1970 and 1995 often carry original flex duct that’s now 30 to 50 years old, well past its service life.
- Attic temperatures above 140°F accelerate liner breakdown, which is why cleaning alone sometimes isn’t the full fix.
- Every CleanRun job includes a written price before work starts and a documented photo record of every duct run, before and after.
- Our 365-Day Done Right Promise is a written guarantee, not a marketing line.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Arlington’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Arlington’s housing stock is specific. Most of the city’s residential buildout happened between roughly 1970 and 1995, and the builders who put up those subdivisions ran flexible ductwork through unconditioned attics where the summer heat does real damage over time. We’ve been cleaning and repairing those exact systems since 2013, and our Air Duct Cleaning team has worked in neighborhoods from Pantego to the eastern corridors near the Grand Prairie line. We know what Arlington attics do to duct liner because we’ve photographed it thousands of times.
Every job we do in Arlington ends the same way: a written photo record showing the inside of each duct run before we started and after we finished. That practice started with our founder, Tomas Reyes, on the company’s first job in 2013. It’s now standard on all 52,000+ homes we’ve served. We don’t ask you to trust that the work was done. We hand you the evidence.
Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before they arrive. They operate under the H.A.V.E.N. Standard, and our Air Duct Cleaning in Arlington crews know the difference between a dirty duct and a duct that’s failing structurally. That distinction matters more in Arlington than almost anywhere else we work.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Arlington
We offer six core services in Arlington, each scoped and priced in writing before work begins. Here’s how they apply to the homes we see across the city.
Residential Duct Cleaning
Most Arlington homes we clean are single-family houses with between 10 and 18 duct runs. The work is source removal: we connect a HEPA-filtered negative-pressure machine to the trunk line, agitate the interior walls of each run, and pull the debris out of the system rather than blowing it around. In Arlington’s older subdivisions, that debris is typically a mix of dust, insulation fibers from degraded flex liner, and pollen from the mountain cedar and oak seasons that hit this part of the Southern Plains corridor hard.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
Arlington’s commercial buildings along Cooper Street and around the Entertainment District get the same treatment, scaled to larger plenums and longer runs. We schedule commercial work around your operating hours, and the written scope covers every register, return, and trunk line by name. No vague “full cleaning” line item. You get a map of what was cleaned and the photos to confirm it.
Supply Duct Cleaning
This is the work most Arlington homes actually need. Supply ducts carry conditioned air from the air handler to your registers, and if the flex liner has degraded, those supply runs are effectively sanding insulation particles into your breathing air. We clean supply runs with agitation tools sized to the duct diameter, then run the camera through to verify the liner is still intact. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you and show you the image. Cleaning a failed liner doesn’t solve the problem, and we won’t pretend it does.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts pull air back to the system, and in many Arlington homes, they’re pulling from unconditioned attic air because a connection has come loose at the trunk line. That means your system is bypassing the filter entirely. We clean return runs and inspect every connection point. When we find a gap, we seal it with mastic and document the repair with before and after photos. That’s Haven Standard Clause 4: Documented Scope and Completion.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
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We use professional-grade equipment you can look up independently: Rotobrush agitation systems, Nikro negative-air machines, and Abatement Technologies HEPA filtration. These are trade-standard tools, and we name them on the page because you should know what’s running before you agree to a price. Our crews also carry Guardsman antimicrobial treatments for the sanitizing work some Arlington homeowners request after a cleaning reveals biological growth. No invented performance claims, just the tools and chemicals we actually use, on the record.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Arlington Homes
- Crumbled flex-duct liners in 140°F attics. Arlington’s boom-era homes put ductwork in unconditioned attic space, and three decades of thermal cycling turns the inner liner of flexible duct into powder. That powder then circulates through the living space every time the air handler runs. Cleaning removes it temporarily, but the run needs sealing or replacement to stop it at the source.
- Disconnected branch runs at the trunk line. The adhesive at trunk-line connections fails after enough 140°F summers, and the branch simply separates. Your system then pulls attic air, unfiltered, straight into the supply. A cleaning that doesn’t catch this leaves the home with dirty air no matter how thorough the work was on the connected runs.
- Partially collapsed flex runs. We see this constantly in the subdivisions east of Collins Street and south of I-20. A kinked or crushed flex run restricts airflow and creates pressure differentials that pull insulation fibers directly into the supply air. The camera inspection shows it immediately.
- Post-Winter Storm Uri contamination. February 2021 pushed systems to maximum capacity for days, and the pressure differentials pulled outdoor debris and attic rodent activity into ductwork that had never been inspected. Many Arlington homeowners had no idea anything was in the ducts until a camera finally went through.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Arlington, VA
Here are the numbers we quote in writing for Arlington homes, based on square footage, number of runs, and system accessibility.
| Service | Typical Arlington Price Range |
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| Full system cleaning (single-family home, 10-18 runs) | $450-$900 |
| Supply duct cleaning only | $250-$450 |
| Return duct cleaning only | $180-$350 |
| Video inspection (standalone or added to cleaning) | $150-$300 |
| Flex-duct branch replacement (per run, including material) | $120-$280 |
| Trunk-line sealing at connections | $40-$90 per takeoff |
The range accounts for how much damage the attic heat has already done. A home near Veterans Park with intact liner just needs a thorough cleaning. A late-1970s ranch east of Collins Street might need cleaning plus liner replacement on six branch runs plus sealing at the trunk. That’s not an upsell; it’s the difference between cleaning dust and fixing the thing that’s making the dust. We put the number in writing before any work starts, in line with Haven Standard Clause 1. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written estimate, or bring a competitor’s written quote and we’ll put our number next to it, free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Arlington
Our Arlington crews cover the full city limits, and we regularly run jobs in Alexandria, Annandale, Burke, and Oakton. If you’re in one of those areas, the same written-pricing and photo-record standard applies. Same equipment, same documented proof, same 365-Day Done Right Promise.
Serving Arlington, VA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Arlington area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Air Duct Cleaning in Arlington
Homes built in the 1980s in Arlington almost universally place flexible ductwork in unconditioned attic spaces where summer temperatures exceed 140°F, and that heat breaks down the inner liner of the flex duct over time. A home built in 2015 with ducts in conditioned space simply doesn’t have the same failure mode. Arlington’s 30-50-year-old duct liner sheds particles continuously, so cleaning removes the accumulation but the underlying degradation means the system needs inspection and often repair. Call (806) 606-6902 for an exact quote; we include a camera inspection with every cleaning estimate.
In the late-1970s and early-1980s subdivisions east of Collins Street near the Grand Prairie border, we find galvanized sheet-metal trunk lines that are still intact, but flex-duct branch runs attached to them with inner liners that have crumbled to powder from decades of attic heat. The trunk survives; the branches don’t. That mixed system is specific to Arlington’s eastern corridors, and generic duct cleaning companies without local experience often miss the liner failure because they never run a camera. We do, and we include the photos in your job record.
Sometimes, but not always. If the smell is coming from accumulated dust and debris sitting inside the duct runs, a proper source-removal cleaning removes the material and the odor goes with it. If the smell is coming from a disconnected branch run pulling actual attic air into the system, cleaning the connected ducts won’t fix it; the gap has to be sealed at the trunk line. Our camera inspection identifies which situation you have before we quote the work. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll walk you through what we’re seeing.
Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 pushed many Arlington systems to maximum capacity for days under conditions they were never designed for, and the pressure differentials pulled outdoor debris and, in some cases, attic rodent activity into ductwork that had never been inspected. Since then, our techs have found debris loads in Arlington systems that are measurably higher than the pre-storm baseline. A cleaning with a camera inspection is the only way to know what’s actually in there.
Yes. Our cleaning methods follow NADCA (National Air Duct Cleaners Association) source-removal standards: negative-pressure extraction with HEPA filtration, mechanical agitation of duct walls, and post-cleaning inspection. We don’t do “blow and go” work where the debris is simply loosened and left to resettle. Every Arlington job ends with a photo record so you can see the before and after yourself. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written estimate, or bring a competitor’s quote and we’ll put our number next to it in writing, free.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Arlington under the Haven Standard.