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 Dedham
Air duct cleaning in Dedham typically costs between $450 and $900 for a full system, and the real question for most homeowners here isn’t price. It’s whether the ducts can be cleaned at all. Dedham’s post-WWII capes and colonials still run their original 1945-1970 oil-fired warm-air ducts, now being force-fed by new heat pumps under Mass Save conversions. Without a pre-clean, debris strands in the system exactly when airflow matters most. We’ve worked in East Dedham, the Manor, Greenlodge, and Precinct One long enough to know what’s behind those registers before we open them. Call (806) 606-6902 for a free estimate with a written price before any work starts.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Dedham’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We don’t ask Dedham homeowners to take our word for anything. Every job includes a Documented Photo Record: the inside of every duct run photographed before and after, delivered to you as part of the standard job record. Tomas Reyes founded CleanRun in 2013 on that practice, and since then we’ve served over 52,000 homes across metro Boston with the same evidence-first approach. Your written price arrives before a single panel comes off, under Haven Standard Clause 1. Your crew is background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before arrival under Haven Standard Clause 3. And the 365-Day Done Right Promise sits in writing on every job, not as marketing language but as an enforceable commitment: if it’s not right, we make it right.
Working in Dedham means knowing what to expect when a 1951 colonial on High Street or a 1968 ranch off River Street still breathes through sheet metal installed under Eisenhower. Our crews know the old gravity trunk lines in the Manor, the floodplain basements near Mother Brook, and the mastic-sealed joints on Greenlodge capes that haven’t been touched since the day they were built. Local knowledge here isn’t a selling point. It’s the only way to quote accurately and clean thoroughly.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Dedham
Residential Duct Cleaning
Full residential Air Duct Cleaning across Dedham homes covers both supply and return duct runs, the plenum, the blower compartment, and every register. In a typical 1945-1970 colonial, that means removing years of oil soot, fiberglass particles from deteriorated duct-board liner, and dust that has cycled through the furnace every New England heating season since October. We document each run before and after with camera inspection so you can see the difference between extraction and noise.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
Dedham’s commercial buildings along Providence Highway, Route 1, and the Washington Street corridor carry higher occupant loads and longer run times than residential systems. We clean retail, office, medical, and light industrial ductwork on schedules that work around business hours. Every commercial job ends with a documented photo record and a written scope of work that building owners can file with their maintenance records or insurance documentation.
Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts in Dedham’s older homes carry furnace-heated air out to each room, which means they carry whatever was in the basement plenum along with it. Soot from the original oil burner, rodent debris from the crawlspace, fiberglass fragments shed from failing liner. We use negative-pressure extraction with HEPA filtration and mechanical agitation tools, including Rotobrush systems, to pull debris out rather than push it around. Camera inspection confirms the result in every run.
Return Duct Cleaning
Skipping the return side is the most common failure mode we see in Dedham ductwork. Homeowners pay for a supply-only clean, then watch debris from the return ducts get pulled into the air handler on every cycle. A full system clean addresses both sides. For homes near the Charles River floodplain, return ducts in the basement are usually where water intrusion finds its way in first, so we photograph those runs carefully before any work begins.
Video Inspection
Before we clean, we look. A camera snake through the main trunk and branch runs tells us what’s actually in there: how much debris, what type, whether duct-board liner has failed, whether joints are still sealed. After cleaning, we run the same camera again. You get both recordings. For flood-damaged systems, this video evidence is often exactly what your insurer needs to approve remediation or replacement.
Full System Cleaning
Our full system cleaning covers the complete HVAC airflow path from return register to supply register. Plenum, both duct runs, blower compartment, the works. It’s the service we recommend for Dedham’s older homes because cleaning half a system in a 1957 cape solves half a problem.
What happens when you call
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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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Our equipment roster includes professional-grade machines from Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies, so the cleaning power behind our documented results is verifiable before you agree to a price. When Dedham homeowners run Honeywell or Aprilaire filtration systems or whole-home air quality setups, we clean the ductwork feeding those units so the filters aren’t doing all the work against 60 years of accumulated debris. And when a Guardsman air purifier is installed downstream of dirty ducts, its service life drops fast. The ductwork is the foundation of any indoor air quality setup in Dedham, and that’s where we start.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Dedham Homes
- Oil soot packed into retrofitted gravity trunk lines. Original gravity-furnace trunks in 1950s capes were oversized for forced air, and they’ve been catching and holding soot, rodent nesting, and fiberglass debris for decades. These often need additional access panels cut into the plenum to reach a compliant clean.
- Mold colonization in floodplain basements. Homes near Mother Brook and the Charles River see elevated humidity in basements and crawlspaces where ductwork originates. Water-damaged duct-board liner becomes a mold substrate that cleaning won’t fix; replacement of the liner sections is often required.
- Failed mastic and cloth tape joints. Seals that were done in the 1950s and 1960s are now brittle and leaking. Conditioned air escapes into basements and crawlspaces while dust and humidity enter the system through the same failed joints.
- Supply-only cleaning from previous services. We frequently arrive at Dedham homes where a prior company cleaned only the supply side. The return ducts are still carrying debris, and the homeowner is paying the energy and air quality cost every single cycle.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Dedham, MA
A typical residential full system cleaning in Dedham runs $450 to $900, depending on home size, number of duct runs, and whether additional access panels are required. Supply-only cleaning runs $250 to $500. Video inspection as a standalone service runs $150 to $300, and it’s included with any full system cleaning. Dedham’s older housing stock skews toward the upper end because retrofitted trunk lines frequently need extra access work to clean properly. If water intrusion has damaged duct-board liner or structural seals, replacement of those sections is quoted separately, in writing, before any work proceeds. You’ll never get a per-vent teaser price that balloons after we arrive. Under Haven Standard Clause 1, your written price comes before a single panel comes off. Call (806) 606-6902 and you’ll get that number over the phone from a live person, or in writing before we schedule.
We Also Serve Cities Near Dedham
Beyond Dedham, our crews regularly work in Norwood, Milton, Needham, and Jamaica Plain. Each of those towns has its own housing stock and its own quirks, but the standard is the same: written price first, documented photo record at the end, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise behind every job. Scheduling for Dedham is coordinated from our Boston office, and crews serve Dedham locally, so response windows are short.
Serving Dedham, MA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Dedham 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 Dedham
The deciding factors are what the water touched and how long it sat. If water reached fiberglass duct-board liner or soaked the insulation inside the plenum, that porous material cannot be cleaned to a safe standard and needs replacement. Clean sheet-metal duct runs with no liner damage can generally be cleaned and dried. Our video inspection documents all of it, which gives your insurer a clear picture of what was touched and what wasn’t. Call our office at (806) 606-6902 and we’ll walk through what our camera found, duct by duct.
Many Dedham homes started with gravity furnaces, which moved air by natural convection through oversized trunk lines. When those systems were retrofitted for forced air in the 1950s, the original trunks stayed, and their size and shape make them hard to reach with standard cleaning tools. Installing extra access panels into the plenum lets us get the tools where the debris actually is and remove it under negative pressure. Without those panels, you’re paying for a vacuum to make noise near the debris, not to remove it.
No. Musty smells in Dedham basement ductwork come from moisture, not dust. The Charles River floodplain keeps ambient humidity high in basements and crawlspaces, and old ducts with failed seals pull that moisture in steadily. If the source is wet debris or mold on the inside of sheet metal, cleaning removes it and the smell goes with it. If mold has colonized the duct-board liner itself, the liner sections need to be cut out and replaced before the system is re-cleaned. A photo record of the liner before and after is part of what we deliver. Call (806) 606-6902 for an exact quote on inspection first.
No, cleaning your ducts beforehand does not void any Mass Save rebate, and skipping it is the single most common mistake we see in Dedham right now. New heat pump systems assume a certain level of static pressure in the ductwork, and 60 years of debris in the trunk line changes that calculation. A pre-conversion clean removes the resistance so the system performs to the spec your contractor quoted. At a cape on Tower Street, our crew removed an access panel from a retrofitted gravity trunk line to find it packed with oil soot and rodent nesting debris. That material would have shredded a new MERV 13 filter and robbed static pressure before the blower motor ever ramped to full speed. We used a Rotobrush with agitation tools under negative pressure and HEPA filtration, then ran a camera inspection to confirm the supply and return ducts were clean to NADCA standards, keeping the homeowner’s conversion on schedule.
Dedham’s residential core is heavily concentrated in 1945-1970 capes and colonials that still run their original oil-fired warm-air ducts, whereas Norwood’s housing mix includes more recent construction with newer duct systems. Dedham’s proximity to the Charles River watershed also means more basements and crawlspaces sitting in floodplain humidity. Those two facts together mean we find more oil soot, more failed liner, and more mold-prone environments in Dedham than in most neighboring Norfolk County towns. It’s not a value judgment on the housing stock. It’s just what the camera keeps showing us.
If you want to know what’s actually in your Dedham ducts before you spend a dollar, call (806) 606-6902. We’ll schedule a video inspection, give you a written price for whatever needs doing, and photograph every run before and after so you can see the work for yourself. Free estimates, always.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Dedham since 2013 as part of the company’s metro Boston coverage area.