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 Sherman Oaks
Air duct cleaning in Sherman Oaks typically runs $395-$725 for a full single-family home system, and a crew can usually be scheduled within 3 to 5 business days. The bigger variable here isn’t time. It’s what the camera finds once our Air Duct Cleaning team opens the attic access panel on a 1960s ranch off Sepulveda Boulevard and discovers runs that haven’t been touched since the Northridge quake. If you’re calling from Sherman Oaks, you’re not just paying for a vacuum pass. You’re paying for someone who knows what earthquake-era duct damage looks like and can document the difference between a dirty duct and a disconnected one.
We answer every call at (806) 606-6902, and every job starts with a written price before a single panel comes off. That’s Haven Standard Clause 1, and it applies to every home from the flats south of Ventura Boulevard up through the hills.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Sherman Oaks’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Since 2013, CleanRun has been run under the Haven Standard, and our crews in the San Fernando Valley have opened enough attic hatches in Sherman Oaks to recognize the neighborhood’s specific failure pattern. The post-WWII ranch houses and garden apartments here share a common history: original sheet-metal trunk lines, flex-duct branches added in the 1980s and 1990s, and a lot of hasty tape work done in the months after January 17, 1994. When a homeowner tells us their registers keep blowing dusty air even after another company cleaned the ducts, we usually know what we’re going to find before we climb the ladder.
That’s the difference between hiring a company that services Sherman Oaks and one that just happens to be nearby. Tomas Reyes, who founded CleanRun, built the crew’s training around documentation first. Every visit includes a camera inspection and a photographed record of every duct run before and after. When the job is done, you get the photos. Not a verbal summary. The actual images of what was inside your ducts and what they looked like when the crew finished.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Sherman Oaks
Residential Duct Cleaning
For homeowners in Sherman Oaks’s 1950s-1970s ranch homes and townhouses, residential duct cleaning means more than pulling the vent covers and running a brush. We use professional-grade source-removal equipment from Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies, paired with HEPA filtration and negative pressure, to extract the accumulated debris without pushing it back into your living space. In Sherman Oaks, that debris often includes decades of fine Valley dust, wildfire smoke particulate from the Santa Monica Mountains, and drywall dust from post-earthquake repairs. We document every run before and after, so you can see exactly what was removed.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
The two-story garden apartment buildings and small office spaces along Ventura Boulevard present a different set of constraints than single-family homes. Commercial duct cleaning in Sherman Oaks requires coordinating with property managers, working around tenant schedules, and often dealing with shared plenums that serve multiple units. Our crews are background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before arrival, per Haven Standard Clause 3. For building owners who need to show tenants or insurance adjusters that the work was actually performed, we provide the same before-and-after photo record on every commercial job as we do on residential work.
Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts carry conditioned air from your air handler to each register. In Sherman Oaks, we routinely find the original metal supply trunks from the 1960s and 1970s kinked at attic transitions, or flex-duct collars that separated from the plenum during the Northridge quake and were never re-seated. That means the system is quietly losing a portion of its conditioned air into the attic, and the registers that should be delivering clean air are instead delivering whatever dust settles in the disconnected gap. Cleaning the supply side without addressing those separations just wastes your money.
Return Duct Cleaning
The return side is where Sherman Oaks homes show their age. Return ducts draw air back to the air handler, and in a house that has been standing for sixty years, that air is carrying decades of accumulated household dust, pet dander, and whatever the Valley’s inversion layer happened to be holding that week. A cleaning that skips the return side leaves the system nearly as dirty as before. We treat the return ducts as a separate, documented scope of work, and we photograph the return side before and after. If there is a disconnected collar on the return side, which we find often in this neighborhood, we show you the gap on camera and seal it as part of the repair.
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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Our crews use equipment from trade-recognized manufacturers, including Rotobrush, Nikro, and Abatement Technologies. If your ductwork was originally installed with Honeywell or Aprilaire components, the system work we do is fully compatible with those brands. For Sherman Oaks customers, we keep a stock of the common flex-duct sizes, collars, and sealing materials used in this area’s 1950s-1970s housing stock, which means the sealing and minor reconnection work that often accompanies a cleaning can usually be completed the same day. We don’t ask you to wait for parts to be shipped in from somewhere else.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Sherman Oaks Homes
- Northridge-era disconnections: Flex-duct collars that partially separated from the plenum during the 1994 earthquake and were never reattached. The system has been losing conditioned air into the attic for thirty years, and the registers have been pulling attic dust back into the living space.
- Crushed or kinked trunk lines: Original metal duct runs from the 1950s through 1970s are often dented at the attic transitions where they bend over framing. The restriction chokes airflow, which means the ducts stay dusty even after a cleaning because the air is not moving fast enough to carry particles out.
- Drywall dust from post-quake repairs: The 1994 Northridge earthquake generated a wave of drywall and plaster repair work across Sherman Oaks. A lot of that fine dust ended up inside open duct runs, where it has been cycling through the system ever since. It shows up in the camera as a gray, chalky coating on the duct walls.
- Wildfire and Valley smog particulate: The San Fernando Valley’s bowl topography holds airborne particulates at levels measurably worse than coastal Los Angeles. Each wildfire season in the Santa Monica Mountains or Simi Hills adds a fresh layer of smoke residue to duct interiors. In Sherman Oaks, this is an annual accumulation problem, not a once-a-decade one.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Sherman Oaks, CA
A full residential duct cleaning for a typical 1,500 to 2,500 square-foot Sherman Oaks ranch home runs $395-$725. That includes the supply and return ducts, all accessible registers, the plenum, and a camera inspection with documented before-and-after photos. A stand-alone video inspection runs $95-$175 if you want to see the condition of your ducts before committing to a full cleaning, and that fee is credited back against the cleaning if you proceed. Commercial jobs for garden apartment buildings or offices along Ventura Boulevard are quoted per system based on the number of units and trunk-line access, typically starting around $850. Every quote is written and delivered before any work begins. The number on the quote is the number you pay. If sealing or repair work is needed, that is scoped separately.
| Service | Typical Range in Sherman Oaks | What’s Included |
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| Full Residential System Cleaning | $395-$725 | Supply + return ducts, plenum, registers, camera documentation |
| Stand-Alone Video Inspection | $95-$175 | Camera scope of accessible duct runs, credited toward cleaning if you proceed |
| Supply-side Only Cleaning | $195-$350 | Supply ducts, registers, before-and-after photos |
| Return-side Only Cleaning | $175-$300 | Return ducts, return-side connections, all accessible plenum areas |
| Duct Sealing / Collar Reattachment | $85-$250 per point | Securing disconnected duct collars, sealing gaps, documented repairs |
If you have a competitor’s written estimate, bring it to us. Our Free Second Opinion puts our number next to theirs in writing, and you can compare the scope item by item. That’s what the Haven Standard is built around.
We Also Serve Cities Near Sherman Oaks
Our crews dispatch from the Los Angeles office and serve the wider San Fernando Valley and adjacent communities, including Van Nuys, Encino, Studio City, and North Hollywood. If you’re in one of those areas and wondering whether Air Duct Cleaning in Sherman Oaks applies to your neighborhood, give us a call and we’ll tell you straight whether our crew can reach you in the same week.
Serving Sherman Oaks, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Sherman Oaks 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 Sherman Oaks
Yes, many do. Homes built in the 1950s through 1970s in Sherman Oaks sit roughly two miles from the 1994 Northridge earthquake epicenter, and the shaking loosened flex-duct collars, shifted duct runs, and compromised taped joints that were never re-inspected. A duct system that was sealed properly in 1980 may have been leaking into the attic since 1994 without anyone noticing. We recommend a camera inspection at least once for any Sherman Oaks home of that era, even if a cleaning was done recently. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll schedule the inspection and give you the written price before we arrive.
A video inspection in a 1960s Sherman Oaks ranch typically shows one of three things: a heavy accumulation of fine gray dust and debris, a disconnected or partially separated flex-duct collar at the plenum, or a crushed section of original metal trunk line that is restricting airflow. We show you the footage in real time and photograph the key findings. The documented record belongs to you, not to us. That way you can see the gap or the buildup before you agree to any cleaning or repair scope. Call (806) 606-6902 if you want a second opinion on a previous cleaning.
Yes. The Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills are close enough that wildfire smoke from both areas settles directly into the San Fernando Valley, and the Valley’s bowl shape holds it there. Ducts in Sherman Oaks accumulate smoke particulate and fine ash more aggressively than coastal Los Angeles homes. After a fire event, we recommend a return-side cleaning even if the supply side was done recently, because the return is what pulls smoky outdoor air into the system in the first place. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written quote specific to your house and its exposure.
Most likely because the cleaning skipped the return side, or because there is a disconnected duct collar or crushed section in the attic that no one inspected. A cleaning that only vacuums the supply side leaves the return side holding the same dust it has carried for years. In garden apartments along Ventura Boulevard, shared plenums and multiple duct branches mean the problem might be in a section that was never accessed. Our crews run a camera through the accessible runs and photograph what they find. If the previous company left something behind, we document it for you. Call (806) 606-6902 and ask for the Free Second Opinion.
The signals are usually visible before you ever open the attic: registers that blow dusty air even after a recent cleaning, rooms that never reach the thermostat set point, higher utility bills than similarly-sized homes in the same Sherman Oaks neighborhood, and a faint metallic rattling when the blower kicks on. On a 1960s ranch off Dixie Canyon Avenue, our crew pulled the attic access panel and found a flex-duct collar on the return side hanging half off the plenum, likely jarred loose during the Northridge quake and never re-seated. We ran a camera inspection, documented the gap, then used source removal with HEPA filtration and negative pressure to clean the supply and return ducts before resealing the collar and rebalancing airflow. The registers finally stopped blowing dusty air, and the blower motor no longer struggled against attic back-pressure. If any of those symptoms sound familiar, call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll put the camera up there.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Sherman Oaks since 2013.