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.
Fast, Reliable Air Duct Cleaning Across The Colony
Air duct cleaning in The Colony typically runs $395-$785 for a single-system home, depending on the number of duct runs and how much access the attic gives our crew. We schedule most jobs within 3 to 5 business days, and every visit starts with a written price before a single panel comes off. If you live off North Colony Boulevard, along Paige Road, or down in the Stewart Peninsula, you’re dealing with older flex duct that our technicians know well. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll explain what a cleaning should cost before you commit to anything.
Key Takeaways:
- A standard residential Air Duct Cleaning in The Colony runs $395-$785 for most homes built since 1985.
- Homes near Lewisville Lake often need a supply-and-return cleaning plus video inspection, not just a basic blow-out.
- We photograph every duct run before and after. You get that photo record as part of the job.
- Written price first, every time. Haven Standard Clause 1. No exceptions.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is The Colony’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Most of the calls we take from The Colony start the same way: a homeowner notices a room that won’t cool, a musty smell when the AC kicks on, or dust returning to furniture within days of cleaning. By the time we open the first register, the problem is rarely what they expected. Our crews serve The Colony weekly, and we’ve pulled enough collapsed flex runs out of attics near Lake Lewisville to know exactly what we’re going to find before the ladder even goes up.
Tomas Reyes, who leads our crew scheduling across the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, keeps our The Colony runs assigned to technicians who know these specific subdivisions. That matters when you live in a 1987-built home off North Colony Boulevard where the original ductwork is still in place. A technician who’s seen 50 other homes just like yours in The Colony doesn’t need an hour to diagnose a separated plenum joint. They know to check it first.
We publish our license number on every written quote. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed under H.A.V.E.N. Standard Clause 3. You’ll know their name before they walk through your door. And when the job is done, you’ll get something no competitor in The Colony has offered since we started in 2013: a photo record of every duct run, before and after, delivered with your invoice. Not a before shot from a job we did somewhere else. Yours. Inside your own ducts.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in The Colony

Residential Duct Cleaning
Whole-home cleaning in The Colony means something different than it does in newer cities. Most homes here were built between 1979 and 1995, and the attic-mounted flex duct has been baking in 140°F summers for 30 years or more. We run negative-pressure extraction through every supply and return run, but we also check each run for liner separation while the Rotobrush is inside it. That’s the difference between cleaning a duct and documenting that the duct actually still works. A typical residential cleaning in The Colony runs $395-$685 for a single-system home.

Commercial Duct Cleaning
Offices, retail spaces, and small medical suites along Main Street and State Highway 121 have systems that collect dust on a schedule, because they run constantly. We clean commercial supply and return runs with the same photographic documentation we use on homes. Written pricing applies to commercial jobs too. Haven Standard Clause 1 covers every building we enter, not just houses. We’ll give you a line-item quote before we schedule anything.

Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts in The Colony homes are where we find the most damage. That’s because supply runs carry cold air and sit in the hottest part of the attic. Condensation on the inside of a 30-year-old flex liner is common here, especially in lakeside neighborhoods where summer dew points run higher than inland Collin County. A supply-only cleaning in The Colony runs $250-$420 for most single-story homes. If the camera shows liner failure, we’ll show you the photo before we recommend any repair.

Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts collect what your home breathes in: pet hair, candle soot, construction dust from that 2022 remodel, and fine particles from outside. In The Colony, many original returns are undersized for today’s HVAC loads, which means they run harder and collect more. We clean the full return path and check filter access while we’re there. Homes with a single central return off a hallway often need the return boot resealed at the wall, because sheetrock movement from Blackland Prairie clay soil pulls those joints loose.

Full System Cleaning
If you haven’t had your ducts touched since you bought the house, the full system route is usually the right call. We clean supply and return runs, the plenum, and the register boots, then run video inspection after to verify. In a 1980s The Colony home with original flex, that post-clean inspection frequently turns up joints that have pulled loose or liners that are actively delaminating. A full system cleaning with video inspection runs $585-$785 for most single-family homes here.

Video Inspection
This is the service we push hardest in The Colony, because the failure mode isn’t dirt. It’s collapse. A video inspection before or during cleaning shows us whether each run is still structurally sound. We use a push camera with recording capability, and we show you the footage in real time. If a run has failed, you’ll see it. Not a sales pitch. A camera doesn’t lie.

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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AfterTrusted Brands We Service in The Colony
We run Rotobrush and Nikro extraction systems on nearly every residential cleaning in The Colony, because these machines generate the negative pressure needed to pull debris out of long flex runs. For sanitizing and air quality work, we use Abatement Technologies equipment and products from Honeywell and Aprilaire where filtration or IAQ treatments are specified. We also stock Guardsman access panels for attics and mechanical closets, which means if a return chase or service panel is damaged during inspection, we can typically repair it the same visit without a second trip from our Dallas-Fort Worth office.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in The Colony Homes

- Collapsed flex-duct liners. Original 1980s and 1990s flex runs have inner liners that crack and separate from the wire coil after 30-plus summers in attic heat. The duct looks fine from outside and moves almost no air.
- Lakeside condensation and mold. Elevated dew points near Lewisville Lake push moisture inside cold supply ducts all summer. We regularly find mold staining on the inner liner during what we thought would be a routine cleaning call.
- Separated joints at registers and plenums. Expansive clay soil under The Colony shifts slab foundations seasonally. That movement breaks the mastic seal at register boots and plenum connections, letting attic air and blown-in insulation particles get pulled into the air you breathe.
- Dust return after cleaning. When homeowners tell us dust came back within weeks of a previous cleaning, the cause is usually a return-side leak pulling unfiltered attic air. Cleaning the ducts without resealing the joints doesn’t fix that. We check it, every time.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in The Colony, TX
Here’s what we charge in The Colony, in writing, before we start. A single-system residential cleaning runs $395-$685. A full system cleaning with video inspection and register boot resealing runs $585-$785. Older homes off North Colony Boulevard or along Paige Road with eight or more duct runs land at the top of that range. Homes in newer subdivisions with shorter runs land lower. We don’t price per vent. We price per system, and the written quote is the price. No add-on line items after the fact. If you have a competitor’s quote, bring it. Haven Standard allows a Free Second Opinion on any written estimate. We’ll put our number next to theirs, in writing, and you decide.
| Service | Typical The Colony Range |
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| Residential Duct Cleaning (single system) | $395-$685 |
| Full System Cleaning + Video Inspection | $585-$785 |
| Supply Duct Cleaning (supply runs only) | $250-$420 |
| Return Duct Cleaning (return runs only) | $200-$350 |
| Video Inspection (standalone) | $150-$250 |
Call (806) 606-6902 for an exact written quote. Estimates are free, and the quote you get is the price you pay.
We Also Serve Cities Near The Colony

Our crews cover the full corridor along Lewisville Lake’s eastern shore. That includes Air Duct Cleaning in The Colony and regular work in Little Elm, Lewisville, Carrollton, and Plano. If you’re in one of those cities and your ducts are original to the house, the same failure modes apply. We’d rather show you the camera footage than guess.
Serving The Colony, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the The Colony 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 The Colony

Every 3 to 5 years is a realistic interval for most homes in The Colony, and that’s about twice as often as we recommend for drier inland suburbs. The elevated dew point along the lake shore pushes condensation into supply ducts every cooling season, which means dust that settles inside the ducts gets moist and sticky. That turns a dust problem into a microbial problem within a single summer. We’ve seen mold colonization in ducts that were cleaned three years earlier, because the underlying condensation wasn’t addressed. If you live within a mile of the lake, a video inspection every three years is the most direct way to know whether your ducts are dirty, damp, or both. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll set it up.
Flex duct collapses because the inner plastic liner separates from the wire coil that holds the run open. In The Colony, that’s accelerated by summer attic temperatures that routinely pass 140°F. The vinyl and adhesive used in 1980s flex runs were never rated for those extremes over 35 years. Over time, the liner delaminates, sags, and folds over on itself at bends and elbows. Once that happens, the duct is not a duct anymore, it’s a kinked straw. Cleaning won’t fix it. The failed section has to be replaced and resealed at both ends, and that’s a repair we can quote in writing before you decide anything.
You need it more in The Colony than almost anywhere else in the metro. A routine cleaning only clears debris from the inside of the run. It doesn’t tell you whether the run is still connected, still round, or still sealed. Given the age of the housing stock here, we recommend video inspection on every home built before 2000, even if you only want a cleaning. Our full system cleaning includes it. If we find a collapsed section or a separated joint, we show you the footage on site and give you a repair quote in writing. You’re not obligated to do the repair through us, but you deserve to know about it before it kills airflow in a bedroom all summer.
Musty air that returns after a cleaning usually means the moisture source was never addressed. In lakeside areas of The Colony, that moisture source is condensation inside the supply ducts during the cooling season. If the runs are cleaned but not resealed and insulated, the same condensation forms again, the same dust collects, and the same microbial growth starts within months. The fix is not another cleaning. It’s correcting the condensation point, which usually means resealing boots and plenum connections, and sometimes replacing failed flex sections with R-8 insulated duct. Until that’s done, repeated cleanings are just interval maintenance, not a solution.
Yes, materially. Homes in the Stewart Creek corridor and out on the Stewart Peninsula sit close enough to Lewisville Lake that summer dew points run several degrees higher than inland Collin County. That means more condensation inside supply ducts, and more mold staining on liners when we open them up. Homes in this area also tend to have longer runs from the plenum to far rooms, which means more linear feet of 35-year-old flex that could have failed at multiple bends. For lakeside homes, we usually recommend full system cleaning with video inspection as the starting point, not the upsell. It’s the only way to identify every failed section in one pass. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written quote.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving The Colony since 2013.




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