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 Troy
Air duct cleaning in Troy typically runs $450-$850 for a full system on a 2,000-3,500 sq ft colonial or split-level, with most jobs completed in a single day. If you’ve just bought a newly built home in Troy, there’s something you should know: builders rarely clean the ducts before handover, and drywall dust, sawdust, and debris get baked into your first winter of heating. Our crews know Troy’s housing stock block by block, from the 1970s colonials south of Big Beaver Road to the newer builds along Rochester Road. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written price before any work starts.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Troy’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Since 2013, CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning has served 52,000+ homes the same way: a written price before a single panel comes off, and a Documented Photo Record of every duct run when we’re done. Homeowners in Troy appreciate that we don’t sell a visit with a teaser price and then expand the invoice once the truck is in the driveway. Haven Standard Clause 1 says it plainly: written price first, every time, no exceptions.
Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before they arrive. We work in Troy weekly, so our crews know the local duct layouts: the long multi-branch runs in two-story colonials near Boulan Park, the finished-basement flex-duct tangles in split-levels off Wattles Road, and everything in between. When a Troy customer calls, the person who answers knows the area and can schedule without routing you through a call center that’s never seen Oakland County.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Troy
Here’s how we handle Air Duct Cleaning jobs across Troy. Every service includes camera inspection and a photo record of the inside of every run, before and after.
Residential Duct Cleaning
Most Troy homes we service are 2,000-4,500 sq ft with two or three floors served by original sheet-metal trunk lines. We run negative-pressure extraction with HEPA filtration to pull debris out rather than blow it around, and we configure agitation tools for the long, multi-branch layouts typical of Troy’s 1965-1995 housing stock. A typical full-system residential clean in Troy runs $450-$850 depending on square footage, number of furnaces, and how much is actually in the ducts.
Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts are where the air enters your rooms, and in Troy they’re often the dirtiest part of the system. The camera regularly shows a half-inch to three inches of compacted dust, drywall debris, and pet dander at the first elbow off the plenum. This is especially common in newer Troy homes where builders left construction residue in the supply runs. We clean supply ducts as a standalone service or as part of a full-system job. A supply-side-only clean in a typical Troy colonial runs $200-$400.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts pull air back to the furnace, and they collect a different kind of debris: carpet fibers, dust bunnies, and whatever falls through the floor registers. In Troy homes with finished basements, return runs often include long flex-duct branches that sag and trap debris at every turn. Return-side cleaning in a Troy home runs $150-$350 depending on the number of floors and branch runs.
Video Inspection
Before we recommend any cleaning, we run a camera through the duct runs. You see what we see: the debris depth, the condition of the joints, whether there’s microbial growth around a humidifier bypass, and where the worst accumulation sits. In Troy we include video inspection as a standard part of every cleaning quote. If you want a standalone inspection before buying an older Troy home, that’s $150-$250.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
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Troy homes carry a lot of equipment brands, and we work on all of them. We service and clean systems with Aprilaire humidifiers, Honeywell controls, and Guardsman components, and we run Rotobrush and Nikro cleaning equipment so the extraction matches the manufacturer’s configuration for your system. We don’t sell equipment. We document what we find and clean what’s there. If your Troy furnace has a whole-house bypass humidifier, ask us to camera-check the bypass duct while we’re in there. It’s a recurring problem in this city, and we cover it below.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Troy Homes
- Builder debris in newly built homes. Drywall dust, drywall screws, sawdust, and scraps of flex duct get left in the duct runs during construction. The builder’s punch list doesn’t include duct cleaning. If you just moved into a new Troy build, that debris will cycle through the furnace all winter unless someone removes it.
- Hybrid duct layouts from finished basements. Original sheet-metal trunk lines from the 1970s-1990s connect to flex-duct branches added when basements were finished. Flex runs sag, trap debris at low points, and need agitation tools configured for multi-branch layouts. Standard off-the-shelf cleaning equipment doesn’t reach these well.
- Bypass humidifier contamination. In northern Troy along the Wattles Road and Square Lake Road corridors, whole-house bypass humidifiers installed on original 1980s furnaces often develop mineral scale and microbial growth in the saddle valve and bypass duct. That contamination feeds directly into the main supply trunk and spreads through every room during winter recirculation.
- Decades of accumulated dander and pollen. Troy’s mature oak and maple canopy produces a heavy spring pollen load, and the long winter heating season means furnaces run nearly continuously from November through March. Each cycle recirculates whatever is in the ducts. In 30-50-year-old systems that have never been cleaned, that means decades of accumulated dander, pollen, and construction residue embedded in the trunk lines.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Troy, MI
Here’s the honest picture for Troy. A full-system residential clean on a 2,000-3,500 sq ft home runs $450-$850. That includes all supply and return runs, both furnaces if you have a two-furnace setup, video inspection before and after, and the photo record. Supply-side only runs $200-$400. Return-side only runs $150-$350. Commercial duct cleaning for small offices and retail spaces in Troy runs $800-$1,800 depending on square footage and accessibility.
What affects price: square footage, number of furnaces, whether the basement is finished (more branch runs to reach), accessibility of the plenum, and how much debris is actually inside. We set the price in writing before work starts under Haven Standard Clause 1. No per-vent pricing. No coupon that “expands” once we arrive. If you have a competitor’s quote, bring it. We’ll put our number next to it in writing, and you can compare line by line. Call (806) 606-6902 and ask for a free, written estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Troy
Beyond Troy, our crews cover Troy and the surrounding Oakland County communities regularly: Pontiac, Waterford, Southfield, and Royal Oak. If you’re in a neighboring city and want the same written-price, documented-photo standard, call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll tell you when we’re in your area next.
Serving Troy, MI - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Troy 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 Troy
Yes, and the sooner the better. Builders in Troy rarely clean ducts at handover. Drywall dust, sawdust, and construction debris sit in the supply and return runs until the furnace cycles them into your living space. The first winter heating season bakes that debris into the trunk lines. We recommend a camera inspection and cleaning before you move furniture in. It’s faster, cheaper, and you won’t spend months breathing construction dust. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written price.
Older Troy homes, especially those built between 1965 and 1995, usually have original sheet-metal trunk lines connected to flex-duct branches that were added when the basement was finished. Flex duct sags between supports, and debris settles at the low points. Standard cleaning equipment with a single agitation tool can’t reach through multi-branch, two-to-three-floor layouts effectively. Our crew configures Rotobrush and Nikro agitation tools for the branch pattern of each Troy home, and camera-inspects every run before and after. The equipment matters, but so does knowing where to look.
It can be, especially if the humidifier hasn’t been serviced in years. In Troy homes with original 1980s furnaces and whole-house bypass humidifiers, the saddle valve and bypass duct commonly develop mineral scale and microbial growth. When the furnace runs, that contamination feeds directly into the main supply trunk. We camera-inspect the bypass duct as part of our standard cleaning. Last week our crew was on Wattles Road for exactly this: a bypass humidifier unserviced since the original install, saddle valve crusted with scale, microbial growth feeding into the supply trunk. We ran negative pressure with HEPA filtration, mapped the contamination with the camera, performed source removal on the branch runs, and reinstalled a properly cleaned bypass. If your humidifier hasn’t been opened in years, have it checked.
For most Troy homes, every 3-5 years is reasonable. Homes with pets, allergy-sensitive residents, or smokers should consider every 2-3 years. The concrete factor in Troy is the heating season: furnaces run nearly continuously from November through March, so whatever is in your ducts gets recirculated through every room thousands of times per winter. The mature oak and maple canopy adds a heavy spring pollen load that settles into return runs. If you’ve never had the ducts cleaned and your home was built before 1995, the first cleaning will remove decades of accumulated material. After that, 3-5 years keeps the system breathing.
You can clean only the supply ducts, and we offer that as a standalone service. In a split-level Troy home, supply-side cleaning runs $200-$400 depending on the number of floors and branch runs. But here’s why we recommend doing both: supply and return ducts collect different debris, and they share the same air loop through the furnace. If you clean the supply runs but leave the return runs full of carpet fibers and years of dust, the furnace pulls that back through the system within weeks. We’ll give you a camera view of both sides before you decide, so you can see what’s actually in each. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written price on either scope.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Troy since 2013.