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 West Hills
Air duct cleaning in West Hills typically costs $380-$680 for a full single-family system, and most homes in this area need a deeper cleaning than the Valley average because of what happened here in 2018. The Woolsey Fire left a residue in West Hills ductwork that still shows up on camera inspections seven years later, and standard vacuum-only cleaning does not remove it. CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning has been documenting this since the fire. We quote a written price before any work starts, photograph every duct run before and after, and back the job with our 365-Day Done Right Promise. Call (806) 606-6902 for specifics.
Key takeaways:
- Full-system air duct cleaning in West Hills runs $380-$680 for a typical ranch or tract home; larger hillside custom homes with multi-zone systems run $600-$950.
- Woolsey Fire smoke left a dark, oily ash residue in thousands of West Hills duct systems. You likely have it if your home is north of Victory Boulevard and was standing in 2018.
- We include a video camera inspection on every job. Skipping this in West Hills is how crushed ducts and disconnected supply runs stay hidden.
- Every job ends with a documented photo record of the inside of every duct run. You see what we saw.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is West Hills’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We have been cleaning ducts in West Hills long enough to know what a Woolsey-era system looks like before we even open the first register. The homes here, especially the ranch-style tracts built between the late 1950s and mid-1980s, share a set of problems that a technician from outside the western Valley can miss entirely. Original flex runs routed through unconditioned attics. Crushed return branches. Supply collars that pulled loose years ago and have been quietly feeding attic dust into the home ever since. None of that shows up on a standard quote sheet. It shows up on a camera, which is why our crews run one on every single job.
West Hills homeowners also ask us about the same thing over and over: they had their ducts cleaned a year or two ago and the dust came back. Usually the previous crew vacuumed the registers and called it done. That is not a cleaning. That is a visit. Our Air Duct Cleaning team treats the system as a whole: supply ducts, return ducts, the plenum, the air handler cabinet, and the blower motor. And when we find a leak, a crushed section, or a disconnected collar, we tell you what it costs to fix it before we touch it.
Every CleanRun technician is background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before arrival. That is Haven Standard Clause 3, and it is in writing on your job record. We have been operating this way since 2013, with 52,000+ homes served across the region, and in West Hills specifically, the work is informed by what the burn corridor did to the housing stock here. You are not getting a generic duct cleaning. You are getting a crew that knows why your ducts look the way they do.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in West Hills
Residential Duct Cleaning
Most West Hills homes we service are single-family ranch-style or tract homes with 8 to 16 duct runs. We clean every supply and return run using negative-pressure extraction, meaning the system pulls debris out rather than pushing it around. In a typical West Hills home built in the 1970s, we expect to find decades of accumulated dust, pet dander, and often construction debris from past renovations that was never cleaned out in the first place. A standard residential cleaning in West Hills runs $380-$680, quoted in writing before work begins.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
West Hills has a mix of small office buildings, medical and dental practices along Sherman Way and Fallbrook Avenue, and retail spaces where commercial air handlers run long hours. These systems accumulate debris faster than residential ones because they run more. We schedule commercial work around your operating hours and document everything the same way we do on a home: camera inspection, cleaning, photo record. Commercial pricing depends on square footage and duct layout, but a typical small commercial system in West Hills starts around $700 and is quoted in writing after a site walk.
Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts are the runs that carry conditioned air from the air handler to each room. In West Hills, they are frequently run through attic spaces that hit 130°F in August, which means the flex liner degrades and the inner surface gets tacky enough for dust to adhere. A supply-side cleaning alone makes sense if a previous service cleaned the returns but left the supplies untouched, which happens more than you would think. Supply duct cleaning in West Hills runs $250-$420 for a typical single-story home, and we always check for leaks while we are in there.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts pull air back to the air handler, which means they pull in everything floating around your home: dust, pet hair, cooking grease, and in West Hills, whatever the Santa Ana winds push through the building envelope. Homes near the northern hillside off Roscoe Boulevard or Platt Avenue see noticeably higher particulate loads during fall wind events. A return-side cleaning in West Hills runs $180-$300, but we almost always recommend a full system clean once we show you the before and after photos of what the return side was actually holding.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
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We work on all major HVAC equipment in West Hills, and we name the tools we use because you should be able to verify them independently. Our cleaning rigs run Rotobrush and Nikro negative-pressure systems with HEPA filtration, and we use Abatement Technologies equipment when the contamination calls for it. For filtration and air quality work we install Honeywell and Aprilaire media filters and UV units. If you have an existing Honeywell or Aprilaire filtration setup in your West Hills home, we can service it as part of a full system cleaning rather than referring you to someone else.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in West Hills Homes
- Woolsey Fire smoke residue. The dark, oily ash from November 2018 is still inside thousands of duct systems north of Victory Boulevard. It adheres to the flex duct liner and standard vacuuming does not lift it. We see it on camera inspections in homes where the homeowner never filed a claim and assumed the house escaped untouched.
- Crushed or disconnected ducts in unconditioned attics. Original flex runs from the 1960s and 1970s sag, get crushed under stored boxes, or pull loose at the supply collar. The blower keeps running, but conditioned air leaks into the attic and attic dust gets pulled directly into the return path. This is the single most common reason West Hills homeowners tell us the dust “came back” after a previous cleaning.
- Clogged blower motors and air handler cabinets. A standard duct cleaning that never opens the air handler leaves the single most contaminated component untouched. The blower keeps redistributing the debris it has been spinning through for decades. On homes near the Santa Susana Pass wind funnel, this debris load is measurably higher than elsewhere in the Valley.
- Disconnected returns near Platt Avenue and the northern hillside. The hillside tract homes and custom builds in this area have longer, more complex return paths. We regularly find a return register that never actually connected to the return trunk in the first place, or that pulled apart during a past remodel. You cannot clean what is not connected.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in West Hills, CA
You will not get a per-vent price from us. You will get a written whole-system price before any work starts, per Haven Standard Clause 1. For context, here is what West Hills homeowners typically pay:
- Full system cleaning (supply + return + plenum + air handler): $380-$680 for most ranch and tract homes; $600-$950 for larger hillside custom homes with multi-zone systems.
- Return duct cleaning only: $180-$300
- Supply duct cleaning only: $250-$420
- Video camera inspection (standalone): $95, credited back if you proceed with cleaning
- Duct sealing or repair work discovered during cleaning: quoted separately in writing before we do it
If you have a written quote from another company, bring it. We will put our own number next to it in writing at no cost. That is our Free Second Opinion, and it is a standing offer, not a promotion. Call (806) 606-6902 and schedule a walkthrough.
We Also Serve Cities Near West Hills
If you are in West Hills proper, we are already in your neighborhood most weeks. We also cover Canoga Park, Woodland Hills, Calabasas, and Chatsworth. Dispatch and scheduling for this area are coordinated from our Los Angeles office, and the crews who service West Hills live and work in the western Valley.
Serving West Hills, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the West Hills 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 West Hills
You will not know from looking at your registers. The residue sits inside the duct liner, further down the run. The only way to confirm it is a camera inspection, which we run as part of every cleaning. Homes north of Victory Boulevard that stood through November 2018 are the most likely candidates, especially if the HVAC system was never cleaned after the fire. We have found Woolsey smoke residue at the first elbow of the return run in homes that never had smoke damage on the visible surfaces. If you are not sure, start with the camera. It costs $95 and we credit it back if you proceed.
Because the dust is not coming from the ducts you paid to have cleaned. It is coming from a leak, a disconnected collar, or a return path that was never connected to the register in the first place. In West Hills homes with original flex ducting in unconditioned attics, we find crushed or disconnected return branches on roughly one in four jobs where the homeowner tells us a previous cleaning “didn’t hold.” We fix the leak and seal the gap while we are in there, and we show you the before and after photos so you can see the difference between a real cleaning and a vacuum pass. Call (806) 606-6902 for an exact scope.
No, and if a company tells you otherwise, they are selling vacuum noise. The Woolsey smoke residue is oily; it adheres to the flex liner and standard negative-pressure extraction alone will not fully lift it. It requires agitation tools to loosen the film, followed by HEPA-filtered extraction to remove it from the airstream. We use Rotobrush and Nikro agitation equipment on every Woolsey-affected system we clean in West Hills, and we document the result on camera before we leave. The photo record is included with every job.
Yes. West Hills summer highs regularly exceed 100°F, and an air handler running 12 to 16 hours a day is pulling air through the duct system at high volume. If the ducts are holding Woolsey residue, dust, or debris, the system is actively redistributing it through the home every time the compressor cycles on. That is not a reason to panic; it is a reason to get the system inspected and cleaned before another Valley summer. On homes along the Santa Susana Pass wind corridor, we typically see higher dust loads than in neighboring communities, which compounds the problem. Call us at (806) 606-6902 and we will schedule a walkthrough.
It depends on what the camera shows. If the original flex runs from the 1970s are intact and holding pressure, cleaning is enough. If we find crushed sections, disconnected collars, or liner that has degraded enough for the inner surface to be sticky and torn, cleaning alone will not solve the problem. In that case we quote the repair or replacement separately, in writing, before we do the work. We will show you the footage, explain what you are looking at, and let you decide. We never sell a replacement that is not justified by what the camera shows.
How the Woolsey Fire Still Affects Duct Cleaning in West Hills
West Hills sits directly in the burn corridor of the November 2018 Woolsey Fire, which swept through the community’s northern hillside edges and left thousands of surviving homes with smoke, ash, and fine combustion particulates embedded in ductwork. This is not a generic dust problem. It is a chemically distinct residue that settles into the flex duct liner and stays there, often for years, because standard vacuum-only cleaning does not have the agitation force to break the oily film. We have pulled return registers off homes on the northern edge near Platt Avenue and found a dark coating that the homeowner had no idea was there, usually because the home never had visible smoke damage and no insurance claim was ever filed. The HVAC system still pulled in smoke plume particulates for days while the fire burned, and the fans kept running. That is what we are cleaning out now, seven years later.
There is a reason this shows up in West Hills more than in most other San Fernando Valley communities. The fire’s burn path came directly through the northern hills, and the Santa Ana wind conditions during the fire pushed the smoke plume over the tract homes below. Homes that sat in that plume for days, even without flame contact, share a telltale signature that our technicians now recognize immediately: a dark, slightly oily residue, heavier at the first elbow of the return run, that standard cleaning methods leave behind. We have built our cleaning protocol around this because it is the single most common contamination type we see in West Hills. If you own a home here that stood through 2018 and has never had a post-fire duct cleaning, you are likely breathing trace particulates every time the system runs.
Tomas Reyes, who leads CleanRun’s crews, put it plainly on a recent West Hills job: the camera showed a three-inch debris build-up at the first elbow, and the homeowner had been told by another company that the system was clean a year earlier. The previous crew never put a camera in the duct. That is the difference between our work and what most of this industry sells.
What We Actually Found in a West Hills Home Recently
On a ranch-style tract home near the northern hillside off Platt Avenue, our tech pulled a return register and found the telltale dark, oily Woolsey smoke residue coating the inside of the original flex run. We ran a camera inspection, found a crushed return branch and a disconnected supply collar in the unconditioned attic, and after source removal with our Rotobrush HEPA-filtered system, we sealed the plenum gaps and rebuilt the crushed section so the blower motor stopped pulling attic dust directly into the home. The homeowner had lived in the house for six years and had the ducts cleaned once by another company. The camera showed what that cleaning missed. We handed over the photo record and a written warranty on the repair work. That is the standard, and it applies to every job we do in West Hills.
Call CleanRun for Air Duct Cleaning in West Hills
You will get a written price before any work starts, a camera inspection as part of the job, and a documented photo record of every duct run when we leave. If it is not done right, we make it right. That is the 365-Day Done Right Promise, in writing, on every job. Call (806) 606-6902 and schedule a walkthrough. We serve all of West Hills, including the tract homes near Sherman Way, the hillside builds off Platt Avenue and Roscoe Boulevard, and the communities along Fallbrook Avenue and Victory Boulevard.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving West Hills since 2013.
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