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 HVAC Cleaning Across Atlanta
HVAC cleaning in Atlanta means dealing with a specific set of conditions: pine pollen that packs into return-air intakes every March and April, attic temperatures that hit 150°F by June, and duct runs in homes across Gwinnett and Cobb that sag, kink, and trap debris faster than in almost any other metro in the Southeast. CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning has worked these systems since 2013, and every job starts with a written price before a single panel comes off. We photograph the inside of every duct run before and after, so you see exactly what was in there. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll put a number in writing.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Atlanta’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company
Atlanta homeowners don’t need a sales pitch. They need someone who knows why a 1990s flex run in a Marietta attic kinks at the supply plenum, and why a Decatur bungalow with 1960s retrofitted ductwork holds particulate in every joint. We know those things because we’ve opened those ducts. Under the H.A.V.E.N. Standard, Clause 1 is simple: written price before work starts. No exceptions. Clause 3 means background-checked, uniformed technicians who arrive identified by name. Since 2013, CleanRun has served more than 52,000 homes, every one with a documented photo record when the crew left.
Tomas Reyes leads our Atlanta operations. He doesn’t run a franchise. CleanRun is independently owned and operated, and our scheduling is coordinated from our Atlanta office, with crews serving the metro locally. When you call, you talk to a person who can actually schedule the work. When we arrive, we show you what we found before we do anything about it.
Our HVAC Cleaning Services in Atlanta
Evaporator Coil Cleaning
The evaporator coil is where your system does its real work, pulling heat and humidity out of the air. In Atlanta, with cooling seasons running May through September and humidity sitting above 70% for weeks at a time, that coil stays wet. Wet plus pollen equals biofilm. A typical evaporator coil cleaning in Atlanta runs $180-$340 depending on access and buildup, and we include before-and-after photos of the coil itself in your job record.
Blower Cleaning
The blower wheel moves every cubic foot of air that reaches your bedrooms. In North Fulton and Cobb homes with unconditioned attics, the blower pulls in whatever the return system feeds it, and it accumulates a fine gray mat of fiberglass particles, pollen, and dust. A blower cleaning in Atlanta typically costs $150-$280. We pull the blower assembly, clean the wheel blades, and photograph it before reinstalling. Skipping this while cleaning ducts leaves half the problem in place.
Condenser Cleaning
Your outdoor condenser sits in one of the densest tree canopies of any major U.S. city. Cottonwood, oak catkins, and pine needles pack into coil fins, and in Buckhead townhome courtyards and Midtown condo lots, access can be tight. A standard condenser cleaning in Atlanta runs $120-$220. We clean the fins, check refrigerant pressures are within spec, and show you the before-and-after difference.
Air Handler Cleaning
Air handlers in Atlanta attics and crawlspaces see a lot of moisture, and the interior cabinet, drain pan, and blower housing get coated with what the humidity leaves behind. Air handler cleaning in Atlanta typically runs $260-$480 depending on the unit’s location and condition. A unit in a crawlspace off a Decatur 1940s home takes more time than a garage-mounted handler in Roswell. We’ll tell you the price before we start, and the photo record covers everything we accessed.
What happens when you call
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We work on equipment from all the major manufacturers, and when an Atlanta job calls for a new media filter or a replacement coil treatment, we carry products from Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Guardsman. That means we’re not running to a parts counter mid-job because a 2015 Trane air handler in Smyrna needs a filter housing that the supply house has to order. We stock what Atlanta systems actually need, and we service equipment from Trane, Carrier, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, and York. If you’ve got a Honeywell media cabinet or an Aprilaire filter system, we’ll service it correctly without trying to sell you a downgrade.
Common HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Atlanta Homes
- Collapsed flex duct in hot attics. Homes built across Gwinnett, Cobb, Cherokee, and Forsyth between the mid-1980s and early 2000s often have flexible duct routed through attics that hit 150°F+. The liner degrades, the duct sags, and debris packs at the kink. A standard blowout won’t clear it. The sagged section has to be repositioned first, then cleaned.
- Pollen-saturated return plenums. Atlanta’s ‘City in a Forest’ nickname isn’t decorative. Pine, oak, and sweet gum pollen pour into return-air intakes each spring, and when the system pulls that through a 1990s plenum with failing tape seals, the pollen gets pulled through gaps and into the insulation lining. Cleaning the ducts isn’t enough; the plenum has to be opened and inspected.
- Condenser fins matted with cottonwood and oak catkins. In Buckhead courtyard townhomes and along tree-lined streets in Morningside and Virginia-Highland, outdoor units sit under a canopy that drops debris constantly. A crew that can’t access the unit properly will spray from a distance, leaving the inner fin surface caked. The coil looks wet on camera but the airflow never recovers.
- Biofilm and mold on evaporator coils in humid crawlspaces and basements. Decatur, East Atlanta, Kirkwood, and Candler Park have thousands of 1940s-1960s homes with furnaces crammed into tight crawlspaces. The coil stays damp, the cabinet stays dark, and the result is a layer of biological growth that a dry brushing won’t remove. This takes coil-safe cleaning agents and a documentation process that shows the coil before, during, and after.
Pricing for HVAC Cleaning in Atlanta, GA
Here are real numbers for the Atlanta market, not a teaser coupon that turns into something else on a clipboard. Evaporator coil cleaning runs $180-$340. Blower cleaning runs $150-$280. Condenser cleaning runs $120-$220. Air handler cleaning runs $260-$480. A full HVAC cleaning package covering the coil, blower, air handler, and condenser typically lands between $450 and $950 in Atlanta, with the biggest variables being access difficulty, system size, and whether prior cleaning was ever done properly. Every CleanRun job includes a written price before work starts, under Haven Standard Clause 1. No per-vent pricing. No bait-and-switch. If another company gave you a written estimate, bring it. We’ll put our number next to it in writing and let you compare.
We Also Serve Cities Near Atlanta
Our HVAC Cleaning crews cover the full Atlanta metro, including Smyrna, Mableton, Marietta, and Roswell. If you’re in the northern suburbs with a 1990s flex duct system or in an intown neighborhood with retrofitted 1960s ductwork, we’ll bring the same written price, photo record, and 365-Day Done Right Promise to your door. CleanRun serves Atlanta and the surrounding counties with technicians who know these houses because they’ve worked in hundreds of them.
Serving Atlanta, GA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Atlanta 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 - HVAC Cleaning in Atlanta
Your filter only catches what passes through it. Pollen enters the return-air side through gaps in the return plenum, poorly sealed filter racks, and under-sized returns that pull air around the filter frame rather than through it. In Atlanta’s spring, when pine and oak pollen counts reach some of the highest recorded in the nation, a 1-inch fiberglass filter in a 1990s Roswell home with a loose filter rack lets a measurable amount of pollen bypass the media entirely. Once inside the return side, that pollen coats the blower, the evaporator coil, and the first several feet of supply duct. We see it on camera in nearly every spring job. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll show you your own photo record.
The most common reason we find in Alpharetta and North Fulton homes is a sagged or kinked flex duct in the attic that was never repositioned. A cleaning crew that doesn’t inspect the full run will blow air through the kink, clear what’s loose, and leave the packed debris at the restriction exactly where it was. Airflow stays weak because the duct itself is still collapsed. CleanRun’s process includes inspecting and repositioning sagged runs before cleaning, then photographing the before and after. If the static pressure doesn’t drop, we haven’t finished.
Yes, and this is one of the most common missed steps in Atlanta HVAC cleaning. The coil sits downstream of the blower but upstream of the supply ducts. If the coil is coated with biofilm, pollen, and dust, the air leaving it is already dirty before it enters the clean ducts. You paid to clean the pipes but the thing making the air is still fouled. A coil cleaning in Atlanta runs $180-$340, and it’s included in any full HVAC package CleanRun scopes. We photograph the coil before and after so there’s no question about what was done.
This is common along Peachtree Road in Buckhead and in Midtown high-rises. We coordinate with building management, schedule during allowed hours, and bring equipment that fits in a service elevator. We’ve worked buildings where the only access to a shared dryer vent stack is through a single unit’s chase, and we document the common-run condition as part of the photo record. The same written-price rule applies: you’ll have your number before we touch anything. For scheduled access in a managed building, call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll walk through what your building requires.
Yes, when it’s done by a trained technician with the right tools. The risks in a tight Decatur or East Atlanta crawlspace are real: exposed wiring, confined space, and a blower assembly that hasn’t been pulled in years. We don’t recommend a homeowner attempt this. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed under H.A.V.E.N. Standard Clause 3, and we’ll pull the blower, clean the wheel, inspect the capacitor and motor mounts, and photograph the work. The photo record shows you what was caked on the wheel and what it looked like when we finished.
Why Atlanta’s Conditions Demand a Different Kind of HVAC Cleaning
Atlanta sits in the Georgia Piedmont, and it carries one of the densest urban tree canopies of any major American city. That’s the ‘City in a Forest’ nickname, and it means spring pollen counts here rank among the highest recorded anywhere in the country. Weeks of peak pine, oak, and sweet gum saturation pour into return-air intakes across the metro. Add Atlanta’s persistent summer humidity, and you get the conditions for heavy biofilm and mold colonization inside ductwork at a scale that drier or less forested metros simply don’t see. A national HVAC cleaning page won’t tell you that. A Charlotte page won’t either. Charlotte doesn’t have Atlanta’s canopy, Atlanta’s pollen load, or Atlanta’s specific combination of 150°F attic heat and 1980s-2000s flex duct build-out.
Last spring our crew worked a 1998-built home off Johnson Ferry Road in Marietta where the 10-inch flex supply run from the air handler had kinked inside a soffit chase. With a Rotobrush agitation tool we first repositioned the sagged section, then ran negative pressure with HEPA filtration to pull out a dense mat of pine pollen and fiberglass liner fragments. After we cleaned the evaporator coil and blower motor, static pressure dropped and the homeowner said the upstairs finally cooled evenly. That sequence only works if you know to look for the kink first. That’s the difference between a company that cleans ducts and a company that solves airflow problems in Atlanta houses.
One Flat Price, Documented, Guaranteed
The duct cleaning industry has a reputation in Atlanta, and it’s earned. A $79 coupon becomes a $900 invoice once the van is in the driveway. CleanRun doesn’t work that way. Every job gets a written price before any work begins, under Haven Standard Clause 1. Every job includes a documented photo record of every duct run, inside, before and after. Every job is backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not right, we make it right, in writing. That’s been our standard since our first job in 2013. It’s not a marketing line. It’s a clause.
If you need HVAC cleaning in Atlanta, call (806) 606-6902. We’ll give you a written price, a clear scope of work, and a photo record you can actually look at when the job is done. Tomas Reyes and the CleanRun Atlanta team are ready to open the ducts and show you what’s in there.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Atlanta since 2013.