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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HVAC cleaning in Florence costs between $380 and $680 for a full system on a typical 1,800-2,400 square foot home, with the evaporator coil, blower, and air handler work accounting for most of that range. The price is the least of it, though. What matters more in Florence is that the job accounts for what this city actually puts into its ductwork: diesel particulate from the I-71/75 corridor, jet exhaust from CVG approach and departure paths, and Ohio River valley humidity that turns that mix into something that sticks. Our HVAC Cleaning crews work throughout Florence every week, and we quote every job in writing before a single panel comes off. If you want a number now, call (806) 606-6902.
Most Florence homes we open up have never had the full system cleaned. The registers get wiped, maybe the blower gets a once-over, but the coil and the air handler housing hold years of the same particulate load that darkens your supply vents. That’s the work we do, and we photograph every step.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Florence’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company
We’ve cleaned HVAC systems in every part of Florence: the 1970s and ’80s ranches off Burlington Pike and Turfway Road, the split-levels around Hopeful Heights and the Mall Road corridor, the newer subdivisions near Spiral Drive and along Houston Road where post-construction drywall dust is the dominant contaminant. That spread matters because a 1974 ranch with original duct board and a 2016 two-story with flex runs in a conditioned attic are different jobs with different failure points. The crews we send to Florence know the difference before they open the first access panel.
Every Florence job ends with a Documented Photo Record: the inside of every duct run, the coil before and after, the blower housing, the air handler section. You see the work. That’s been our standard since 2013, and it’s written into Haven Standard Clause 2. The 365-Day Done Right Promise backs it: if something isn’t right within a year, we make it right, in writing, no manager approval required.
Tomas Reyes runs our operations, and he’s been blunt about what separates a real HVAC cleaning in Florence from the shop-vac visits that gave this industry its reputation. “If the coil isn’t cleaned and the blower isn’t pulled, it’s not an HVAC cleaning. It’s a register wipe and a photo opportunity.” The crews follow that direction on every job: background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before they walk through your door.
Dispatch for Florence is coordinated from our Louisville office, with crews staged locally throughout the week. We don’t publish fake response times, but we do answer the phone with a live person at (806) 606-6902, and we schedule by written confirmation, not a text that says “we’ll be there sometime.”
Our HVAC Cleaning Services in Florence
These are the four services that matter most in Florence’s housing stock. Each one addresses a specific failure point we see over and over in this city’s duct systems.
Evaporator Coil Cleaning
Your evaporator coil sits in the air handler and does the actual cooling. In Florence, the coil is the first surface that the diesel particulate and humidity combination attacks. We see coils off Burlington Pike that are caked in a gray-brown paste, a mix of fine soot, condensation, and microbial growth that cuts efficiency and pushes allergens through the supply runs. A complete coil cleaning in Florence typically runs $180-$260 as part of a full HVAC cleaning. The coil gets cleaned on both sides, treated with a coil-specific antimicrobial, and photographed before and after. A dirty coil left untouched means the system works harder and the registers darken again within months, even after a duct cleaning.
Blower Cleaning
Your blower is the fan that moves conditioned air through the entire system. In Florence, the blower wheel accumulates a fine, sticky residue from the diesel and jet-exhaust particulate load that passes through the filter. A blower wheel with that residue on it throws less air, runs hotter, and recirculates the same contaminants you paid to remove. On most Florence jobs, a blower cleaning runs $120-$180, and it involves pulling the blower assembly, cleaning the wheel and the housing, and inspecting the motor. If we skip the blower, the next circulation cycle just re-deposits particulate onto the coil we just cleaned. That’s why we always include it in a full HVAC cleaning, and why we recommend it as a standalone service when a system has never been opened up.
Condenser Cleaning
The condenser is the outdoor unit that rejects heat. In Florence, the condenser’s fins collect everything: grass clippings, cottonwood seed, the same diesel film that lands on every exterior surface near the I-75 corridor, and general Boone County grit. A condenser cleaning in Florence runs $100-$150 and includes removing the outer cabinet, cleaning the fins with professional-grade equipment, checking refrigerant line insulation, and verifying clear airflow. A plugged condenser can push your summer cooling costs up 15-20 percent, and in Florence’s humidity, the compressor works harder against both the heat load and the airflow restriction. We clean it as a standalone service or as part of a full system cleaning.
Air Handler Cleaning
The air handler is the indoor cabinet that houses the blower, the coil, and the filter. In Florence’s older ranches and split-levels, the air handler often lives in a small closet or a garage nook where it collects whatever the house accumulates: laundry lint, pet hair, drywall dust from renovations, and the same regional particulate load. An air handler cleaning in Florence runs $140-$200, and it’s the service that reveals what the duct cleaning alone misses: cracked insulation inside the cabinet, a disconnected drain line that’s been steeping the bottom pan, or a filter slot that’s allowing unfiltered air to bypass entirely. We camera-inspect the air handler on every job, before cleaning, because what we find there determines what the duct work downstream actually needs.
Heat Exchanger Cleaning and Coil Treatment
In Florence’s gas furnaces, the heat exchanger collects a sooty deposit over years of combustion, and in the Ohio Valley’s humid winters, that deposit absorbs moisture and promotes surface corrosion. A heat exchanger cleaning in Florence runs $90-$140, and it’s done carefully, with brush and vacuum, not chemicals that could damage the metal. We also offer coil treatment, roughly $60-$100, depending on the coil’s surface area and condition. The treatment we use is a coil-safe antimicrobial that inhibits mold and bacteria regrowth on the coil surface, which matters in Florence because the condensation cycle here never really stops between April and October.
What happens when you call
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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.
BeforeAfterTrusted Brands We Service in Florence
We service every major HVAC brand in Florence, and we carry replacement filters, coil treatments, and sealants for Honeywell and Aprilaire systems locally, which shortens turnaround when a Florence customer needs something specific. Our field equipment includes Abatement Technologies HEPA-filtered negative-air machines and Guardsman sanitation systems, both of which are name-brand tools you can look up independently rather than a no-name rig that comes out of a van and makes a lot of noise. If your system is a Honeywell, an Aprilaire, or anything else, the cleaning process is the same: camera inspection, source removal, photo documentation, written scope. The equipment doesn’t change. The evidence does.
Common HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Florence Homes
- Crawl-space returns that never dry out. Older Boone County ranches, especially those with crawl spaces under the main floor, often have return duct runs that sit in cool, damp air. Condensation forms inside those runs and has no way to evaporate. We camera-inspect the crawl-space runs on every job, because a routine cleaning without sealing the joints down there simply invites the same mold regrowth within a few months. The fix is sealing, not another cleaning.
- Crushed or disconnected flex duct in homes near the I-75 interchange. We regularly find flex duct in 1980s split-levels off Burlington Pike that has been crushed by someone crawling through the crawl space or attic, or disconnected entirely at a supply branch. A duct cleaning that doesn’t camera-inspect first will miss these. That’s why every Florence cleaning starts with a camera pass.
- Post-construction drywall dust packed into newer subdivisions. Florence’s 2000s-era construction boom left many homes with supply runs that were never properly sealed during construction. Drywall dust settled into those runs, and the first few years of system operation pushed it into the coil and the blower. A cleaning that doesn’t camera-inspect before turning on the negative-air machine will blow that dust through the entire system and bake it onto the coil we just cleaned. The sequence matters.
- Black supply registers that return within a year. Homes near the I-71/75 corridor and under the CVG flight paths show visibly darkened supply registers from diesel and jet-exhaust particulates. We flag this as a Florence-specific baseline during our inspections, because it means the cleaning interval here is genuinely shorter than the national averages would suggest. If the blower isn’t cleaned and the filter’s MERV rating stays low, the register soot returns within a year, and the customer thinks the cleaning didn’t work.
Pricing for HVAC Cleaning in Florence, KY
Let’s put the real numbers on the page. A full HVAC cleaning in Florence runs $380-$680, depending on the size of the system, the number of air handler sections, and the accessibility of the ductwork. That range is the whole system: evaporator coil, blower, air handler, condenser (if part of the package), and the accessible return and supply runs. Here’s the line-item breakdown for a typical Florence home:
- Evaporator coil cleaning: $180-$260
- Blower cleaning: $120-$180
- Air handler cleaning: $140-$200
- Condenser cleaning: $100-$150
- Heat exchanger cleaning: $90-$140
- Coil treatment: $60-$100
These are the prices you’ll see in writing before work starts, per Haven Standard Clause 1. What affects the final number in Florence is not our mood: it’s the duct material, the number of runs, whether the crawl space is accessible with standard equipment, and what the camera inspection reveals. We deliver the written price before a panel comes off, and we don’t revise it upward after the van is in the driveway. The price on the sheet is the price on the invoice. If you’ve got a written estimate from another company, we’ll put our number next to it, in writing, for free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Florence
Our crews serve Florence and the surrounding Boone County area, and we regularly take jobs in HVAC Cleaning in Florence neighborhoods like Hopeful Heights and the Turfway corridor. We also cover Covington, Louisville, and Radcliff. Same written pricing, same photo record, same 365-Day Done Right Promise, wherever the job is.
Serving Florence, KY - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Florence 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 Florence
The short answer is that Florence sits directly under the particulate load from the I-71/75 diesel corridor and CVG jet approach paths, and that load coats your duct interiors continuously, not just between cleanings. If the coil was not cleaned during the last duct cleaning, the black returns faster because the coil is still holding the old contaminant and releasing it back into the airflow. If the blower was not cleaned, the fan re-suspends what’s left in the system. The register soot is a symptom. The fix is a full HVAC cleaning that includes the coil and blower, not just a run of the duct brush. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll camera-inspect the system before we quote anything.
Florence sits in the Ohio River valley, where summer relative humidity stays high and the condensation cycle inside ductwork doesn’t shut off the way it does in Lexington’s drier inland climate. That means the microbial growth inside duct runs and on coil surfaces is faster and more persistent in Florence, and a cleaning that doesn’t address the moisture-driven contamination, not just the loose debris, will not hold. We treat coil surfaces with a coil-safe antimicrobial after cleaning in Florence specifically because the humidity load demands it. We also check crawl-space runs for condensation damage more carefully than we would in a drier market.
Yes, and we see it most often in the 1970s and 1980s ranch and split-level stock off Burlington Pike, Turfway Road, and the Mall Road corridor. Those homes were built with early-generation flex duct and duct board, and decades of attic and crawl-space traffic, general settling, and occasional animal entry have left many runs disconnected at the boots, crushed in the crawl space, or split at the seams. A routine cleaning that doesn’t camera-inspect first will simply miss these. That’s why our Florence jobs begin with a camera pass through every accessible run. The cleaning is what you see. The inspection is what makes the cleaning mean something.
It does. Homes in the flight-path corridor, especially those east of the airport and near the I-75 interchange, draw in jet-exhaust particulate that settles inside the duct system and on the coil. That layer is fine enough to pass through most standard filters, and it accumulates faster than in neighborhoods further from the corridor. We see return intervals of 18-24 months in flight-path homes, versus 36-48 months in the less-trafficked parts of Boone County. The interval also depends on the blower’s cleanliness and the filter’s MERV rating. A dirty blower re-suspends the particulate. A low-MERV filter lets it through. We’ll document the condition in the photo record so you can track it.
Yes, and the key is sequence: camera inspection first, source removal under negative pressure, then blower cleaning. In Florence’s 2000s-era subdivisions, the supply runs often hold drywall dust from construction that was never cleaned out. If a crew fires up the negative-air machine without inspecting first, that dust blows into the blower housing and the coil, where it bakes on. The right procedure is to camera-inspect, identify the dust load, remove it at the source with HEPA filtration, and then clean the blower and coil separately. That’s the order we use on every Florence job, and it’s why we photograph the inside of the runs before we touch them. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written price. Estimates are free, and so is the camera inspection before any work is agreed.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Florence, KY with documented HVAC cleaning since 2013.