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 Fort Lauderdale
HVAC cleaning in Fort Lauderdale typically costs $320-$580 for a full system on a single-family home, with condenser cleaning alone running $120-$190. The salt air, year-round humidity, and long cooling seasons here mean coil and blower contamination builds faster than almost anywhere else in the country. CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning serves all of Fort Lauderdale, from Coral Ridge to Rio Vista to the beachside high-rises along Galt Ocean Mile. Call us at (806) 606-6902 for a written price before any work starts.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Fort Lauderdale’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company
We’ve built our reputation in Fort Lauderdale on one practice: every job gets a written price before a single panel comes off, and every duct run gets photographed before and after. That’s not marketing language. It’s Haven Standard Clause 1 and Clause 4, and it’s been our way since Tomas Reyes established the company in 2013. When our techs arrive at a canal-front home in Rio Vista or a 1960s CBS house in Coral Ridge, they’re background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before they walk in. Our Fort Lauderdale customers tell us the same thing: they chose us because we could show them what was actually inside their ducts, not tell them a scary story.
Our crews coordinate dispatch from our Miami (South FL) office, which means we can schedule Fort Lauderdale jobs without routing technicians from across the state. We carry trade-recognized equipment from Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies on every truck, so a single visit handles inspection, source removal, and documentation. The 365-Day Done Right Promise backs the work in writing, and we’ve been doing it this way across 52,000+ homes since 2013.
Our HVAC Cleaning Services in Fort Lauderdale
Air Handler Cleaning
The air handler sits at the center of your system, and in Fort Lauderdale’s high-rise condos along Las Olas and Galt Ocean Mile, these units often live in tightly enclosed closets with limited airflow. Salt-laden Atlantic air accelerates corrosion on the blower housing and electrical connections, and biological growth flourishes in the constant humidity. We open the air handler, document what’s there, clean the cabinet and coil surfaces, and seal what needs sealing. In a shared duct chase, the air handler is often the single biggest source of contamination feeding every unit on the stack.
Evaporator Coil Cleaning
Your evaporator coil runs cold and wet by design, and in Fort Lauderdale, the ambient humidity means the coil rarely gets a chance to fully dry between cycles. That makes it a magnet for mold, mildew, and a biofilm layer that cuts system efficiency and pushes musty air through your registers. We use professional-grade coil cleaners and HEPA-filtered extraction to pull the contamination off the coil and out of the airstream, then document the result with before-and-after photos delivered as part of your job record. A filthy evaporator coil in a Fort Lauderdale home can drop cooling efficiency by 10-20 percent, and the fix is usually a same-day job.
Blower Cleaning
The blower wheel is what pushes air past the coil and through your ducts, and when it’s coated in years of accumulated dust, salt residue, and biological growth, your system works harder to move less air. This is one of the most common findings we see in Fort Lauderdale HVAC cleaning calls: a blower wheel so loaded with debris it looks like a turbine from an abandoned building. We remove the blower assembly, clean each blade and the housing, and reassemble with documented torque checkpoints. In an older Fort Lauderdale home, the blower wheel is often original equipment, meaning 40 or 50 years of accumulation have built up with no one noticing until airflow drops off a cliff.
Condenser Cleaning
The condenser coil is the outdoor unit’s heat rejector, and in Fort Lauderdale, it’s being bombarded by salt spray, sand, and yard debris every day of the year. A coastal condenser accumulates corrosion and sediment differently than an inland unit, and cleaning it properly means more than hosing it down. We clear the fins, flush the coil with appropriate cleaning agents, check for salt damage on electrical connections, and document the airflow change. If you’re within a mile of the beach in Fort Lauderdale, you should expect condenser corrosion to be part of the conversation, not a surprise finding.
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 Fort Lauderdale
Our techs work on every major HVAC brand you’ll find in Fort Lauderdale homes: Carrier, Trane, Goodman, Lennox, Rheem, American Standard, and the builder-grade units common in 1950s-1970s CBS construction. We carry Guardsman and Rotobrush equipment on every truck for source removal and sanitizing work, and we stock the common flex duct connectors, dampers, and mastic sealants needed for the repairs we regularly perform alongside cleaning jobs in Fort Lauderdale’s older housing stock. Our HVAC Cleaning team can often complete the cleaning and any minor sealing or connector replacement in a single visit, which matters when your Fort Lauderdale attic is pushing 140°F and nobody wants a second service window.
Common HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Fort Lauderdale Homes
- Crushed and disconnected flex ducts in unconditioned attics. Fort Lauderdale’s 1950s-1970s homes were often built with flex duct runs stapled through attics that routinely exceed 140°F in summer. The duct liner breaks down, the flexible core sags and crushes, and we find runs that have disconnected entirely from the register box, meaning your system is conditioning the attic instead of your living room.
- Mold incubation during snowbird vacancies. Thousands of Fort Lauderdale properties sit empty from July through September with systems off or set to minimal cooling. At 90%+ relative humidity, mold colonizes inside the ductwork within weeks. When owners return in October and flip the system on, the first few days of cooling distribute all that accumulated spore load through the house.
- Salt corrosion on metal duct hardware. The Atlantic salt air that makes Fort Lauderdale’s coastal neighborhoods desirable is also quietly eating metal duct connectors, flex duct clamps, and damper hardware. We regularly find damper hardware seized shut or disintegrating in homes within a mile of A1A, which means some registers have lost airflow entirely.
- Condenser fouling from year-round operation and salt spray. Your outdoor unit in Fort Lauderdale never gets a real off-season, so the condenser coil accumulates a crust of salt, sand, and biological matter that inland units never see. This cuts heat rejection capacity, drives up runtime, and shortens the compressor’s life, and no amount of thermostat adjustment fixes it.
Pricing for HVAC Cleaning in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A full HVAC cleaning for a standard single-family Fort Lauderdale home runs $320-$580, depending on system size, accessibility, and how much contamination is present. Condenser cleaning alone is $120-$190. Air handler cleaning typically runs $180-$320. Evaporator coil cleaning is $140-$260 when done as part of a full system cleaning. Blower cleaning is $120-$220. If we find crushed or disconnected flex runs during camera inspection, the sealing and repair work is quoted separately in writing before we touch it. Every Fort Lauderdale job gets a written price under Haven Standard Clause 1 before work starts, and our Free Second Opinion means you can bring a competitor’s quote and we’ll put our number next to it in writing. Call (806) 606-6902 for your exact quote.
We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Lauderdale
While this page covers Fort Lauderdale specifically, our technicians also work throughout Plantation, Pompano Beach, Hollywood, and Coconut Creek. If you’re in one of these Broward County communities and need HVAC cleaning, the same written pricing, documented photo record, and 365-Day Done Right Promise apply. Call us and tell us which city you’re in - we’ll schedule from our South FL office and route the nearest crew.
Serving Fort Lauderdale, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale’s HVAC systems run 11-12 months a year instead of seasonally, so your ducts never get the winter shutdown that gives northern systems a natural drying-out period. Add 75%+ relative humidity year-round and the result is ducts that stay perpetually damp inside, which means biological growth and debris accumulation that simply don’t happen at the same rate in drier climates. We recommend Fort Lauderdale homeowners inspect their ductwork every 2-3 years at minimum, compared to the 3-5 year schedules you’ll hear recommended in northern markets. Call (806) 606-6902 for an exact assessment.
Salt-laden Atlantic air accelerates corrosion of metal duct connectors, flex duct clamps, and damper hardware. We see it most in Fort Lauderdale homes within a mile of the coast or the inland waterway network: damper blades seize shut, clamps crumble, and connectors develop pin-hole leaks that pull in attic air that bypasses your filter and dumps directly into your conditioned space. That’s why our Fort Lauderdale techs treat HVAC cleaning as an inspection-and-removal job, not just a vacuum pass.
When your Fort Lauderdale condo sits empty from July through September with the system off or set to minimal cooling, the interior of your ductwork becomes a sealed, dark, humid chamber. At 90%+ relative humidity, mold and mildew colonies can establish themselves within two to three weeks. When you arrive in October and turn the system to full cooling, the first few days of operation push those spores through every register and into the air you’re breathing. We see this pattern every fall in oceanfront condos and canal-front rentals across Fort Lauderdale. Call us before you flip the system on.
Usually yes, if the smell is coming from biological growth inside the ductwork, the evaporator coil, or the air handler cabinet. The musty smell you’re noticing in your Coral Ridge home is almost certainly mold or mildew colonies living on damp surfaces inside the system. Source removal with HEPA-filtered negative pressure, combined with evaporator coil cleaning and sanitizing, removes the biomass that produces the odor. If the source is a crushed duct pulling attic air or standing water in the drain pan, our camera inspection will show that too. We don’t guess at smells; we document what’s there and treat what we find.
Cleaning alone is rarely the full solution in a 50-year-old Fort Lauderdale home with original flex ducts. After five decades of 140°F attic heat, the duct liner has degraded, the flexible core has sagged, and in many cases, the outer jacket has torn open and the duct has effectively collapsed or disconnected. Cleaning removes what’s there, but if the duct is compromised, the contamination returns because the system is still pulling unfiltered attic air. We recently worked on a 1960s canal-front home in Rio Vista where the original flex ducts had sagged and crushed. Our techs used camera inspection to locate the collapsed runs, then performed source removal before applying duct sealant to restore airflow and prevent re-contamination. The cleaning was necessary, but the sealing was the permanent fix. We’ll show you exactly what the camera sees before any work is quoted.
Your Fort Lauderdale HVAC Cleaning, Done Right and Documented
When our crew leaves your Fort Lauderdale home, you’ll have what no generic cleaning company provides: a documented photo record of every duct run, inside, before and after. Written pricing agreed before work started. A written 365-Day Done Right Promise that the work is accountable. If you’re tired of contractor math and vague reassurances, call CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning at (806) 606-6902 for a free estimate and a written price before any panel comes off.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Fort Lauderdale under the Haven Standard since 2013.
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