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 Livonia
HVAC cleaning in Livonia means dealing with a very specific kind of house: ranch and tri-level homes built fast between 1950 and 1975, most of them still running the original sheet-metal trunk-and-branch ductwork installed when Livonia’s subdivisions were carved out of farmland. That’s roughly 36,000 homes, and a large share of them have never had their duct systems professionally cleaned. We know what’s inside those basement trunk lines because we’ve been documenting them since 2013. If you’re reading this from a ranch off 7 Mile or a tri-level near Schoolcraft College, call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll give you a written price before anything comes off the wall.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Livonia’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company
Our crews work Livonia weekly, and the photo records we hand customers tell the real story: 3-inch debris build-up at the first elbow, crushed galvanized runs under basement storage, fiberglass liner shedding into the airstream. We don’t ask you to take our word for it. Every job includes a documented photo record of every duct run, before and after, delivered as a standard part of the job file since our first year in business.
Tomas Reyes, who leads our team, set the standard before the industry had a name for it: written price before work starts, every time. That’s Haven Standard Clause 1, and it applies to every Livonia job we do, no exceptions. We’re independently owned and operated, not a franchise, and all calls are answered by a live person, 24/7. When we say we’ll show up in Livonia, we show up with a name, a background-checked uniformed technician, and equipment you can look up yourself: Rotobrush, Nikro, Abatement Technologies, Guardsman.
Our HVAC Cleaning team spends more time in Livonia basements than anywhere else in Wayne County. We know what the 1960s-era plenum boxes look like here because we’ve opened hundreds of them. More importantly, we know what they’re doing to your airflow, and we can put that in writing.
Our HVAC Cleaning Services in Livonia
We clean the entire HVAC system, not just the visible registers. In Livonia’s basements, that means work most companies never photograph. We do, and you get the file.
Evaporator Coil Cleaning
A dirty evaporator coil reduces cooling capacity and runs your compressor harder through Livonia’s humid summers. Great Lakes moisture condenses on the coil every cycle, and once a layer of dust and pet hair binds to that wet surface, the coil stops transferring heat efficiently. We open the plenum, photograph what’s there, clean the coil with professional-grade equipment, and photograph it again. Our coil treatment is applied the same way, with a written scope of what was done and what we found.
Blower Cleaning
The blower wheel moves every cubic foot of air you breathe in a Livonia winter, and after 50-plus years, those fins are often caked with a gray mat of fine particulate. A fouled blower wheel can lose a measurable share of its airflow before you ever notice warmer upstairs bedrooms. We pull the blower assembly when access allows, clean each fin, and document the before and after. This matters doubly in Livonia tract homes with undersized returns that are already starving the system for air.
Condenser Cleaning
Your outdoor condenser sits through Livonia’s full cycle: maple and oak debris in fall, cottonwood in June, road dust off Farmington and 7 Mile all year. Coils clogged with organic matter run head pressures up and short-cycles your compressor. We clean the coil fins, straighten what’s bent, and check the surrounding clearance. A clean condenser is the simplest cooling-season repair there is, and it’s part of a full system service, not an add-on we surprise you with.
Air Handler Cleaning
In Livonia’s full-basement layouts, the air handler is often tucked into a corner behind years of storage, which means it rarely gets looked at until airflow fails. We remove the access panels, clean the interior surfaces, check the drain pan and trap, and document any microbial growth or debris. If your home still has the original fiberglass duct liner, air handler cleaning is where we’ll first see the telltale signs of it shedding into the airstream. We’ll photograph that too.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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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 Livonia
Most Livonia homes we work on have Carrier, Lennox, Trane, York, or Rheem equipment, and we service all of them. We run HEPA-filtered negative-pressure extraction with Abatement Technologies units and clean coils and blowers with Rotobrush and Nikro tooling. When replacement components like filters, belts, or coil cleaner are needed, our techs carry common sizes for older Michigan basements, and anything else is sourced fast from our metro Detroit parts network. Scheduling is coordinated from our Detroit office, and crews are dispatched to Livonia daily. If you’re ready to get a written number, call (806) 606-6902.
Common HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Livonia Homes
- Oversized 1960s plenum boxes with undersized returns. Entire subdivisions in Livonia were built by the same tract developers from identical blueprints, so the negative pressure problem repeats almost identically house to house along the same street. Chronic negative pressure pulls attic dust and insulation fibers into the supply side, and no amount of surface register wiping will fix it. The real fix is sealing and sometimes return duct modification, not just brushing the visible grilles.
- Deteriorated fiberglass duct liner. Many Livonia homes still have the original fiberglass liner inside the supply runs. After 50 to 70 years of Michigan’s humidity-to-dry cycling, that liner degrades, releasing fine particulate directly into the air you breathe. We find it most often at the supply boots and first elbows, and we photograph it so you can see exactly what we’re describing.
- Debris-filled horizontal trunk lines in full basements. Livonia’s ranch and tri-level layouts almost universally run a long horizontal galvanized trunk line the full length of the house before branching up through interior walls. Decades of construction dust, pet dander, and household debris settle into these runs, and they’re rarely inspected because they live behind basement clutter. By the time airflow complains, the restriction is often 50% or more.
- Crushed or kinked duct runs under storage. Full basements become storage rooms, and that weight lands on ductwork that was never designed to carry it. We’ve found trunk lines collapsed under decades of boxes, cutting airflow to entire floors. Cleaning doesn’t fix a crushed run. It requires cutting out the damaged section and sealing the repair, which is duct repair work we do as part of an HVAC Cleaning in Livonia visit when the camera shows it’s needed.
Pricing for HVAC Cleaning in Livonia, MI
A complete HVAC cleaning for a typical Livonia ranch or tri-level home runs $850 to $1,400. That includes the full system scope: air handler cleaning, evaporator coil cleaning, blower cleaning, and condenser cleaning, plus the documented photo record of every duct run. Smaller jobs, like a standalone evaporator coil clean, start around $300 to $450. If duct sealing or crushed-run repair is needed after the camera inspection, that’s quoted in writing as a separate line item with its own flat price before any cutting begins. A new filter, a belt, coil cleaner: all named on the same written scope. Nobody pays a per-vent price, and nobody gets a $79 coupon that turns into a $1,900 invoice when the van pulls up. That’s the industry we were built to replace. The written price is the first thing you get, not the last.
We Also Serve Cities Near Livonia
Our crews work Livonia daily and regularly serve nearby Westland, Redford, Canton, and Dearborn Heights. If you’re just over the border in any of those cities, the same written pricing and photo-record standard applies. Call (806) 606-6902 and ask for a scope on your specific system.
Serving Livonia, MI - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Livonia 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 Livonia
The most common cause we document is an undersized return paired with an oversized plenum box, a design standard of the 1960s tract era. That combination creates chronic negative pressure that starves the system for air, so even a clean duct system underperforms. Add 50 years of debris accumulation in the horizontal trunk line, and the result is the weak airflow you’re feeling in the back bedrooms. The fix is usually a combination of source-removal cleaning, sealing, and in some cases return duct modification. For an exact number on your house, call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll put it in writing.
It is almost always original fiberglass duct liner, not asbestos, but the only way to know is to have it tested. In Livonia homes built between 1950 and 1975, fiberglass was widely used as a duct liner, and after decades of Great Lakes humidity cycling, it deteriorates and sheds particulates into the airstream. We don’t do demolition without testing when the material is questionable, and we’ll document everything with photos before any removal decision is made. Call (806) 606-6902 if you want a straight answer on what you’re looking at. Estimates are free.
For most Livonia homes with original ductwork, every 4 to 6 years is a reasonable interval, but that’s based on what we actually find, not a universal schedule. The combination of a seven-month heating season and elevated summer humidity from the lakes creates more debris accumulation and more microbial pressure than drier climates. Homes with pets, smokers, recent renovation, or newborns should lean toward every 3 to 4 years. If you don’t know when your ducts were last done, they probably haven’t been. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written inspection price.
No. Cleaning removes debris; it does not restore a collapsed or crushed galvanized section. On a tri-level off Farmington Road, our tech traced weak airflow to a crushed trunk line in the full basement, collapsed under decades of storage. After camera inspection confirmed the kink, we source-removed the debris, cut out the damaged section, and sealed the branch with mastic. The real fix was restoring negative pressure so the undersized 1968 return could pull properly again. That’s duct repair and sealing, quoted as a separate line item before any cutting starts. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written scope on your specific run.
Because entire Livonia subdivisions were built by the same handful of tract developers using identical blueprints, and those blueprints repeated the same design flaw on every lot: undersized returns creating negative pressure that pulls attic dust and insulation fibers into the supply side. We’ve documented the same failure mode on three consecutive houses on the same street more than once. If your neighbors are all complaining about the same thing, it’s not coincidence, it’s a tract-built pattern. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll show you, with photos, what’s happening in your own ductwork.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Livonia and greater Wayne County since 2013.