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 Austin
Air duct cleaning in Austin typically costs $450-$780 for a whole-home system, and most jobs are completed in four to seven hours. That’s the honest range for a documented, source-removal cleaning with before-and-after photos, not a $79 coupon that becomes a surprise invoice. Our crews work in Austin neighborhoods every week, and we know what decades of Hill Country attic heat does to ductwork. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll give you a written price before any panel comes off.
We’re CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, and we’ve been documenting what we find inside Austin’s duct systems since 2013. The camera doesn’t lie. Neither do our prices.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Austin’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Austin homeowners tend to ask sharper questions than most. They’ve read the horror stories about $49 whole-house specials that turn into $1,400 invoices once the tech “finds” mold. They want to see what’s actually in the ducts before paying to remove it. That’s exactly how we work. Every CleanRun job in Austin starts with a camera inspection, a written scope of work, and a price that doesn’t change once the truck is parked in your driveway. Haven Standard Clause 1: written price before any work starts. No exceptions, no manager approval needed.
Tomas Reyes, our owner, built CleanRun around a simple idea: if the work is real, you should be able to see it. That means every Austin job ends with a Documented Photo Record of every duct run we touched, inside, before and after. You get the photos as part of your job file, not as an upsell. It’s the same standard we’ve held on 52,000+ homes since 2013.
We also know Austin’s housing stock in a way a national chain simply can’t. In Allandale, Crestview, and Brentwood, we’re regularly inside 1970s and 1980s ranch homes with original flex duct or ductboard that’s been baking in 150°F attics for forty years. Our techs expect to find degraded liners and crushed runs in those neighborhoods. A company that only knows how to vacuum registers will miss the actual problem.
Every Austin customer is backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise. If we didn’t do it right, we come back and make it right, in writing. Not a policy subject to manager discretion. A written guarantee on every job.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Austin
We offer the full scope of Air Duct Cleaning services, and in Austin the most common requests cluster around older systems that haven’t been opened in decades. Here’s what we do most often.
Residential Duct Cleaning
Most Austin homes we clean run 1,800 to 3,200 square feet with a single HVAC system and 10 to 18 duct runs. A standard residential cleaning includes negative-pressure extraction with HEPA filtration, brush agitation of each run, and a camera verification pass when we’re done. In older Central Austin homes, we frequently add duct repair scope because the flex runs have collapsed from attic heat. That’s an Austin-specific reality, and we’ll show you the camera footage before quoting the fix.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
Austin’s commercial spaces along South Congress, the Domain, and the warehouse districts around East Austin deal with different loading than homes: higher occupancy, longer runtime, and construction dust from nearby build-outs. We clean supply and return runs, package units, and exhaust systems for offices, clinics, and retail spaces. Jobs are quoted after a walkthrough, always in writing, and scheduled around your operating hours. No “call for pricing” here. You’ll get a number.
Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts carry conditioned air from your air handler to each register. In Austin, these runs typically live in unconditioned attics where summer temperatures sit above 140°F. That heat accelerates liner breakdown, which means supply runs in older Austin homes often carry fiberglass particles along with the air. We clean supply runs with source-removal tools sized for 6-inch through 12-inch flex and rigid duct, then document the result with the camera.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts pull air back to the system and tend to collect the heaviest debris: pet hair, carpet fiber, sheetrock dust from renovations, and in many Austin neighborhoods, a fine gray silt that works its way in from slab foundations. If your return runs are panned joists, which we see a lot of in 1960s and 1970s homes around Rosedale and Hyde Park, we’ll show you what’s accumulated in the pan before we touch it. Cleaning returns properly often means sealing the pans afterward, something we quote as part of the same written scope.
Full System Cleaning
A full system cleaning goes beyond register-to-register vacuuming. We clean the supply and return plenums, the blower assembly, the evaporator coil (when accessible), and all accessible duct runs, plus sanitize with an EPA-registered product when needed. For Austin homes with 30-to-50-year-old duct systems, this is the scope that actually changes air quality. A $99 register vacuum won’t touch the plenum or the coil. We’ll show you the difference on camera.
Video Inspection
Every CleanRun job in Austin starts here. We run a camera into the ductwork and document what’s there before we clean. That footage tells us whether you need a $500 cleaning or a $1,200 duct repair plus cleaning, and it lets us quote the correct scope the first time. If a competitor quoted you a cleaning without a camera inspection, bring us the written estimate. We’ll put our own number next to it in writing, free, under our Free Second Opinion policy.
What happens when you call
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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.
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Our equipment roster includes Rotobrush, Nikro, and Guardsman systems, professional-grade tools you can look up independently before we ever arrive. We service all major HVAC brands common in Austin homes, including Honeywell components, Aprilaire filtration, and the Goodman, Trane, Carrier, and Lennox systems that dominate local installs. Because Austin’s cooling season runs nearly nine months, we keep common replacement parts and sealants on our local trucks, which means fewer return trips when a clean turns into a repair.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Austin Homes
After a decade of cleaning Austin duct systems, we can predict what a camera will find before we even open the first register. Here’s what shows up most often:
- Crushed flex duct runs. The Allandale, Brentwood, and Cherrywood ranches from the 1970s and 1980s have flex ducts that have spent 40 summers in 150°F attics. The wire coil fatigues, the jacket collapses, and the run flattens. A cleaning alone won’t fix a collapsed run. You need replacement. We find this in roughly one out of four older Austin homes we inspect.
- Fiberglass shedding from ductboard. Ductboard was popular in Austin tract construction from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Decades of heat and humidity breaks down the inner liner, and the airstream picks up loose fibers. Those fibers show up on camera as a white dust coating on the vent registers.
- Cedar pollen accumulation. From December through February, mountain cedar counts in Austin regularly exceed 20,000 grains per cubic meter. Your HVAC system pulls that pollen into the return registers, and it settles along duct walls. By March, many Austin ducts carry a visible yellow-green coating. This is a distinctly Austin problem. Dallas and Houston don’t have cedar. We do.
- Post-renovation sheetrock dust. Austin’s remodeling pace means many of the homes we clean have had a kitchen or bath renovation in the last five years. Sheetrock dust is so fine it passes through the filter and coats the entire system. If you sanded drywall and ran the AC, the dust is in your ducts. We’ll show you the layer on camera.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Austin, TX
Let’s talk actual numbers, because that’s the only way this works.
A standard whole-home Air Duct Cleaning in Austin runs $450-$780 for a single HVAC system in a typical 2,000-3,000 square foot home. That’s the full source-removal scope: all supply and return runs, both plenums, blower, coil, and video documentation before and after. Smaller condos and apartments in complexes around South Lamar or Mueller run $300-$450. Larger homes with two systems or extended run counts push $850-$1,200.
If we find crushed flex runs or failed ductboard during the camera inspection, the repair scope is quoted separately and in writing before any of that work starts. Replacing a collapsed run ranges $150-$400 per run depending on length and access. Duct sealing with mastic runs $200-$600 depending on the number of boots and joints. You’ll approve every number before we begin.
We don’t do per-vent pricing. We don’t do coupons that double once we’re inside. One flat price per system, agreed before work starts. That’s Haven Standard Clause 1 in practice.
We Also Serve Cities Near Austin
In addition to our work across Austin proper, CleanRun serves Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Round Rock, and Hutto. These suburbs share Austin’s climate and much of its housing stock, so the same cedar-pollen loading and attic-heat degradation apply. If you’re in one of those cities, we’ll run the same camera inspection and written-price process at your home.
Serving Austin, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Austin 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 Austin
Because cedar pollen counts in Austin hit 20,000-30,000 grains per cubic meter from December through February, and your running HVAC system pulls that pollen into the ducts where it settles along the walls. By March, the coating is visible on camera. A post-cedar cleaning removes the accumulation before the AC season kicks into full gear. We recommend booking in late February or March for this reason. Call (806) 606-6902 to schedule, and we’ll give you a written price before any work starts.
It depends what the camera finds. Cleaning helps if the flex liner is intact and the debris is dust, pollen, and hair. But many 1985-era flex runs in Allandale have spent 40 Austin summers in attics that hit 150°F, and the wire coil has fatigued enough that the run is partially collapsed. In that case, cleaning helps, but the real fix is replacing that section. We’ll show you the footage before we quote either scope, so you’ll know exactly what you’re paying for.
Fiberglass shedding from degrading ductboard, crushed flex runs, disconnected boots, and a fine layer of dust that has accumulated over decades of Austin’s near-year-round AC runtime. In Brentwood and Crestview specifically, where homes date from the 1950s through 1970s, we frequently see original supply runs that were never resealed after earlier HVAC replacements. That means conditioned air is leaking into a 150°F attic. We document each finding on camera and quote the repair in writing.
Yes. Our cleaning procedures follow NADCA (National Air Duct Cleaners Association) standards for source removal: negative-pressure extraction, mechanical agitation, and HEPA filtration where applicable. We’re also trained in what NADCA calls “the Austin problem” in our own words: attic duct systems that have degraded more than their age would suggest because of sustained extreme attic temperatures. Compliance is the baseline. The camera documentation is how you verify the work actually happened.
Cleaning removes what’s inside the ducts. Sealing closes the leaks where conditioned air escapes. In Austin, the two often go together, because the same attic heat that breaks down liners also dries out tape and mastic at the boots. Aeroseal-style duct sealing costs $1,800-$2,500 for a typical Austin home and is quoted separately from a $450-$780 full-system cleaning. Some homes need only cleaning. Some need sealing. We’ll show you on camera which applies to your system before quoting either.
Get a Written Price Before You Decide
You’ve read this far, which means you’re the kind of customer who wants evidence before writing a check. That’s exactly how we work. Call (806) 606-6902 and tell us about your home, your system, and what’s been bothering you. We’ll schedule a camera inspection, walk you through what we find, and hand you a written price for the exact scope you approve. No surprises, no pressure, no bait-and-switch. That’s been the CleanRun standard on every one of the 52,000+ homes we’ve served since 2013.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Austin and surrounding communities.
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