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 Los Angeles
Air duct cleaning in Los Angeles typically runs between $450 and $900 for a full system on a standard single-family home, and the work usually takes four to seven hours. That’s the honest number, and we’ll put it in writing before a single panel comes off. Why the spread? Because a 1,200-square-foot post-war tract home in Reseda has very different ductwork than a 4,000-square-foot hillside house in Studio City, and we quote by what the camera shows us, not by the square footage on your listing. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll walk you through exactly what a cleaning involves in your part of Los Angeles, including what we expect to find in the ducts before we ever touch them.
We’re CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, and we’ve been documenting every duct run we open since 2013. More than 52,000 homes served, every one photographed before and after, every one quoted with a written price under Haven Standard Clause 1. No coupons. No bait pricing. Just a camera, a written scope, and a record you can hold us to.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Los Angeles’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Los Angeles has more than four million homes spread across three distinct basins: the San Fernando Valley, the South Bay, and the San Gabriel Valley. Each one ages differently, breathes differently, and fails differently. A crew that only knows how to run a vacuum through a register won’t recognize what’s actually wrong in a Chatsworth attic versus a Torrance crawlspace. Our techs do, because we work those neighborhoods every week.
Our Los Angeles customers consistently cite two things in their reviews: the written price before we start, and the photo record after we finish. That’s the whole business model. Tomas Reyes, who leads our team, built CleanRun on a simple rule: if you can’t photograph it, you can’t claim it. Every duct run gets a before photo, an after photo, and a line-item in the written job record. You don’t take our word for anything. You look at the evidence.
As an independently owned and operated company under the Haven Standard, we answer to our customers in Los Angeles, not a corporate office in another state. Scheduling for Los Angeles is coordinated from our local office, and our techs are background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before they arrive. No subcontractors, no mystery crews.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Los Angeles
Most Los Angeles homes need more than a basic vacuum pass. Here’s what we actually do, and why each service matters in this market specifically. Our Air Duct Cleaning team handles all of it with professional-grade equipment you can look up yourself, including Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies systems.
Residential Duct Cleaning
This is our core service for Los Angeles homeowners: full negative-pressure extraction with mechanical agitation, HEPA filtration on every job, and a documented photo record of each duct run. For the Valley’s post-war tract homes, we focus on the failure points that decades of 140-160°F attic heat create: collapsed flex-duct branches, separated sheet-metal joints, and degraded liner material that has become the contamination source itself. A standard cleaning from a $79 coupon vendor won’t touch that layer of the problem.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
Los Angeles commercial spaces sit under the same inversion layer as every home here, but with higher occupant density and often more neglected mechanical rooms. We clean office suites, retail spaces, and light industrial facilities throughout Los Angeles, with written scopes and after-hours scheduling available. Every commercial job includes the same photo record and the same 365-Day Done Right Promise as a single-family home.
Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts move conditioned air into your living spaces, and in Los Angeles they’re the paths most often contaminated by disintegrating duct liners and fiberglass insulation pulled in from compromised joints. We clean supply runs with negative-pressure HEPA extraction so the particles we dislodge are collected, not blown into your bedrooms. In South Bay homes built in the 1950s, disconnected sheet-metal joints are common enough that we routinely find fiberglass strands packed into the first ten feet of supply trunk lines.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts pull air back to your air handler and furnace, and in Los Angeles they carry a load profile specific to this basin: fine soot from Santa Ana-driven wildfire events, fine dust from the South Coast Air Basin’s ground-level particulate, and degraded insulation from attic runs. We treat return ducts as a distinct cleaning task with its own inspection pass, because a return duct that looks “clean enough” at the register often has an inch of compacted dust at the plenum connection. Our video inspection documents it either way.
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.
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We service HVAC systems that Los Angeles homeowners actually have: Honeywell thermostats and air quality controls, Aprilaire filtration systems, and Guardsman UV and sanitizing components among them. Knowing the equipment matters because a Rotobrush agitation pass through a system with an Aprilaire media filter requires a different pre-filter protocol than a basic fiberglass filter slot. Our techs carry the common sizes and replacement materials for these brands, which means we don’t have to pause a Los Angeles job for a parts run across the 101.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Los Angeles Homes
- Crumbled flex-duct liners in Valley attics. Original 1960s flex-duct branches in Reseda, Canoga Park, and Chatsworth attics break down under years of 140-160°F heat. The Mylar liner turns brittle, fragments, and becomes the black granular debris blowing through your registers. Cleaning without camera inspection just redistributes it.
- Post-fire ash compaction in return ducts. After the Bobcat and Eaton fires, fine combustion particulates settle inside return runs faster than a standard residential cleaning can remove. If the crew isn’t running HEPA filtration during agitation, you’ll see a white film on your registers within a day. We photograph it before and after so you know the difference.
- Fiberglass insulation pulled into supply lines. 1950s South Bay tract homes in Torrance and Lomita often have disconnected sheet-metal joints in the attic, which lets fiberglass insulation get pulled into the supply side. A low-end cleaning with no negative pressure actually pushes more of it into your living space.
- Dust-loaded plenums from inversion-layer air. The LA Basin’s thermal inversion traps fine particulate at ground level, which means your HVAC intakes pull in some of the most pollutant-dense ambient air in the US. We regularly find plenum boxes packed with a fine gray-brown paste that is years of LA air, condensed into one chamber.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Los Angeles, CA
Here are real numbers for the Los Angeles market, because you should know what to expect before anyone steps into your home. A standard single-family home with up to 12 duct runs typically runs $450-$675. Larger homes with multiple zones or long attic runs run $675-$900. If our camera inspection finds collapsed flex branches or separated joints that require replacement, we quote that separately as a written line item, typically $95-$180 per replaced run depending on length and insulation rating. No per-vent gimmicks, no $79 teaser that turns into $1,200 at the door. One flat price per system, in writing, before work starts. That’s Haven Standard Clause 1, and it’s the only way we quote.
We also offer a Free Second Opinion on any written estimate. Bring a competitor’s quote, and we’ll put our number next to it in writing. No games.
We Also Serve Cities Near Los Angeles
Our coverage extends beyond Los Angeles proper to the surrounding communities of Huntington Park, South Gate, Bell, and Maywood. If you’re in one of those areas and searching for Air Duct Cleaning in Los Angeles metro coverage, the same written pricing and photo record applies. We schedule throughout the basin and can usually reach these areas within the same week.
Serving Los Angeles, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles
Santa Ana events push desert dust and, during fire season, combustion particulates through the Cajon and Newhall passes directly into Los Angeles homes before most people can close their intakes. We recommend scheduling your cleaning two to four weeks after a significant Santa Ana event, especially if you live in the San Gabriel Valley or the eastern San Fernando Valley where wind-driven debris loads are highest. Call (806) 606-6902 if you’re seeing a fine gray film on surfaces after a wind event, and we’ll tell you whether a cleaning or a filter evaluation is the right next step.
Because Valley attics routinely reach 140-160°F in summer, and original flex-duct liner material cannot survive those temperatures for 40 or 50 years. The Mylar lining crumbles, and the fiberglass insulation beneath it enters the airstream. Westside Los Angeles attics rarely exceed 120°F due to the marine layer, so original ducts in places like Santa Monica or Westwood degrade at a much slower rate. In the Valley, this is the single most common contamination source we document.
No, a standard cleaning is rarely sufficient after a significant wildfire event in Los Angeles. Wildfire ash is finer than household dust, electrostatically charged, and compacts inside return ducts within days. It requires HEPA filtration during agitation and often a second pass specific to the return plenum. Our team treats post-fire cleaning as a distinct scope with its own written plan, and the photo record documents exactly what came out.
The return side of the system in Los Angeles tract homes pulls air from living spaces through panned cavities, wall chases, and attic runs that are rarely sealed. That means return ducts collect not just dust, but fiberglass from the attic, soot from ambient LA air, and in some cases rodent debris from unsealed penetration points. We run a separate camera pass through the full return path before cleaning, which is not standard in every market. The return side is often where the actual air quality problem lives.
Most single-family homes in Los Angeles take four to seven hours from first panel removal to final photo documentation. Homes with extensive attic runs, multiple zones, or post-fire ash contamination may take longer, and we’ll tell you that in the written scope before we start. We don’t rush this work, because the documentation is part of the deliverable, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise means we’d rather do it once and prove it.
Call CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning in Los Angeles
You don’t need to guess what’s inside your ductwork. You can see it. That’s what we’ve been doing since 2013, and it’s why Los Angeles homeowners choose us when they want a written price, a documented job, and a guarantee that actually means something on paper. Call (806) 606-6902 for a free estimate. We’ll put the number in writing before any work begins, and when we leave, you’ll have the photos to prove what was done.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Los Angeles with documented duct cleaning and repair since 2013.
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