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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 Medford
Air duct cleaning in Medford costs between $450 and $900 for a typical single-family home, and between $900 and $1,800 for a triple-decker with multiple units and retrofit ductwork. Most jobs in Medford take 4 to 8 hours, and we schedule within 5 to 10 business days depending on the season. The reason the range matters: Medford’s housing stock was almost never built with ductwork in mind, so the work is rarely a standard “hook up the vacuum and run a brush” job. We serve every neighborhood in Medford, from West Medford to Wellington to Glenwood, and every job ends with a documented photo record of the inside of your duct runs. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written price before any work starts.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Medford’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We started in 2013, and since then we’ve cleaned ducts in over 52,000 homes. In Medford specifically, our work has been concentrated in the neighborhoods where the housing stock is oldest: Hillside, West Medford, South Medford, and the streets off High Street. Those homes share a common problem. They were built for radiators. The forced-air systems now running through them are retrofits, installed decades after the original construction, often by contractors working around finished plaster walls and narrow stairwell chases. That’s not a standard clean.
Medford homeowners tend to ask us harder questions than homeowners in newer suburbs. They want to know how we’ll reach runs that were threaded behind kitchen closets. They want proof the debris is actually gone, not just a receipt. That’s why every Medford job includes a documented photo record, inside every duct run, before and after. If the camera shows a problem we couldn’t reach, we say so. Written upfront pricing is Haven Standard Clause 1, meaning you get a number in writing before a single panel comes off. The 365-Day Done Right Promise backs that number: if the work isn’t right, we make it right, in writing, not as a verbal policy subject to a manager’s mood.
For Medford’s older homes, we put extra emphasis on supply duct cleaning and return duct cleaning, because the issues are rarely symmetric. A return run in a basement might be pulling damp air through unsealed joints while a supply run three floors up is crushed behind a stairwell wall. We’ll find both. Our team is led by Tomas Reyes, who runs each Medford job with the same standard: photograph the problem, name the fix, name the price, do the work, photograph the result.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Medford
Residential Duct Cleaning
Residential duct cleaning in Medford almost always means working inside a pre-1940 building envelope. When we clean a Victorian off Boston Avenue or a triple-decker near Tufts, we’re dealing with retrofit runs that twist through spaces never meant to house ductwork. Our negative-pressure extraction system pulls debris out while HEPA filtration captures the horsehair plaster dust that older Medford homes shed constantly. You’ll see the before and after for every run.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
Commercial duct cleaning in Medford covers small offices, restaurants, clinics, and the mixed-use buildings around Medford Square. These commercial systems often sit above drop ceilings with long horizontal runs, which collect dust at a different rate than residential systems. We work around business hours and provide the same written scope and photo documentation we’d give a homeowner. No job is quoted without a visual inspection first.
Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts carry conditioned air to your rooms, and in Medford retrofits, they’re often the runs that were hardest to install. We routinely find supply ducts crushed in stairwell chases or disconnected at 90-degree elbows behind kitchen closets. Cleaning these runs requires more than a spinning brush; we use camera inspection to map the run, then clean what’s reachable and document what isn’t. If a supply duct needs sealing or reconnecting, we do that as part of the job so the air actually reaches the rooms it’s supposed to.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts pull air back to the furnace, and in Medford’s humid South Medford basements, they often sit in damp, unsealed conditions. A return run with unsealed sheet-metal joints pulls in moisture and fine particles for years. We’ve found mold colonization inside return ducts in Mystic River valley homes, particularly in older systems that were never sealed after the retrofit. Return duct cleaning in Medford frequently becomes return duct sealing as well, because cleaning a leaky return without sealing the joints just invites the problem back.
Full System Cleaning and Video Inspection
A full system cleaning in Medford covers supply runs, return runs, the plenum, and the registers. But the most valuable part of the job is the video inspection. Before we clean, we run a camera through the runs to see what we’re actually dealing with: crushed flex liners, dead-leg branches, debris accumulation, disconnected joints. After we clean, the camera goes back through. You get the footage. That’s how you know the job was real. It’s also how we decide whether sealing work is the real fix, not just another cleaning.
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The equipment matters, and we name it so you can verify it. Our crews use Rotobrush and Nikro for mechanical agitation, plus Abatement Technologies negative-pressure units for extraction. We work on systems from every major manufacturer, and we stock common replacement parts for older Medford systems: flex-duct liners, mastic, aluminum tape, and sheet-metal connectors. When a retrofit duct is damaged, we don’t have to wait for parts to ship. We bring what we need to Medford.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Medford Homes
- Retrofit duct runs with sharp 90-degree bends and dead-leg branches. These trap debris that standard rotary brushes simply can’t reach. In Medford triple-deckers, the original installers ran ducts around stairwells and through closet chases, creating geometry no brush was designed for.
- Unsealed sheet-metal joints sucking in damp air from South Medford basements. The Mystic River valley keeps lower-lying neighborhoods humid year-round. Unsealed joints in a humid basement pull that moisture into the system, and mold follows.
- Crushed or disconnected flex-duct liners in inaccessible runs. We see this constantly in Medford homes converted from radiator heat. A supply run behind a kitchen closet gets crushed during a renovation or just degrades over time, silently dumping conditioned air into a wall cavity. Your utility bill rises; your third-floor bedroom stays cold.
- Decades of horsehair plaster dust. Medford’s original walls were plaster over wood lath, often mixed with horsehair. When renovations disturb those walls and forced-air systems run year-round, fine plaster dust loads into the duct liners. This is not dust from your living; it’s dust from the house itself.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Medford, MA
Here are actual numbers for Medford, not vague ranges. A single-family home or a single condo unit typically runs $450 to $700 for a full system clean, depending on the number of runs and the accessibility. A triple-decker with multiple units and retrofit ductwork runs $900 to $1,800. A standalone commercial space in Medford Square typically runs $1,200 to $2,400. If we find crushed or disconnected runs that need sealing and reconnection, that work is quoted separately and in writing before we do it. You’ll never get a per-vent price from us. You get one number for the whole system, in writing, before work starts. That’s Haven Standard Clause 1. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll walk you through what your Medford home needs. No call-for-a-quote games; if we can’t give you a real price over the phone, we’ll schedule a quick inspection and hand you a written number before anything else happens.
| Medford Duct Cleaning Scope | Typical Price Range |
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| Single condo unit or small home (4-8 runs) | $450 - $700 |
| Single-family Victorian or larger home (8-14 runs) | $650 - $900 |
| Triple-decker, multiple units, retrofit complexity | $900 - $1,800 |
| Commercial space, Medford Square area | $1,200 - $2,400 |
| Duct sealing and reconnection (per job, quoted separately) | $300 - $1,100 |
Our Medford pricing includes the documented photo record on every visit. You’ll get before and after photos of every accessible duct run, plus a written scope of work and a written warranty under the 365-Day Done Right Promise. Estimates are free, and we’ll put our price next to any competitor’s written quote, no charge. That’s the Free Second Opinion policy.
We Also Serve Cities Near Medford
Our crews serve Medford and the surrounding communities, including Malden, Somerville, Arlington, and Everett. If you’re in any of those towns and dealing with similar retrofit ductwork, the same approach applies. For more details on what we do in these areas, see our full Air Duct Cleaning service page.
Serving Medford, MA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Medford 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 Medford
Medford triple-deckers have retrofit ductwork threaded through finished plaster walls, stairwell chases, and kitchen closets, which creates sharp 90-degree bends and dead-leg branches that standard rotary brushes can’t reach. These systems need camera inspection first, then targeted cleaning with negative pressure and HEPA filtration, plus sealing work on unsealed joints and crushed liners. Newer suburban homes typically have purpose-built duct runs with predictable geometry; Medford’s stock doesn’t. Call (806) 606-6902 for a written quote on your building.
Yes, but the method matters. We don’t shove oversized brushes through runs that were threaded through plaster walls decades ago. We inspect each run with a camera first, then use appropriately sized agitation and negative-pressure extraction to pull debris out without stressing the surrounding wall material. The horsehair plaster itself is not in the duct path; it’s the dust from that plaster, disturbed during the original retrofit, that’s the contamination problem. We photograph the inside of every run before and after so you can see the wall wasn’t touched. Call (806) 606-6902 for an exact quote.
We find the problem with a camera, document it with photos, and then quote the repair as a separate line item in writing before any work starts. In a South Medford triple-decker, we traced a disconnected supply run behind a kitchen closet that had been dumping heated air into a plaster wall cavity for years. The camera showed a crushed flex-duct liner and a 90-degree elbow packed with horsehair plaster dust. We cleaned the accessible runs using negative pressure with HEPA filtration, then sealed and reconnected the supply duct with mastic and aluminum tape so the third-floor bedrooms finally got airflow. If your ductwork has this problem, we’ll show you the footage and give you a written repair price. Call (806) 606-6902.
Homes in lower-lying parts of South Medford sit close to the Mystic River, and that ambient humidity gets pulled into duct systems through unsealed sheet-metal joints, especially in basements. Once inside, moisture accelerates mold colonization inside supply and return ducts. The fix is twofold: clean the affected runs, then seal the joints so the humidity stops entering. Cleaning alone won’t solve it. If you’re in South Medford near the river and haven’t had your ducts inspected, call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll tell you what the camera shows.
Expect irregular duct geometry with sharp bends, possible dead-leg branches, old flex-duct liners that may have collapsed, and unsealed joints pulling in basement air. Expect that the runs running through original stairwell chases or kitchen closets have never been properly cleaned because standard brushes couldn’t reach them. Expect dust from the original horsehair plaster to still be inside the runs, decades after the renovation. And expect that some runs may be disconnected entirely, silently leaking air into wall cavities. We’ll document all of it with the camera, then give you a written scope and price. Call (806) 606-6902.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Medford since 2013.