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 Shoreline
Air duct cleaning in Shoreline typically runs $380-$680 for a full system on a single-family ranch or split-level, and most jobs are completed in four to six hours without removing any drywall. We’re the team that Shoreline homeowners call when they want a written price before work starts and a photo record of every duct run when we leave. You can reach us at (806) 606-6902 to schedule a walkthrough, and we’ll give you the quote in writing before a single panel comes off.
Shoreline isn’t Seattle and it isn’t Bothell. The ductwork here tells a specific story: 1950s and 1960s oil-to-gas conversions, drop ceilings in basements that were finished decades later, and crawl spaces that stay damp for six months out of the year. Understanding that story changes how a duct cleaning should be approached. We’ve been documenting what’s actually inside Shoreline duct runs long enough to know where the problems hide.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Is Shoreline’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning has served 52,000+ homes since 2013, and every single job has started the same way: a written price delivered before work begins. That’s Haven Standard Clause 1, and it isn’t a marketing phrase. It’s printed on every quote we hand to a Shoreline homeowner. Tomas Reyes leads our crews, and the technicians who arrive at your door are background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before they step inside.
Shoreline homeowners tend to be skeptical. They’ve seen the $79 coupon ads and heard the horror stories about bait-and-switch pricing. Our answer is documentation. Before we touch a duct run, we run a camera through it. After we finish, we run the camera again. You get both sets of images as part of the standard job record, along with your written warranty. We also offer a Free Second Opinion on Any Written Estimate - bring us a competitor’s quote and we’ll put our own number next to it in writing. That’s how confident we are about what this work should cost in Shoreline.
Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from the brand’s Seattle office; crews serve Shoreline locally every weekday.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Shoreline
Residential Duct Cleaning
Single-story ranches in Briarcrest and split-levels in Ridgecrest are our bread and butter in Shoreline. We clean the full system: supply side, return side, plenum, and registers. For homes with original 1950s metal ducts that were retrofit for gas heat, we pay particular attention to the fabric joints at the furnace transition, where decades of tape has dried and begun pulling conditioned air out of the system. Expect us to show you the camera footage before we start scrubbing.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
Medical offices near Aurora Avenue, dental practices, and small retail spaces in North City have different demands: occupancy schedules, access constraints, and equipment that can’t be disturbed. We coordinate around your hours and document every run the same way we do in a single-family home. A commercial duct cleaning in Shoreline typically runs $900-$2,400 depending on square footage and the number of rooftop units. You’ll see the written scope before anyone puts a ladder up.
Supply Duct Cleaning
The supply side is where Shoreline’s crawl-space moisture does its worst work. Air leaving the furnace picks up whatever has colonized the interior of the duct on its way to your living room. We use negative-pressure extraction with a Rotobrush or Nikro agitation system to pull debris toward the collection point, not just shove it around. In a typical Shoreline supply run, we’re removing a mix of deteriorated fiberglass liner particles, mold spores, and dust that has been recirculating for years through every register in the house.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts in Shoreline ranches are often oversized, poorly sealed, and draw air from some of the dustiest corners of the home. In homes with older gravity-furnace conversions, the original cold-air return can still be serving the system, bringing crawl-space air up through the floor cavity. We clean these runs with the same negative pressure and camera verification we use on the supply side, and we’ll point out any sealing failures that are actively introducing mold spores back into your breathing air.
Full System Cleaning
This is the service most Shoreline homeowners actually need. It covers every accessible duct run, both plenums, registers, the blower compartment, and the return air drop. On a 1960s ranch in Shoreline, a full system cleaning usually takes 4-6 hours, runs $380-$680, and ends with a photo record of every run. If a duct run is inaccessible from an existing register, we’ll tell you before we start and price the access work as a separate written line item. No surprises on the final number.
Video Inspection
Before you spend a dollar on cleaning, know what’s actually in there. Our camera inspection service sends a high-resolution probe through every run and records what it finds. In Shoreline, we’ve documented collapsed duct tape joints at elbows, sagging fiberglass liner, and - in one Paramount Park home - a family of rodent nests in a return duct that had been abandoned for twenty years. The video is yours to keep. It’s also proof that what we quoted you for actually needed doing.
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 Shoreline
We run professional-grade equipment from Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies, with Guardsman sanitizing products available when a Shoreline customer requests air quality treatment after a mold or moisture event. If you’ve had a previous contractor use a particular brand of duct sealing or if your system was installed with Aprilaire filtration, tell us when you call. Our technicians carry parts and adapters for most common residential configurations in Shoreline, which means fewer repeat visits and less downtime for your system. We name these brands on the page so you can look them up independently before you agree to a price.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Shoreline Homes
- Failed duct tape joints from the 1970s: Oil-to-gas conversions in Shoreline were done fast and cheap. The original aluminum tape is now brittle, cracked, and pulling away at every elbow. Conditioned air leaks into the crawl space, and the negative pressure pulls mold spores right back into the supply side. We find this on roughly three out of four Shoreline ranches built before 1975.
- Sagging fiberglass duct liner: Original duct liner in mid-century Shoreline homes absorbs crawl-space moisture and becomes a porous, damp surface. Mold and dust mites colonize it. Every time the blower cycles, those particles get pushed through your registers. Cleaning helps, but in many cases the liner itself should be removed and replaced.
- Post-renovation dust from Lynnwood Link flips: Homes near the 145th and 185th Street light rail stations are being renovated and resold at a record pace. Drywall dust, paint overspray, and disturbed insulation end up inside duct runs. Buyers move in without ever looking. A camera inspection before closing should be standard practice in this neighborhood right now.
- Crawl-space moisture migration: Shoreline stays damp. Relative humidity in the typical crawl space exceeds 80% all winter, and that moisture moves up through unsealed floor penetrations into the duct system. If your ranch has original register boots with no sealing gaskets, you’re breathing crawl-space air every time the heat kicks on.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Shoreline, WA
A full system Air Duct Cleaning on a single-family Shoreline home runs $380-$680. Supply duct cleaning alone runs $220-$350, return duct cleaning $180-$300, and video inspection $120-$180 as a standalone service. Commercial jobs start around $900 and scale with building size and unit count. These are whole-system prices, not per-vent coupons. What affects the final number? Square footage, number of stories, accessibility of the crawl space, and whether original fiberglass liner needs remediation rather than just cleaning. Every quote is written and delivered before work starts.
- Full System Cleaning: $380-$680 (typical Shoreline ranch or split-level)
- Supply Duct Cleaning only: $220-$350
- Return Duct Cleaning only: $180-$300
- Video Inspection (standalone): $120-$180
- Commercial Duct Cleaning: $900-$2,400
We Also Serve Cities Near Shoreline
Our crews serve Shoreline and the surrounding metro daily, including Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver. If you’re just outside the city limits, we can usually route a crew to you the same week. Tell us your neighborhood when you call and we’ll give you a straight answer on scheduling.
Serving Shoreline, WA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Shoreline 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 Shoreline
Shoreline’s housing stock is older on average, and many of the 1950s-1970s ranches were converted from oil to gas forced-air during the 1970s and 1980s. Those retrofit duct runs have non-engineered bends, deteriorating fiberglass liner, and crawl-space penetrations that pull marine moisture into the system year-round. Bothell has a higher share of newer construction with engineered duct layouts and better sealing. In Shoreline, mold colonization inside original metal ducts is a chronic issue, not a seasonal one. A realistic cleaning interval is every 3-4 years for most Shoreline ranches, versus every 5-7 years for newer Bothell builds. Call (806) 606-6902 if you want us to inspect your system and tell you what your interval should be.
Hire a camera inspection before you sign. Renovation flips near the 145th and 185th Street light rail stations routinely leave drywall dust, paint overspray, and disturbed asbestos-containing duct wrap inside the runs. A standard home inspection almost never opens a register or borescopes a duct. We charge $120-$180 for a standalone video inspection in Shoreline, and you’ll receive footage of every accessible run. If you’re under contract, make the inspection a contingency. Call (806) 606-6902 and we’ll schedule it before your closing date.
It shortens it. Shoreline sits in the Puget Sound lowlands where winter relative humidity in unsealed crawl spaces routinely exceeds 80%. That moisture migrates through unsealed floor penetrations into the duct system and creates conditions where mold and dust mites thrive inside the ductwork. Homes with original fiberglass liner and no crawl-space encapsulation typically need cleaning every 3-4 years. Homes with sealed crawl spaces and modern liner can stretch to 5-6 years. The single most effective thing you can do to extend your interval is seal the crawl space. We’ll show you what’s coming through your registers and recommend the right scope.
Sometimes, but not always. If the liner is intact, we can clean the surface with negative-pressure extraction and HEPA filtration. If the liner is sagging, damp, or colonized with mold, cleaning the surface won’t solve the problem. In that case we’ll document it with the camera, show you the footage, and quote liner removal as a separate written line item. We never quote liner removal as a surprise add-on after we’re already in your house. The write-up comes before the work starts.
Collapsed fabric joints and failed tape at the duct elbows. Shoreline’s oil-to-gas conversions from the 1970s used the cheapest available materials, and fifty years of temperature cycling and crawl-space moisture has caused the adhesive to dry out and the joints to separate. That means the return side is pulling air from the crawl space instead of from your living areas. We see this constantly in Ridgecrest, Briarcrest, and Paramount Park homes. If we find it, we’ll photograph it and give you a written price to seal the joints properly. Call (806) 606-6902 for an inspection - your return duct is probably leaking right now.
In Ridgecrest: What a 1962 Split-Level Taught Us
In Ridgecrest, our tech opened a supply register on a 1962 split-level with original metal ducts and found fiberglass liner sagging into the airflow, coated in gray-green mold from a crawl space that sits above 80% humidity all winter. After a camera inspection showed collapsed duct tape joints at three elbows, we performed full source removal with negative pressure and HEPA filtration, then sealed the crawl-space penetrations. The homeowner said the musty odor that had persisted through two renovations was finally gone. That’s the Shoreline pattern: the problem isn’t usually the dust you can see. It’s what the camera finds at the first elbow.
Get a Written Price Before You Decide
If your Shoreline home hasn’t had its ducts cleaned in five years or more, or if you’ve just bought a renovated flip near the light rail, call us at (806) 606-6902. We’ll schedule a walkthrough, give you a written price before work starts, and deliver a documented photo record of every duct run when we leave. The 365-Day Done Right Promise means the work is accountable long after the truck leaves. If it’s not right, we make it right. In writing, on every job.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, serving Shoreline since 2013.