About Us

A job starts with the truck-mounted vacuum. We run the hose in through a cut access point at the main trunk, seal around it, and put the system under negative pressure before a single brush goes in. Then we cap every supply and return register with plastic so the suction pulls through the duct instead of the room. The crew works return side first, then supplies, boot by boot, using rotating brushes and compressed-air whips sized to the duct: stiffer heads for sheet metal, gentler ones for flex so we don't tear the inner liner. Blower compartment, blower wheel, and the cabinet floor get hand-cleaned, because that's where the heaviest loading usually sits. We close the access with a sealed patch panel, not tape. Before and after photos of the trunk and a few boots come with the job, so you're not taking our word for it. We work on Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, and American Standard equipment, gas furnaces and heat pumps alike.

Santa Clara Valley sits in a rain shadow with a dry season of five to six months. Fine valley soil dust, construction dust from constant Bay Area building, and spring grass and oak pollen off the surrounding foothills load return systems, and the valley agricultural legacy south toward Gilroy adds field and dust drift. Wildfire smoke seasons from late summer through fall have repeatedly pushed regional PM2.5 to unhealthy levels, and that smoke particulate settles in ductwork and re-enters every time the blower starts. That's the call we get most. Second most common: attic runs here bake at 130-150°F in summer, which degrades older flex duct inner liner and mastic, breaking joints and pulling attic insulation fiber and dust into the airstream. We also see sweating plenums, since the summer delta breeze and coastal fog intrusion push humid marine air inland overnight and cold supply metal in an unconditioned attic will condense. In homes 40 to 70 years old, we still find original sheet metal with decades of loading packed at the boots and returns.

Sometimes we open the trunk, look, and tell you to skip it. A system that's three years old with a decent filter kept current usually doesn't need cleaning, and we'd rather say so than sell you an afternoon of work. If the real problem is a filter that's too restrictive or getting changed twice a year instead of quarterly, we'll point you to air filter replacement. If dust keeps coming back because attic joints have let go, duct sealing fixes the cause and cleaning alone won't. If airflow is weak and the ducts are clean, it's often the evaporator, and coil cleaning is the shorter job. On cost: what moves the number here is the count of supply and return drops, whether the system is one zone or two, how tight the attic crawl is over the runs, and whether we're dealing with intact sheet metal or deteriorated flex that has to be handled slowly. Smoke-season soot and heavy construction dust take more passes than ordinary household loading. We walk the house and count registers before quoting, so nothing gets guessed at over the phone.