A Little 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 it, and put the duct system under negative pressure before anything else happens. Then we seal every supply and return register in the house so the only air moving is air moving toward the vacuum. From there the crew works room by room with rotary brushes and whip lines, feeding them down each branch run and pushing debris back toward the trunk and out to the truck. Returns get the same treatment, usually dirtier than the supplies. We pull and clean the registers and grilles, check the blower compartment and the area around the coil, and close up the access with a sealed patch panel. Most single-system homes take a half day. Two systems or a long crawlspace layout takes longer.

We work on Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem and American Standard equipment, gas furnaces with AC, heat pumps, and the older coastal systems that are heat-only. A fair number of calls here turn out to be something other than dirty ducts. If your airflow is weak and the filter is packed, that's a filter problem, and we'll say so. If you're losing conditioned air into a crawlspace through separated joints or failed mastic, cleaning won't fix it and sealing the ducts will. If the smell is coming off a dirty evaporator coil, coil cleaning is the right call. We open the system, show you what's in there with a camera or by hand, and tell you honestly if it doesn't need cleaning yet. Plenty of people get told to come back in two years.

Where you sit in the North Bay changes what we find. Bodega Bay and the coastal strip deal with persistent humidity and salt aerosol, and systems that sit idle for long stretches then run heat through damp winters. Moisture settles in duct runs, crawlspace ducts sweat, and the problem is mold and mildew on liner and insulation rather than heat-driven dust. Ten to twenty miles east on the Santa Rosa Plain it flips: dry 90s-plus summers, a three to five month cooling season, systems running hard and pulling in grass and oak pollen, vineyard and orchard dust, and wildfire smoke. Returns in Sonoma County homes still hold fine ash from the 2017 Tubbs, 2019 Kincade and 2020 Glass and Walbridge fires. Rainy season from November through April spikes humidity countywide, and crawlspace ducts under raised-foundation homes are where it shows up first. On cost, what moves the number here is how many systems you have, how much of the run is in a crawlspace and how accessible it is, whether there's mold on the liner that needs treatment beyond vacuuming, and whether the ducts are flex or sheet metal. Older coastal homes with long crawlspace runs and fiberglass liner are the heavier jobs. A newer inland house with a short attic run is the lighter one.