Whole-home duct cleaning
Dryer vent cleaning
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Sanitizing & deodorizingWhole-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.
Fast, Reliable Air Duct Cleaning Across Aldine
Air duct cleaning in Aldine runs between $380 and $720 for a full residential system, and the job usually takes 4 to 6 hours. That price includes cleaning of supply and return ducts, blower cabinet, and coil, plus a video inspection before and after. Call (713) 936-5800 for a written quote based on your home’s actual duct layout. We serve Aldine neighborhoods from Aldine Mail Route to the Hardy Toll Road corridor, and our crews know these homes because we work in them every week.
Aldine is not a new subdivision with uniform floor plans. It’s a patchwork of ranch homes built from the 1950s through the 1980s, many on pier-and-beam foundations, many with original flex duct that has been in place for decades. That changes how the work is done, and honestly, it changes what the work should cost. A newer home in a master-planned community might need a straightforward clean. An older Aldine home often needs a clean plus leak sealing plus possibly a section of duct replaced. We’ll tell you which one you’re looking at before anyone touches the system.
Why Hollis Air Duct Houston Is Aldine’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We have worked on hundreds of homes in and around Aldine, many of them built during the 1960s and 1970s, many of them with the same original ductwork they were built with. That experience matters because the problems in Aldine are not the same as the problems in Katy or Sugar Land. Our techs know what to expect when they open an attic hatch in a ranch home off Aldine Bender Road: original flex, years of dust, maybe a crushed return run, maybe signs of condensation on the duct shell. They know because they have seen it before and they know what it takes to fix it.
Every Aldine job gets the same treatment. Roy Castellanos sets the standard: written price before work starts, background-checked and uniformed techs inside the home, and a job done by the book under the Garrison Code. That code means arriving inside the window we quoted, respecting the house, leaving the site cleaner than we found it, and standing behind the work for 365 days. If a repair fails within a year, we come back at no charge. That includes a second visit, not negotiated after the fact. Written into the estimate.
Phones ring to a live person 24 hours a day, every day. When an Aldine homeowner calls at 6 a.m. because their AC has been running nonstop and the house still smells musty, they get a person, not a voicemail. Scheduling and dispatch are coordinated from our Houston office, and crews make the drive to Aldine daily.
Styles & brands we work with
Residential Air Duct Cleaning in Aldine
Residential Air Duct Cleaning in Aldine means more than running a brush through the supply ducts. On these older homes, it means inspecting the full run: supply, return, plenum, blower cabinet, coil, and the connections at every register. We use negative-air machines and rotary brush systems, Rotobrush and Nikro equipment, paired with HEPA filtration so that what we remove from the ducts leaves the house, not the air inside it. Most Aldine homes we see have never had their ducts cleaned once since the house was built. That’s 40, 50, sometimes 60 years of accumulation.
A full residential clean in Aldine is priced between $380 and $720 depending on the size of the house, the number of returns, and whether the ducts are accessible from the attic or under the house in a pier-and-beam crawlspace. We give you that number in writing before the work begins and it does not move.
Supply and Return Duct Work
Supply ducts carry conditioned air out; return ducts pull air back. In Aldine ranch homes the returns are often undersized and sometimes kinked or crushed where they pass through tight joist openings. We clean both runs and flag any section that is collapsed, disconnected, or leaking.
If we find a damaged section, we show you the video. You see what we see. Then we give you a repair price. You approve it in writing before we touch it. No surprise at the end.
Video Inspection Included
Every residential job includes a video inspection before and after. The before video shows the condition of the ducts. The after video shows what was removed and what the system looks like when we are done. You keep both. It’s the only honest way to know the work was actually done.
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in Aldine
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in Aldine covers retail spaces, churches, small office buildings, clinics, and the strip centers along Aldine Mail Route and Airline Drive. These buildings have their own set of problems: flat roofs, rooftop units, long duct runs, and tenant turnover that leaves years of debris behind. We clean supply and return systems, plenums, and rooftop unit cabinets with HEPA-filtered negative air and rotary brush equipment. We work around business hours where possible, or after hours when the building needs it.
Pricing for commercial work depends on square footage, number of rooftop units, and how many hours of access we get. A small office building in Aldine typically falls between $700 and $1,500. A retail strip center with three to five units runs higher. We provide a fixed written price before we begin, same as residential.
Retail and Office Spaces
Offices off Aldine Bender with drop ceilings and shared ductwork collect dust and odor from years of use. We clean the main trunk lines, individual branch runs, and the return air path. Then we replace filters and seal any obvious leaks at the plenum.
Retail spaces built into strip centers often share a rooftop unit with the tenant next door. We map the duct runs so we are cleaning your space, not the neighbor’s, and we give the landlord a report with video.
Churches and Community Buildings
Aldine has a number of established churches and community spaces with older HVAC infrastructure. These buildings run their systems hard on Sundays and sporadically through the week, which means dust and mold get pulled into the ducts when the system cycles. We schedule around service days and provide the same written-pricing and video-inspection standard we use on every commercial job.
Trusted Brands We Service in Aldine
We work on systems carrying Guardsman, Honeywell, and Aprilaire filtration products, and we use Rotobrush and Nikro equipment on every job. These are the same tools commercial remediation crews use, which matters when you’re clearing decades of dust and mold from a 1960s duct system. We stock common replacement parts for these systems, so when we find a failed damper or a cracked condensate pan in an Aldine attic, we can often correct it the same day rather than returning on a second visit. For duct sealing, we use mastic, not tape. Mastic stays flexible and it seals. Tape dries up and fails, and in Aldine’s humidity, fails fast.
See the difference
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AfterCommon Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Aldine Homes
- Crushed and collapsed flex duct. On a ranch home off Aldine Mail Route near the old high school, our crew ran a camera through a return duct and found a 12-foot section of original flex crushed flat where it passed over a floor joist. The blower had been fighting it for years. We removed the section, sealed the plenum with mastic, and reinstalled new R-8 flex before running negative pressure with HEPA filtration through the supply and return runs.
- Pier-and-beam crawlspace dust intrusion. Many Aldine homes sit on pier-and-beam foundations. The duct runs in the crawlspace pull dust, moisture, and whatever else is down there through open seams, which is why a basic clean alone often fails within months if the ducts are not sealed.
- Condensation on attic ducts. Attic ducts wrapped in minimal insulation sweat in the humid months. Water drips onto the insulation and the ceiling below. We see this all over Aldine, especially on older homes where the original duct wrap has sagged or torn away entirely.
- Mold and mildew in the coil and drain pan. With AC running nearly year-round, the evaporator coil never fully dries out. In Aldine, that means mold in the coil, in the condensate pan, and in the first few feet of the supply plenum. A duct cleaning that skips the coil misses half the problem.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Aldine, TX
For a single-family home in Aldine, a full residential duct cleaning runs $380 to $720. That covers supply and return ducts, blower cabinet, coil cleaning, and after-cleaning video inspection. If we find a crushed or disconnected section inside the attic or crawlspace, you get a separate written repair price before any extra work begins. Duct sealing on a typical Aldine ranch, where we seal plenums, boots, and accessible seams with mastic, runs $250 to $500. Replacing a section of rotted flex duct runs $150 to $400 per run depending on length and attic access. Call (713) 936-5800 and we will give you a fixed written price for your house, not a range with a surprise at the door.
Some companies quote a low per-vent price and then inflate the invoice once the tech sees the attic. We do not work that way. The price we give you is the price on the invoice. We have been doing this since 2004 and we have no interest in fighting a customer at the end of a job.
We Also Serve Cities Near Aldine
Our crews cover Aldine and the surrounding areas, including Houston, Spring, Humble, and League City. If you are just outside Aldine proper, call us and we will confirm whether your home falls in our service area. Scheduling and dispatch run through our Houston office, and we route crews to Aldine every weekday. Need a quote for Air Duct Cleaning nearby? We’ll send the same written-price estimate no matter which side of the city line you are on.
Serving Aldine, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Aldine 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 About Air Duct Cleaning in Aldine
Because a duct with open seams or gaps pulls attic or crawlspace air into the system every time the blower runs, which means whatever we just cleaned gets contaminated again within weeks. In Aldine’s older homes, especially pier-and-beam ranches from the 1960s and 1970s, the seams in the original ductwork have often opened up from decades of heat and humidity. We include a leak and crush inspection on every clean. If the runs are not sealed, the clean will not hold. Call (713) 936-5800 and we will explain exactly what we found and what sealing would cost.
Most Aldine homes need air duct cleaning every 3 to 5 years. That is shorter than the national average, and it is because the AC runs almost continuously from April through October, pulling in dust, moisture, and anything the return air carries. If your home has never been cleaned and it was built before 1990, you may want to do it once now, then re-evaluate every few years based on the video we take. If you have pets, smokers in the home, or recent construction dust, the interval gets shorter.
We stop, show you the camera footage, and give you a written price to repair or replace the section before we do anything else. If it is safe and minor, we may be able to reseat a disconnected section and seal the joint with mastic. If the flex is crushed flat or torn, it gets replaced with new R-8 flex. You approve the price in writing, we do the repair, then we continue with the full cleaning.
Yes. In a pier-and-beam home, the duct runs often sit in the crawlspace below the floor, so every gap in a seam is an opening to crawlspace dust, moisture, and whatever else is down there. Slab homes have their own issues, usually with attic duct condensation, but the crawlspace problem is specific to pier-and-beam construction and we see it constantly in Aldine. That is why a cleaning on a crawlspace duct system should almost always include sealing work at the same time.
The short answer is yes, much of the time. That muggy smell usually comes from mold and mildew growing on the coil, in the condensate pan, and inside the first sections of the supply ducts where condensation collects. A proper cleaning removes that growth and the dust it feeds on. Then sealing the ducts and checking the coil drain pan keeps it from coming back. If the smell is inside the walls or from flooring damage, that’s a different problem, and we’ll tell you that too. Call (713) 936-5800 for a straight answer on what’s causing the smell in your house.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Houston, serving Aldine since 2004.