Whole-home duct 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 Mission Bend
Duct cleaning in Mission Bend runs $380 to $690 for a full single-family system. That includes the supply side, the return side, the plenums, and the equipment cabinet. Most homes here were built between the 1970s and 1990s, so the ductwork is original flex and duct board. It is not rare for us to find twenty pounds of dust, hair, and skin cells inside a system that looked fine from the outside. We have crews in Mission Bend weekly, not occasionally. Call (713) 936-5800 and a live person answers, any hour of the day. You get a written price before anyone touches your system.
Why Hollis Air Duct Houston Is Mission Bend’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We are not a franchise that sends whoever drew the short straw. Each Hollis location is independently owned and operated under The Garrison Standard. That standard is simple: arrive inside the window, price it in writing, do the job by the book, and leave the site clean. Air Duct Cleaning in Mission Bend means working on forty-year-old interior duct board and sagging flex runs. A crew that only knows new construction will miss what actually matters here. Ours does not.
Roy Castellanos runs our Houston operation. He built a reputation doing the jobs other companies walked away from, the flood-soaked systems and the brittle original flex. When you call and ask for us to come to Mission Bend, you will hear the same thing every time: “We’ll be there.” Background-checked, uniformed technicians. Rotobrush rotary brush systems and Nikro negative-air machines in the truck. And every job is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If the work fails within a year, we come back and make it right at no charge. Including a free second visit. That is not a marketing line. That is the contract.
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Ductwork Cleaning in Mission Bend
Ductwork cleaning in Mission Bend is different from almost any suburb on the west side. The homes are slab-on-grade, built tight to the Gulf Coast humidity, with return registers tucked into hallway ceilings where nobody looks. That means the return side pulls air from the hottest, dustiest part of the house and deposits it into ductwork that has been collecting since the Carter administration. Our process starts with the whole picture, not just the supply vents. We run a video inspection through the return and supply sides, note any sagging, disconnected, or torn flex, then run a negative-air machine with HEPA filtration while agitation tools break the debris free at the source. You get photos before and after. That is how you know the work was actually done.
Original Flex Duct in 1970s-1990s Builds
Mission Bend’s housing stock was built when flex duct was new technology and installers thought it would last forever. It does not. The inner liner breaks down, the insulation separates, and condensation pools in the low spots from AC that runs nearly year-round. A cleaning that ignores this reality just stirs up fiberglass particles. We inspect first. Then we decide what can be cleaned safely and what needs replacement.
Source Removal, Not Just Vent Sweeping
Source removal means the debris comes out of the duct, not just off the register face. We use negative pressure to keep the junk from blowing into your living room, and agitation tools to break up the matted dust on the duct walls. Systems this age often have a quarter inch of caked material on the return side. It takes time. It is worth doing once, correctly.
Air Duct Inspection in Mission Bend
Air duct inspection in Mission Bend is the step most companies skip, and it is the step that saves you from paying for a cleaning that will not solve your problem. We charge $150 to $250 for a camera inspection with written findings and photos. If you hire us for the full cleaning afterward, we credit the inspection fee toward the job. The camera tells you what your nostrils cannot: whether the duct board is delaminating, whether the flex is sagging with condensation, whether there is water in the return plenum from a storm that hit a month ago.
Post-Storm Water Intrusion Checks
After a heavy rain or flash flood, water gets into the attic through roof penetrations around the air handler. It soaks the duct board. Within days, that becomes mold. A camera inspection after a storm tells you whether the duct can be dried and cleaned or whether the material is saturated enough to fail an adjuster’s review. We write that finding down with moisture readings and time-stamped photos.
Ceiling Return Registers in Hallways
Most Mission Bend homes have one or two return registers in the hallway ceiling. They are out of sight. They almost never get cleaned by homeowners because nobody climbs a ladder to look. When we inspect, we often find a dust mat thick enough to lift off in a sheet. That mat restricts airflow, strains the blower motor, and makes the whole house feel stuffy in August. The camera finds it. Then we clean it.
Trusted Brands We Service in Mission Bend
We do not work on exotic one-off systems. We service the stuff actually installed in Mission Bend homes. That means Honeywell filtration media, Aprilaire air cleaners, and standard residential flex and metal duct configurations. Our trucks carry Rotobrush rotary brush systems and Nikro negative-air machines, the same class of equipment used on commercial jobs. When a Mission Bend homeowner has a Honeywell electronic air cleaner or an Aprilaire media cabinet that has not been opened in years, we have the replacement filters and the knowledge to frame it correctly. No hardware-store gear. No improvised tools. Just the equipment the trade actually uses, explained plainly so you understand what is being done in your home.
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AfterCommon Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Mission Bend Homes
- Saturated duct board from attic water intrusion. Mission Bend’s flat roof penetrations and aging flashing let water into the attic during storms, and it soaks directly into interior duct board. Cleaning that board does not fix it. It needs replacement, with documentation for the insurer.
- Thick dust mats on ceiling-mounted returns. The return registers in Mission Bend hallways sit high out of sight. They collect a dense, felt-like mat of dust and skin cells that halves airflow and strains the blower. This is the most common finding on our camera inspections in this neighborhood.
- Sagging and torn original flex duct. Forty-year-old flex duct loses its shape, sags between trusses, and traps condensation. Running a rotary brush through brittle, sagging flex without inspecting it first risks tearing the liner or disconnecting a joint. We always camera first.
- Fiberglass particle shedding from degrading duct board. The interior duct board common in 1970s and 1980s Mission Bend builds breaks down over decades of humidity. The fiberglass particles become airborne and coat the supply registers. Source removal with HEPA filtration is the only way to get them out without spreading them through the house.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Mission Bend, TX
A single-family Mission Bend home, one HVAC system, runs $380 to $690 for a complete source-removal cleaning. That is the price for the whole job: supply and return ducts, plenums, registers, and equipment cabinet. Duct board that is water-damaged or delaminating is not a cleaning issue. That is a replacement issue, and we quote it separately after inspection. We never price per vent and we never hand you a coupon price that doubles when the technician walks through the door. The price is written before work starts and it does not move. Call (713) 936-5800 for an exact quote on your Mission Bend home. Estimates are free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Mission Bend
In addition to Mission Bend, our crews cover Air Duct Cleaning for homeowners in Houston, Spring, Humble, and League City. Same written pricing, same inspection-first approach, same 365-Day Done Right Promise on every job.
Serving Mission Bend, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Mission Bend 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 Mission Bend
Sometimes, but only if the water was clean, brief, and the duct material dried within 48 hours. Original 1980s flex with soaked insulation and interior duct board that has delaminated cannot be cleaned back to a safe condition. The material loses structural integrity and the mold grows inside the insulation layer, not on the surface. If you try to clean that, you will pay for a cleaning and still have mold. We tell you which it is, with camera photos and moisture readings. If it needs replacement, we write the finding so your insurer can see it. Call (713) 936-5800 to schedule an inspection.
Because the return register is high on the ceiling, out of sight, and it pulls air from the warmest part of the house, where dust, pet hair, and skin cells concentrate before settling into the return. Older flex duct in Mission Bend also tends to have sagging sections that pinch off airflow, which makes the return side pull harder. A proper cleaning gets the entire return run, not just the visible register face. If you are still getting mats a month later, the duct is probably damaged and needs a camera look.
Mission Bend air conditioners run from April through October, and the humidity is relentless. The cold air inside the ducts meets the warm, wet attic air outside, and condensation forms on the duct surfaces. In original 1970s and 1980s flex and duct board, that moisture soaks in and creates a perfect home for mildew and mold. This is why inspecting and cleaning ducts in Mission Bend is a recurring maintenance item, not a once-a-decade event. The climate here never stops working against the ductwork.
Yes. We ran a camera through a 1984 Mission Bend home on Rustling Leaves Drive after a summer thunderstorm pushed water through an attic-mounted air handler. We found sagging flex with standing condensation and fiberglass particle shedding. The duct board section was saturated and delaminating. We took moisture readings, photographed the damage, and wrote a replacement recommendation. The homeowner submitted it and the adjuster approved the claim. That is the difference between a cleaning bill and a covered repair. If you have storm damage, schedule the inspection before anyone attempts a cleaning.
Source removal with negative pressure and HEPA filtration, done after a camera inspection. You do not want a rotary brush jammed into brittle 1980s flex without knowing what the liner looks like. That is how tears and disconnects happen, and repairs on slab-on-grade homes are expensive because access is tight. The right method starts with the camera, then uses a negative-air machine to keep debris from blowing into the house while agitation tools break the material free at the source. Call (713) 936-5800 for a free estimate on your Mission Bend home.
Our crew recently cleaned a 1984 Mission Bend home on Rustling Leaves Drive after a summer thunderstorm pushed water through an attic-mounted air handler. We ran a camera inspection through the supply and return ducts, found sagging flex duct with standing condensation and fiberglass particle shedding, then used negative pressure with HEPA filtration and agitation tools to perform NADCA-compliant source removal. For the saturated duct board section, we documented the delamination and wrote a replacement recommendation with photos and moisture readings so the homeowner’s insurer approved the claim.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Houston, serving Mission Bend and the west Houston area.