Questions homeowners ask before booking

It depends on the number of supplies and returns, the number of air handlers, whether the coil and blower are included and how accessible the equipment is. We count the system and quote before any work starts, and the number we quote is the number you pay. Call and describe the house and we will tell you what we need to see.

Every three to five years suits most homes here. Move it closer to every two or three if you have shedding pets, a household member with asthma, or you have finished a renovation, because construction dust loads a system faster than anything else. After buying a house, clean them before you move in.

Once a year for a typical household, and every six months if you run several loads a day, have a long or complicated run, dry a lot of towels and bedding, or have pets. If a load that used to take one cycle now takes two, the line needs it whatever the calendar says.

Both, and it is the part that decides whether you notice a difference. The evaporator coil and the blower wheel sit directly in the airstream, so leaving them loaded means the system re-dirties the branches you just paid to have cleaned. If a coil is too far gone for cleaning to help, we say so rather than charge for the attempt.

It should not. Drop cloths and corner guards go down before any equipment comes in, the duct system is sealed and put under negative pressure so debris travels toward the vacuum rather than into the room, and on a chimney sweep the fireplace opening is sealed and vacuumed before a brush goes in. We pack out and wipe down before leaving.

Yes. Our New Jersey contractor registration is 13VH12103100, and it is painted on the side of the van. We carry insurance and work residential, commercial and strata. Ask any contractor for both before they are on a ladder in your house.

A whole-house air duct cleaning with one air handler is usually most of a working day. A dryer vent cleaning is about an hour for a typical run. A chimney sweep is shorter. Two systems, a large house or heavy contamination will run longer, and we tell you the expected window when we quote.

Yes, residential, commercial and strata. In multi-unit buildings the limiting factor is usually building access rather than the work itself, particularly where a shared dryer riser terminates on the roof. Tell us the building type when you call and we will tell you what has to be arranged first.

Often, but it is usually not a cleaning job. A room that is consistently off temperature normally means a branch has pulled off its boot, a flex run is crushed, or the duct was undersized when the house was built. That is duct repair, and we will tell you which one you have rather than selling you a cleaning that will not change it.

No. Duct cleaning is mechanical: seal the system, put it under negative pressure, agitate every branch with brushes and air, and remove what comes loose. If there is growth on a coil that cleaning cannot resolve, we tell you and point you at the right remediation rather than spraying something into the air you breathe.

We are based in Elizabeth and work across New Jersey. Twelve areas have their own page — Elizabeth, Westfield and ten counties from Bergen down to Mercer. If your town is not listed, call. It is usually still a yes, and we would rather say so plainly than take a booking we cannot reach.

Photographs of the inside of the system before and after, a plain statement of what we found, and an honest answer about whether anything else is worth doing. Seven of our Google reviews mention those photographs without being prompted, which tells you how unusual it still is to be shown the evidence.