Air duct interior packed with a thick layer of dust and lint before cleaning

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Photographs from real AMG jobs

Every job, inside the duct, before and after.

Air duct, dryer vent and chimney work across New Jersey. Seven of our Google reviews mention the photographs without being asked — this is what they are talking about, and every image below says what it is.

Before and after

The two that are evidence.

Both pairs are real, both from real jobs, and each one is a single line photographed twice — the same duct, the same dryer vent, one cleaning apart. Drag the handle. Everything further down this page is a photograph of work happening, which is a different claim and is labelled as one.

The same air duct interior showing bare metal after AMG cleaned itAfter
Air duct interior packed with a thick layer of dust and lint before cleaningBefore
Air duct, one cleaning apart. The left half is the accumulation a system collects over years of running. The right half is the same duct after the system was sealed, put under negative pressure and brushed out.
The same dryer vent line clear and open after AMG cleaned itAfter
Dryer vent duct completely blocked with compacted lint before cleaningBefore
Dryer vent, one cleaning apart. Compacted lint in a line that had stopped moving air, and the same line clear. This is the fuel removed, not the symptom treated.

Air ducts

Inside the system

Registers, plenums and the runs between them. This is the part of the job a customer never sees unless somebody photographs it.

How a cleaning goes
  • A backpack HEPA vacuum at a ceiling supply. The register comes off, the branch is brushed and whipped, and what comes loose leaves through the machine rather than the room.
    A backpack HEPA vacuum at a ceiling supply. The register comes off, the branch is brushed and whipped, and what comes loose leaves through the machine rather than the room.
  • Working a ceiling supply from a step ladder. Every register on the system gets this, not a sample of them.
    Working a ceiling supply from a step ladder. Every register on the system gets this, not a sample of them.
  • A low exterior vent with its cover off, the well beside it full of leaf litter. Vents at ground level collect whatever the yard drops on them, and they are the ones nobody thinks to check.
    A low exterior vent with its cover off, the well beside it full of leaf litter. Vents at ground level collect whatever the yard drops on them, and they are the ones nobody thinks to check.
  • Rigid galvanised ductwork between joists, joints sealed before anything is closed in.Illustration
    Rigid galvanised ductwork between joists, joints sealed before anything is closed in.

Dryer vents

From the machine to the hood

The blockage is almost always in the last four feet, on the outside, where nobody looks. These are the ends of that run.

How a dryer vent goes
  • Behind a stacked dryer. The machine has to come out to reach the connection, and the compacted lint is usually right there.
    Behind a stacked dryer. The machine has to come out to reach the connection, and the compacted lint is usually right there.
  • An exterior hood set into brick. The damper is checked open — a hood that cannot open is a blocked vent whatever the duct looks like.
    An exterior hood set into brick. The damper is checked open — a hood that cannot open is a blocked vent whatever the duct looks like.
  • Fitting an exterior wall vent on a ladder, sealed at the wall.
    Fitting an exterior wall vent on a ladder, sealed at the wall.
  • A newly installed exterior hood on vinyl siding, damper open and sealed.Illustration
    A newly installed exterior hood on vinyl siding, damper open and sealed.

Chimneys

The flue and what is on top of it

Swept from the crown down, with the cap and crown checked from the roof rather than assumed from the hearth.

How a sweep goes
  • An extension ladder run up the side of a two-storey masonry chimney, van in the drive. The top of the flue is reached from outside, not from the hearth.
    An extension ladder run up the side of a two-storey masonry chimney, van in the drive. The top of the flue is reached from outside, not from the hearth.
  • Working at the top of a chimney, the crown taped off. Cracks up here let water into the flue, and water is what turns creosote into a bigger problem.
    Working at the top of a chimney, the crown taped off. Cracks up here let water into the flue, and water is what turns creosote into a bigger problem.
  • A crown and cap being inspected from the roof.Illustration
    A crown and cap being inspected from the roof.

The crew

Who turns up

Licensed, insured, and in a marked van. Thirty-five reviews mention the team before they mention the work.

About AMG
  • Two technicians in branded shirts in front of the van on a New Jersey driveway.Illustration
    Two technicians in branded shirts in front of the van on a New Jersey driveway.
  • The van, carrying the NJ contractor licence 13VH12103100 and the number to call. The phone number in this photograph was updated to the published line; the rest of the frame is the original photograph.Edited photo
    The van, carrying the NJ contractor licence 13VH12103100 and the number to call. The phone number in this photograph was updated to the published line; the rest of the frame is the original photograph.
  • The housing stock this work happens in: pre-war New Jersey colonials with brick chimneys.Illustration
    The housing stock this work happens in: pre-war New Jersey colonials with brick chimneys.

About these images

What is a photograph and what is not.

  • Both before/after pairs are real

    Same duct, same job, photographed twice. Nothing on this site uses a commissioned image as before-and-after evidence, because that would make the one thing customers trust us for worthless.

  • Five images are commissioned illustrations

    Marked on the image itself. They fill gaps the photo library never had — the crew, new ductwork, a finished exterior hood — and they never claim a specific job.

  • One photograph was edited

    The van’s phone number was changed to the published line on the owner’s instruction. It is labelled, and everything else in that frame is the original photograph.

  • One gap we will not paper over

    There is no before-and-after of a chimney flue yet. Every other service has one. Rather than illustrate it, the gap stays until a real sweep is photographed.

Your job, photographed

You get the same set.

None of this is a portfolio we shot once. It is what every job produces, which is why there is enough of it to fill a page — and why yours will look like this too.

  1. 01

    Before we start

    The inside of the system as we found it — the register, the run behind it, and anything that explains what you have been noticing.

  2. 02

    After we finish

    The same places, same angles. Two pictures of the same spot is the only version of this that means anything.

  3. 03

    What we found

    In plain words, including the parts that are not ours to fix. If nothing needs doing, that is what the report says.

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  • Quoted before any work starts
  • Floors covered before equipment comes in
  • Photographs of what we found and removed
  • No scare tactics, no surprise add-ons
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