Service 01 of 06
Every run, both plenums, the coil.
We seal the system, put it under negative pressure, and drive the dust out with rotary brushes and air whips — so what comes loose leaves the house instead of settling in the next room.
In short
Yes — AMG cleans residential and commercial air ducts throughout New Jersey, and a real cleaning means the whole system, not the first eighteen inches behind the grille. Our crews clean every supply run and return run, the supply and return plenums, the blower compartment, the registers and the grilles. The method matters more than the machine: the ductwork is put under negative pressure by a high-volume vacuum, then each branch is agitated with rotary brushes and compressed-air whips so the buildup breaks loose and travels out of the house rather than deeper into it. We inspect and count vents before quoting, protect floors and walkways before any equipment comes through the door, and photograph the inside of the duct before and after so you can see exactly what came out. Customers name that documentation in seven of our Google reviews. Free estimate, quoted before work starts.
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What you get
Every job is photographed inside the duct before and after. You get to look at the same thing the technician looked at, and decide for yourself whether the work was worth doing. Seven separate Google reviews mention those photos by name.
Drop cloths and corner guards go down before the first tool comes inside. The vacuum runs on negative pressure, so the debris we knock loose is pulled out of the house rather than pushed into the next room. We pack out and wipe down before we leave.
We count supplies and returns, look at the air handler and check access before we quote anything. There is no on-site discovery of new problems that triples the figure. If the system genuinely needs something we did not see, we tell you and you decide.
AMG holds New Jersey contractor registration 13VH12103100 and carries insurance. The technicians are locally hired, uniformed, and used to working in occupied homes with pets, kids and furniture already in place.
When to call
Step by step
We walk the house and count every supply and return, find the air handler, and identify where the trunk can be accessed. Nothing is quoted before this.
Drop cloths on flooring, guards on corners and door frames, equipment staged outside where it belongs.
The vacuum connects to the main trunk and the system is sealed, so everything we dislodge travels toward the machine and out of the house.
Rotary brushes and compressed-air whips work each supply and return line so the buildup breaks free instead of compacting further down the run.
Registers and grilles come off and get washed, the return plenum is wiped down, and the blower compartment is cleared.
We walk you through the photos, tell you what we found, and say plainly whether anything else is worth doing.
Most of what a homeowner notices — the dust that reappears two days after cleaning, the smell in the first minute of a cycle — comes from the two components a cheap duct cleaning never touches. The evaporator coil sits directly in the airstream and catches everything the filter misses; when it is loaded, air passes through a mat of dust every time the system runs. The blower wheel is worse, because each cupped fin holds its own crust and throws particles down the trunk at speed. Cleaning the branches while leaving those two dirty is why some homeowners tell us they have had their ducts done twice already and cannot see a difference. We open the air handler, clear the blower compartment and clean the coil carefully enough not to bend the fins. If a coil is beyond what cleaning can fix, we say so rather than charge for the attempt.
The mix is regional and it is predictable. Winter here runs dry and long, so forced-air systems cycle for months and pull skin cells, pet dander and textile fibres into the return. Spring loads the same system with tree pollen — New Jersey sits in one of the heaviest oak and maple belts on the East Coast. Summer humidity is the part people underestimate: when a coil sweats and the duct downstream is dusty, you have the two ingredients for microbial growth, which is what the musty first-minute smell usually is. Then there is renovation dust, which behaves differently from household dust because it is sharp, fine and heavy on gypsum, and it stays in a plenum for years. Three of our Google reviews mention mould specifically; that is the humidity half of the list showing up in real houses.
The same crew handles offices, restaurants, retail units and strata buildings, which is written on the side of the van for a reason. The differences are access and scheduling rather than method: rooftop units, longer trunk runs, ceiling grids that have to go back exactly as they came down, and work windows that often start after your closing time. For a strata or property manager, the useful part of the report is not the invoice but the photo set — a per-unit record of what the system looked like before and after, which is the thing that ends the argument with a tenant or a board.
Before you book
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 — construction dust is the single fastest way to load a duct system. After buying a house, clean them before you move in, because nobody can tell you what the previous owner ran through the system.
For a typical single-family home with one air handler, plan on most of a working day. Two systems, a large house, or heavy contamination will run longer. We tell you the expected window when we quote, and if a job turns out to need more time than we said, that is our problem rather than a reason to add to the bill.
Yes, 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 will tell you rather than charge for the attempt.
It should not, and that is the point of the method. The system is sealed and put under negative pressure before anything is agitated, so debris travels toward the vacuum instead of out through the registers. Floors and walkways are covered before equipment comes in, and we pack out and wipe down before leaving.
It removes the reservoir — the dander, pollen and fibre that sits in the ducts and gets recirculated every time the system runs. It cannot fix a source that keeps refilling it, so we will also tell you plainly if the filter is wrong for the system, if there is a return pulling from a dusty basement, or if the real problem is somewhere other than the ductwork.
Also on the same system
Leaks, disconnects and crushed runs in the system you already have.
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The dryer line — from the machine, through the wall, to the outside hood.
See the work
New runs for additions, replacements for systems past sealing.
See the workOpen 24 hours, by appointment. Tell us the system, the symptom and the town.
(877) 824-9359What people say
5.0
396 reviews on Google
What reviewers mention most
Leo and his team were professional and did a great job with the cleaning and the vent repair. Will definitely recommend
Cleaning and vent repair
I had a great experience with your technicians Leo and Danny. The work professionally and communicate with the client. Thank you for your service!!
Air duct cleaning
Danny was fast and reliable, replaced my dryer vent quickly and was very professional. Would look forward to working with you again.
Dryer vent replacement
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