About Us
Simi Valley is where we work every day. That means we know its homes — how they are built, how they are lived in, and what tends to go wrong in them.
You call or book online, and we give you a two-hour arrival window on a day that works for you. We call when we're on the way. The first thing the crew does is walk the house with you: count supply registers, find the returns, pull an access panel, and look at the plenum and the first few feet of duct with a light and a camera. Then we tell you what we found and what the job will cost, out loud, before anyone unrolls a hose. If you want to think about it, we leave. No deposit, no pressure.
Most of what we see in Simi Valley is 1960s-1990s tract construction: attic flex duct, platform returns framed into the floor or wall cavity. That design pulls unfiltered attic air through every gap it has. Attic temperatures routinely exceed 140F here in summer, which degrades flex duct inner liner and mastic over 15-20 years, so the older the run, the more it sheds. Add chaparral fire ash from the Santa Susana corridor, agricultural dust off the Oxnard Plain and Santa Clara River Valley, and spring oak, grass and ragweed pollen, with almost no summer rain to wash any of it out of the air. Cooling seasons run 6-8 months inland. Systems here log more annual hours than the national average, so they need duct service more often. The common calls are dust settling on furniture within a day of cleaning, a return that whistles, uneven rooms at the end of a long run, and a smell when the system first kicks on. We work on Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem and American Standard equipment, gas furnace with split AC or a straight heat pump.
On site we run a truck-mounted vacuum, seal every register with tape and film so the system pulls under negative pressure, then work each branch with rotary brushes and compressed-air whips back toward the trunk. We clean the return side and the blower compartment too, since that's where the load collects. Honest part: plenty of houses don't need this yet. If your ducts are clean and the real problem is a crushed return or leaks pulling attic air, we say so and point you to duct sealing instead. If the dust is coming through a bypassing filter, air filter replacement fixes it for a fraction of the cost. What moves the number on a cleaning is the count of supply runs, whether the system is zoned with more than one air handler, how tight the attic access is, and whether the return is a built platform that has to be opened up and cleaned by hand. Heavy ash or pet load, or a coil that's matted enough to need coil cleaning, adds time as well.
Our service area
We cover Simi Valley and the surrounding towns. If you're in one of these areas and have a air duct cleaning problem, call us. We usually get out the same day.
When is cleaning the wrong recommendation?
It happens more than you would think. We open a return, look at the flex, and the inner liner is already shedding. Brushing that run just sends more fiber into the house. In that case we say so, and we quote replacement of the bad sections instead. Cleaning a duct that is falling apart is wasted work.
Most of Simi Valley is 1960s-1990s tract construction. Attic flex duct and platform returns are common. Many runs stretch over the garage. Attic temperatures routinely exceed 140F here, and that heat cooks the liner and dries out mastic at the collars over fifteen to twenty years. So we judge by condition at the boot and the plenum, not by the age on the furnace label.
Older stock changes the answer again. Homes from the 1920s through the 1950s in Santa Paula, Fillmore and San Fernando often started as gravity furnace conversions, with retrofit ducting pushed through crawlspaces. Some have asbestos-era tape at the joints. We do not disturb suspect tape. That job goes to abatement first, and we come back after.
A leaking return is usually the real problem. It pulls chaparral ash and Oxnard Plain ag dust straight into the blower. Seal it, or you clean the same dust again next year.
Call us at (805) 951-1480. We'll tell you the price before we start. You can also reach us through the contact page if you'd rather send a message.
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