Whole-home duct cleaning
Dryer vent cleaning
Camera inspection
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 Los Angeles
Air duct cleaning in Los Angeles for a typical single-family home runs between $450 and $900, depending on the number of systems and how long it’s been since the last cleaning. We serve every corner of the city, from the hills of Silver Lake to the wide streets of the San Fernando Valley, with crews dispatched from our Los Angeles office. If your ducts haven’t been touched in five years or more, you’re breathing everything those ducts have been holding onto. Call (213) 733-0665 and we’ll give you a written price before any work begins.
Why Kestrel Air Duct Los Angeles Is Los Angeles’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We’ve been cleaning ducts under the Kingswell Guarantee since 2004, and the standard hasn’t changed: a written price in your hands before a single vent is touched, a defined arrival window, a clean job site, and a written guarantee on the work. Co-owner Dale Whitmore built this company on a simple rule. Say the price, show up when you said you would, leave the house cleaner than you found it, and come back if anything falls short. That’s the Kingswell Way, and it’s the code every technician follows on every visit.
Los Angeles homeowners call us after other companies have already let them down. A no-show appointment. A price that doubled at the door. A dryer vent that clogged again six weeks after it was supposedly cleaned. We hear these stories constantly. Our response is the same every time: a written estimate, a background-checked technician in uniform, and equipment that actually does the job. Not a box-store shop vac. Rotobrush rotary brush systems, Nikro negative-pressure units, and Abatement Technologies HEPA filtration. Real tools that remove what’s actually in your ducts.
Styles & brands we work with
Key Takeaways
- Full-system air duct cleaning in Los Angeles typically runs $450 – $900 for a single-family home.
- Santa Ana wind events triple our call volume, and the dust they drive into ducts is finer and more stubborn than everyday household dust.
- Older Los Angeles homes, especially those built between the 1920s and 1960s, often have disconnected or crushed original ducts that cleaning alone won’t fix.
- Every job includes a written price before work starts and the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing.
Vent Cleaning in Los Angeles
Vent cleaning in Los Angeles means clearing every supply and return register in the house, plus the duct runs behind them, of dust, pet dander, and the fine particulate that Santa Ana winds push indoors. In a city where windows stay open year-round in some neighborhoods and shut tight in others, what settles in your vents tells a story about where you live. Near the 405 in West LA, it’s brake dust and freeway soot. In the hills above Burbank, it’s wildfire ash. In a 1940s bungalow in Echo Park, it’s often decades of layered dust that’s baked onto the galvanized steel.
Register and Grille Cleaning
We remove every register, wash it, and clean the boot behind it before putting it back. It’s tedious work. It’s also where a lot of companies cut corners. We don’t. If the register has years of baked-on grime, you’ll see the difference the moment we set it back in place.
Supply and Return Run Clearing
Our Air Duct Cleaning team runs a Rotobrush through every accessible supply and return run. The brush agitates debris off the duct walls, and the Nikro negative-pressure unit pulls it out of the system at the same time. Nothing loosened is left floating in your living room. The Abatement Technologies HEPA filter catches it at the source.
Air Duct Repair in Los Angeles
Air duct repair in Los Angeles is often the real fix when cleaning alone keeps disappointing homeowners. In houses built between the 1920s and 1960s, the original galvanized ducts have been sitting in crawl spaces and behind lath-and-plaster walls for sixty to a hundred years. Joints come apart. Runs get crushed by foundation settling or by someone crawling through the attic a decade ago. When a duct is disconnected or collapsed, no amount of cleaning will stop dust from pouring into the house. The repair has to happen first.
Sealing Disconnected and Crushed Runs
We find disconnected runs in Los Angeles homes constantly. Usually it’s a joint that separated behind a wall or above a ceiling, and the homeowner has been living with a room that never quite heats or cools right. We seal the gap with mastic and metal tape, reconnect the run, and then clean the full system. The difference in airflow and dust levels is immediate.
Video Inspection Before Repairs
Before we quote any repair, we run a camera through the ductwork. You’ll see exactly what we see. If a run is crushed beyond saving, we’ll show you the footage and give you a written price to replace that section. If it just needs sealing, you’ll see that too. No guessing. No surprise invoices after the fact.
Trusted Brands We Service in Los Angeles
Most Los Angeles homes have HVAC systems built around a handful of well-known brands, and we work on all of them. Carrier, Rheem, Trane service in Los Angeles, Lennox, Goodman, Bryant, and York are the units we see most often from Echo Park to Baldwin Hills. We also install and maintain Aprilaire and Guardsman filtration products when homeowners want stronger protection against wildfire smoke and urban dust between cleanings. Because our Los Angeles office coordinates scheduling and dispatch locally, we’re usually able to get a crew to most neighborhoods within a few days. Some weeks it’s faster. We’ll tell you when we’ll be there and we’ll be there.
See the difference
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AfterCommon Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Los Angeles Homes
- Santa Ana dust and wildfire ash baked onto duct walls. The low-humidity climate means nothing gets rinsed away naturally. Debris sits, hardens, and resists basic brushing. It takes agitation tools plus HEPA vacuuming to actually remove it.
- Original galvanized ducts from the 1920s – 1960s. Much of Los Angeles’s housing stock is old enough to have original ductwork. These runs corrode, separate at the joints, and get crushed over time. Cleaning helps, but sealing repairs are often the only thing that stops the dust permanently.
- Long vertical runs in coastal high-rises. Condo towers near the water have duct systems that run vertically for many stories. Debris collects at the bottom of these runs and falls back into living spaces if the cleaning isn’t done under proper negative pressure.
- Pet dander in tightly sealed newer homes. Newer Los Angeles construction is often sealed tighter for energy efficiency, which means whatever enters the duct system stays there. In homes with dogs or cats, dander recirculates constantly until the ducts are cleaned and the filter upgraded.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Los Angeles, CA
For a single-family home in Los Angeles, full-system air duct cleaning typically runs $450 to $900. The exact number depends on the size of the home, the number of systems, and how long it’s been since the last cleaning. A small two-bedroom bungalow in Highland Park is on the lower end. A four-bedroom house in Encino with two HVAC systems is on the higher end. Commercial duct cleaning for older multi-unit buildings in neighborhoods like Koreatown and Westlake starts around $900 and goes up from there, since those systems are larger and have been collecting dust through decades of turnover.
The price we quote is the price you pay. That’s the Kingswell Guarantee, and it’s been the same since Dale Whitmore founded the company in 2004. Written price before work begins. No door-step revisions. No surprise line items after the fact. Call (213) 733-0665 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Los Angeles
Our Los Angeles crews also cover Huntington Park, South Gate, Bell, and Maywood. If you’re just outside the city line and need air duct cleaning, call us. Scheduling works the same way it does for everyone else: a written price before work starts and a defined arrival window.
Serving Los Angeles, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles
Santa Ana winds drive fine particulates from the San Gabriel foothills, the high desert, and wildfire zones directly into Los Angeles homes. Our call volume triples after every major wind event. The dust that gets pushed through window screens and HVAC intakes is finer than normal household dust, which means it travels deeper into duct systems and coats surfaces more stubbornly. If you notice a spike in dust on furniture or more sneezing than usual during Santa Ana season, your ducts are likely holding a fresh load of wind-driven debris. Call (213) 733-0665 and we’ll tell you what we’re seeing in your neighborhood.
Older Los Angeles homes, especially those built between the 1920s and 1960s, were fitted with galvanized steel ducts that have been sitting in crawl spaces and attics for decades. Galvanized steel corrodes. Joints separate. Runs get crushed by foundation settling, by earthquakes, or simply by time. When a duct run disconnects behind a wall, the system pulls air from the crawl space or attic instead of from the rooms in your house. That’s why a room might never heat or cool properly and why dust keeps reappearing days after a standard cleaning. The fix is sealing the disconnected run, which our Air Duct Cleaning technicians do every week in Los Angeles.
Rooms that never reach the thermostat temperature, dust that reappears within days of cleaning, and airflow that feels weak from certain registers are the three big signs. In a 1950s Baldwin Hills home, we once found original galvanized steel ducts with disconnected runs behind a lath-and-plaster wall. The homeowner had lived with a dusty guest bedroom for years. After a Rotobrush source removal and negative pressure cleaning, we sealed the gap with mastic and installed a MERV 13 filter at the air handler. The homeowner’s dust accumulation dropped by over half. If any of those symptoms sound familiar, call (213) 733-0665 and we’ll run a video inspection before quoting anything.
Yes, with the right equipment. Wildfire ash is extremely fine and settles deep into duct surfaces. A basic shop-vac style cleaning won’t remove it. We run a Rotobrush through every run to agitate the ash off the duct walls, then pull it out with a Nikro negative-pressure unit. The Abatement Technologies HEPA filter captures the loosened ash before it can re-enter your living space. If you live in a hillside neighborhood like Mount Washington or the Hollywood Hills, where wildfire exposure is a recurring fact of life, clearing your ducts after each fire season is a practical step for indoor air quality. Call (213) 733-0665 for a free estimate.
They do. Older multi-unit buildings in neighborhoods like Koreatown, East Hollywood, and Westlake have duct systems that were installed decades ago and have served dozens of tenants. The buildup is usually heavier, the access points are tighter, and the runs are often shared between units. We approach these jobs differently: more time per floor, more care with negative-pressure containment, and a thorough video inspection before and after. If you manage an older building in Los Angeles and the tenants are reporting dust or poor airflow, call (213) 733-0665. We’ll walk you through what your building actually needs.
Call Kestrel Air Duct Los Angeles for a Free Estimate
If your ducts haven’t been cleaned in five years or more, you’re breathing everything that’s accumulated in them. Los Angeles dust, wildfire ash, pet dander, construction debris from the never-ending building cycle, and whatever else the Santa Anas blew through your windows. We’ll give you a written price before any work begins, show up when we said we would, and stand behind the job with the 365-Day Done Right Promise. Call (213) 733-0665 today and speak with a live person. Not a voicemail queue. A real conversation about what’s happening in your ducts and what it will cost to fix.
Written by Dale Whitmore, Co-Owner at Kestrel Air Duct Los Angeles, serving the Los Angeles area under the Kingswell Guarantee since 2004.