Whole-home duct cleaning
Dryer vent cleaning
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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 Pacific Palisades
Most standard air duct cleanings in Pacific Palisades run between $450 and $850 for a typical single-system home, and larger homes with two or three systems run higher. We schedule Pacific Palisades jobs every day of the week, with crews that know the Alphabet Streets, Marquez Knolls, the Riviera, and the hillside streets off Sunset Boulevard. If you’re noticing dust returning to your registers within days of cleaning, or if your home survived the 2020 Palisades Fire with its ducts intact, you’re likely dealing with particulates a standard cleaning won’t touch. Call (559) 295-5878 and we’ll walk you through what your house actually needs.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Woodland Hills Is Pacific Palisades’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We built our reputation in Pacific Palisades on the jobs other companies walk away from: hillside homes with tight attic access, 1950s galvanized ductwork that’s never been touched, and post-fire systems loaded with fine ash that standard brushes just push around. Homeowners here don’t have time for vague estimates or a tech who shows up with a truck-mounted shop vac and calls it professional. Every Pacific Palisades job gets a written price before any work starts, a live arrival window you can track on your phone, and before-and-after photo proof of what came out of your ducts.
Omar Haddad leads our team, and he’s the person who set the standard we work under: one flat price per system, agreed to in writing, with no change at the door. That matters in Pacific Palisades, where a three-system hillside contemporary can run into five figures if a company prices by the vent. We price by the system, not by the register, so you know the total before we touch a single duct.
We also operate under The Relay Visibility Guarantee. That’s not marketing language; it’s how every booking works. You get a trackable arrival time, photo documentation of the work, and a digital invoice you can pay from a link. No phone tag, no four-hour windows, no wondering what happened inside your walls.
Styles & brands we work with
Air Duct Inspection in Pacific Palisades
Air duct inspection in Pacific Palisades is what we recommend before any cleaning quote on a home built before 1990 or any house that stood through the Palisades Fire with its HVAC intact. A proper inspection here runs $150 to $300 and takes about an hour. We run a camera through your supply and return runs, checking for rust scale, fire ash accumulation, disconnected joints, and the kind of corrosion that salt air accelerates in galvanized ducts near the bluffs.
What the Camera Actually Shows
The camera shows us what you’ve been breathing and what a standard cleaning would miss. In older Pacific Palisades homes, we regularly find rust flakes shedding from the inside of galvanized ducts. In post-fire homes, we find a fine gray film coating the duct walls, even in homes that were never directly damaged.
When Inspection Is Non-Negotiable
If you bought a home in the Alphabet Streets or Marquez Knolls and no one can tell you when the ducts were last opened, get inspected before you get cleaned. We’ve seen original 1950s ductwork in these neighborhoods that had never been serviced. An inspection tells you whether cleaning is enough or whether you’re looking at sealing and repair work first.
Residential Air Duct Cleaning in Pacific Palisades
Residential air duct cleaning in Pacific Palisades means working around the realities of this housing stock: tight attics, long runs, multiple systems, and homes worth enough that the last thing you want is a careless tech denting a wall. A standard single-system home here cleans for $450 to $850. Two-system homes run $800 to $1,200. Three-system hillside properties run higher, and we’ll give you an exact written price before work starts.
We run Rotobrush agitation tools and Nikro HEPA vacuums in negative pressure, which means the debris we loosen goes straight into containment, not back into your living room. For post-fire homes in Pacific Palisades, HEPA filtration isn’t an upgrade; it’s the only way to actually remove fine ash rather than redistributing it through your registers.
Hillside and Tight-Attic Access
We do not charge extra for difficult access in Pacific Palisades. A hillside contemporary off Chautauqua with a crawlspace attic takes longer than a mid-century ranch with a walk-in attic, but that’s our problem to solve, not a surprise line on your invoice. We also offer Dryer Vent Cleaning in Pacific Palisades for homes that need both services handled in one visit. Our techs are used to running equipment in tight spaces and we bring containment mats for finished attics.
Systems With Multiple Returns
Homes in the Riviera and Huntington Palisades often have two or three returns per floor. A per-system price protects you here. You’re not paying extra per vent; you’re paying for a complete cleaning of the entire system, including all supply runs, all returns, the plenum, and the blower housing.
Trusted Brands We Service in Pacific Palisades
We work on and service systems built around Aprilaire filtration, Guardsman sanitization, and Abatement Technologies containment. For Pacific Palisades homes with original ductwork, we frequently recommend adding or upgrading in-line filtration after cleaning, especially in homes near the bluffs where salt air keeps working on exposed metal. We carry the common filter and access-component sizes for Pacific Palisades systems on our trucks, which means fewer follow-up visits for straightforward replacements.
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AfterCommon Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Pacific Palisades Homes
- Palisades Fire ash in intact systems. Homes that were never touched by flame still have fine ash in their ductwork from weeks of smoke exposure. Standard brushes just push it around. HEPA negative-pressure extraction is the only way to remove it.
- Corroded galvanized ducts near the bluffs. Decades of salt-laden ocean air eats galvanized steel from the inside. We find rust scale shedding into the airflow in homes along Castellammare and the Via Mesa bluffs, and it keeps shedding until the duct is sealed or replaced.
- Original 1950s-60s runs in the Alphabet Streets and Marquez Knolls. These systems were installed when returns were undersized and joints were wrapped in cloth tape. The tape degrades, the joints leak, and attic air gets pulled into the conditioned space. Cleaning without sealing just repeats the problem.
- High-end finishes that can’t be touched. Pacific Palisades new builds have walls, floors, and fixtures that cost more than some cars. We lay containment and use corner guards at every register we touch, and we photo-document surfaces before and after so there’s no question about damage.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Pacific Palisades, CA
Here are the honest numbers. A single-system home in Pacific Palisades: $450 to $850. A two-system home: $800 to $1,200. A three-system hillside property with long runs and multiple returns: $1,200 to $2,000, and that depends on access and liner condition. Inspection-only runs $150 to $300.
What affects cost: system count, the age and condition of the ductwork, whether fire ash or salt corrosion is present, and whether we’re sealing joints after cleaning. What does not affect cost: how big your house looks from the street, how nice your neighborhood is, or how much the tech thinks you can pay. The price we hand you in writing is the price you pay, backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the work isn’t done right within a year, we return and correct it at no charge. Call (559) 295-5878 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Pacific Palisades
We run routes through Pacific Palisades and into the surrounding communities, including Topanga, Sherman Oaks, Encino, and Tarzana. If you’re in one of those areas and need the same written pricing and photo documentation we provide in Pacific Palisades, call (559) 295-5878 and ask for Omar Haddad’s team. For a full picture of what we do, that’s our Air Duct Cleaning service.
Serving Pacific Palisades, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Pacific Palisades 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 Pacific Palisades
The fire left fine ash and soot inside thousands of intact HVAC systems across Pacific Palisades, even in homes that never saw direct flame damage. A standard brush-and-vacuum cleaning cannot remove particles that fine, which is why HEPA negative-pressure extraction is required. We see this in homes from the Alphabet Streets up through Marquez Knolls, and we photo-document the ash before and after removal. Call (559) 295-5878 if your home stood through the fire and your ducts have never been inspected.
Yes. Original galvanized ducts in Pacific Palisades have spent six or seven decades exposed to salt air, and the inside is often coated in rust scale that keeps flaking off. Cleaning them without a camera inspection first can miss corroded joints and holes that need sealing, not just vacuuming. We inspect, then clean, then seal accessible joints so attic air stops being pulled into your supply runs.
Because most Pacific Palisades homes with three systems are also the homes with the longest duct runs and the most returns. A per-vent price on a three-system hillside house can quietly become $2,500 or more once the tech counts registers. Per-system pricing means you get one number in writing before work starts, and that number does not change at the door. Call (559) 295-5878 and we’ll give you your number.
You should expect before-and-after photos of your actual duct interiors, not stock photos and not a verbal assurance that the job was done. We provide photo proof from the camera inspection before cleaning and the same runs after cleaning, delivered to your phone. That’s part of The Relay Standard, and it’s how we document every Pacific Palisades job.
Yes. Tight attic access does not change the price, but it does change the time and the technique. In Marquez Knolls and other hillside neighborhoods, we regularly send equipment through access openings that are two feet square or smaller. The crew works with containment mats, protective corner guards, and a plan specific to your home’s access points before the first register is opened.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Woodland Hills, serving Pacific Palisades with the Air Duct Cleaning team.