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 HVAC Cleaning Across Pacific Palisades
HVAC cleaning in Pacific Palisades usually runs $450 – $950 for a full system cleaning on a typical single-family home, and larger estates with multiple air handlers cost more because each system is priced and cleaned separately. We schedule Pacific Palisades jobs every weekday and most Saturdays, with crews that know the difference between a cramped 1950s Alphabet Streets crawlspace and a three-zone new build above the bluffs. If your system is blowing dust, wheezing through clogged coils, or cycling more than it should, call Cardinal Air Duct Woodland Hills at (559) 295-5878. Omar Haddad leads our crew, and he will give you a straight answer and a written price before any work starts.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Woodland Hills Is Pacific Palisades’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company
Pacific Palisades homeowners call us because we treat a 1961 Marquez Knolls rancher and a rebuilt Palisades Drive contemporary as two completely different jobs. The older home likely has original galvanized ducts, salt creep from decades of ocean air, and maybe a fine layer of Palisades Fire ash inside the runs. The newer home has code-driven ventilation, multi-zone dampers, and tight attic clearances that punish a sloppy crew. We work both, and we document everything with camera footage before and after.
Our reputation in the Palisades is built on showing up with the right equipment: Nikro HEPA vacuums for negative-pressure extraction, Rotobrush rotary agitation systems, and Abatement Technologies containment when the job demands it. Every technician is background-checked and uniformed, and you know the name of the person walking through your door before they arrive. That is the Relay Standard, and every booking in Pacific Palisades gets it: a live trackable arrival window, before-and-after photos of your own ducts, and a digital invoice you can pay from your phone.
Omar Haddad runs every Pacific Palisades job with one rule: if the work is not right, we come back within 365 days and make it right. No fine print, no proration. That is the 365-Day Done Right Promise, and it applies to every booking without exception.
Styles & brands we work with
AC Duct Cleaning in Pacific Palisades
AC Duct Cleaning in Pacific Palisades means removing the accumulated dust, salt residue, and in many homes, fine Palisades Fire ash from your supply and return ductwork, then sealing and verifying the entire run. A standard AC duct cleaning for a typical Pacific Palisades home runs $450 – $750. Homes with long attic runs, multiple returns, or heavy contamination run higher, and we tell you exactly why before we start. No per-vent games, ever.
What We Clean and How We Verify It
We use negative-pressure extraction. That means the loosened debris gets pulled straight into a HEPA-filtered vacuum, not blown back into your living room. After the cleaning pass, we run a camera through the ducts so you can see the before-and-after with your own eyes. In Pacific Palisades, where ash and salt dust can hide inside long runs behind clean-looking registers, that camera pass is the only honest proof.
Why Salt and Ash Demand HEPA Filtration
Homes along the bluffs and any home that stood through the 2020 Palisades Fire carry particulates that standard shop-vac cleaning cannot capture. Fine ash passes through ordinary filters and settles right back into your ducts. Our Nikro HEPA units and sealed containment approach keep that material out of your air handler and out of your living space. For rebuilt homes with sensitive new systems, we seal registers during agitation so nothing escapes into the house.
Furnace Cleaning in Pacific Palisades
Furnace Cleaning in Pacific Palisades means more than brushing out the blower compartment. It covers the heat exchanger, the blower wheel, the air handler interior, and the return-side ductwork that feeds the furnace. Pricing for a standard furnace cleaning in the Palisades runs $300 – $600 depending on furnace age, accessibility, and how much contamination has built up. Larger homes with two or more furnaces pay per system, not per visit.
What We See in Older Bluff-Side Furnaces
In Marquez Knolls and along the Palisades bluffs, older furnaces often sit in tight closets or crawlspaces with original galvanized ductwork. Salt air accelerates rust, and that rust scale flakes into the blower motor over time. A standard cleaning that agitates those runs without proper containment can push that grit into the motor and shorten its life. We clean with source-removal methods and HEPA containment so the blower stays clean.
Why Per-System Work on Large Estates Is Different
Many Pacific Palisades homes have two or three separate furnace systems, each with its own air handler and duct run. We price each system individually and clean each one completely. The longest attic runs get the same camera verification as the main trunk line. If a crew quotes one flat “whole-house” price and never opens the attic system, you have paid for a partial job.
Trusted Brands We Service in Pacific Palisades
We service and clean systems built by Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Rheem, Goodman, and Daikin, and we keep common replacement filters, coils, and access panels stocked for the brands most common in Pacific Palisades homes. Our equipment fleet includes Rotobrush agitation systems for breaking loose caked-on debris, Nikro HEPA vacuums for true negative-pressure extraction, and Abatement Technologies containment units when a home needs sealed cleaning. We also install and service Guardsman and Aprilaire filtration products, which matter in Pacific Palisades because of the salt, ash, and fine coastal particulates that clog standard filters faster than inland air does.
Common HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Pacific Palisades Homes
- Salt-corroded galvanized ducts: Homes near the bluffs, especially original 1950s and 1960s builds in the Alphabet Streets and Marquez Knolls, have galvanized steel ductwork that rusts from decades of marine air. The rust flakes off during cleaning and can damage blower motors if containment is not done properly.
- Palisades Fire ash hidden inside long runs: Intact homes that survived the 2020 fire often have a fine gray coating of ash inside supply and return ducts, even when the registers look clean. Standard cleaning without HEPA filtration and camera verification leaves that ash behind, and it clogs MERV-rated filters within weeks.
- Underserviced secondary systems on large estates: Homes with three or more HVAC systems often have one system that never gets opened during a “whole-house” cleaning, usually the attic unit with the longest runs. We clean and verify every system, not just the one closest to the garage.
- Mold from coastal humidity and poor ventilation: Low-lying rooms and poorly vented attics in Pacific Palisades trap moisture from the marine layer, which promotes mold growth inside duct runs. Cleaning removes the growth, and we recommend filtration or humidity control if the problem is recurring.
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AfterPricing for HVAC Cleaning in Pacific Palisades, CA
Here is what you can expect to pay for HVAC cleaning in Pacific Palisades, based on the jobs we do in the area every week. A standard AC duct cleaning runs $450 – $750 for the full supply and return run on a single system. Furnace cleaning runs $300 – $600 per furnace, including blower and heat exchanger. Homes with two or three systems pay per system, because each system is a separate job with separate runs. Coil cleaning, including evaporator and condenser coils, runs $150 – $350 per coil depending on access and buildup. Every quote is written and handed to you before any work begins. Call Omar Haddad at (559) 295-5878 for an exact price on your home.
We Also Serve Cities Near Pacific Palisades
If you are in Topanga, Sherman Oaks, Encino, or Tarzana, our crews cover those areas on the same schedule as Pacific Palisades. We want to leave you with the most useful possible picture of what HVAC Cleaning costs and involves, and our local crews are familiar with the housing stock, building ages, and coastal conditions of each nearby community. Call us at (559) 295-5878 and we will tell you exactly what day we are in your area.
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 HVAC Cleaning in Pacific Palisades
Yes. Alphabet Streets homes built in the 1950s and 1960s often still have original galvanized ductwork with riveted seams and internal corrosion from decades of salt air. A standard agitation-only cleaning can break loose rust scale and send it through the blower motor. We use sealed-register, negative-pressure extraction with HEPA filtration on these homes, and we camera-verify the runs afterward. Call (559) 295-5878 and tell us the age of your home; it changes how we approach the job.
Salt air accelerates corrosion in galvanized ducts and furnace cabinets, and that corrosion flakes off as rust particles during cleaning. If the crew does not contain the debris at the source, the blower motor ingests it and wears down faster. We run negative pressure during the entire cleaning pass, so the rust scale goes into the HEPA vacuum, not into the air handler. For bluff-side furnaces, we also recommend a coil and blower inspection while the system is open.
Because each system is a separate enclosed run, and cleaning one does nothing for the other two. Homes with three HVAC systems need all three opened, cleaned, and verified separately. We price each system individually, and the written quote lists each one by zone or location so you know exactly what is included. No system is skipped, including the attic unit with the longest runs. Call (559) 295-5878 for a per-system quote on your home.
You should receive before-and-after camera footage of the inside of your ducts, showing the condition before we started and the clean metal after we finished. We run a camera through every run we clean, on every system, and the video is shared with you before we leave. You also get a written report of what was cleaned, what was found, and what we recommend. If a company cannot show you the inside of your ducts after the job, the work is unverified.
No. Standard duct cleaning without HEPA filtration and sealed containment leaves fine ash inside the runs, and that ash will clog MERV-rated filters within weeks of the cleaning. Surviving homes in Marquez Knolls and surrounding neighborhoods need source-removal cleaning with HEPA-filtered negative pressure, and the runs should be camera-verified afterward. We have done this exact work on homes that stood through the fire, and the difference shows on the camera pass. Call (559) 295-5878 if your home was near the burn zone; we will tell you what we are seeing in your neighborhood.
How Pacific Palisades Conditions Change HVAC Cleaning
Pacific Palisades contains a rare overlap of two post-2020 Palisades Fire conditions. Thousands of homes were rebuilt under strict modern ventilation codes with brand-new multi-zone systems, and simultaneously a patch of older bluff-side homes survived with their original 1950s and 1960s galvanized ducts still carrying salt-laden, ash-dusted air from decades of ocean exposure. A rebuilt home on Palisades Drive might have a three-zone system with tight attic clearances and code-required filtration, while a 1961 hillside contemporary in Marquez Knolls still runs original galvanized supply and return ducts. The cleaning approach is completely different for each, and a crew that treats both as one generic job will miss the fine ash in the old home or damage the dampers in the new one.
We worked one of those Marquez Knolls contemporaries recently. The furnace air handler and all three return registers were still original galvanized steel. Our camera inspection showed rust scale and a fine gray coating of Palisades Fire ash inside the supply and return ducts. We ran negative pressure with HEPA-filtered Rotobrush agitation and sealed each register, then verified the whole run with a second camera pass so the homeowner could see the before-and-after on screen. That is how this work should be done in Pacific Palisades.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Woodland Hills, serving Pacific Palisades and surrounding Los Angeles communities.