Who We Are

You call or book online, and we give you a two-hour arrival window. We call when we're on the way. The first thing the lead tech does at your house is look at the system before quoting anything: how many supply runs, where the returns are, whether the attic is accessible, whether it's hard pipe or flex. Then you hear the number, and you decide. Nothing gets touched until you say go. What moves that number on a duct cleaning is mostly run count and access. A single-story ranch with eight supplies and one big hallway return is straightforward. Two zones, a second return in a bedroom hall, a tight attic you crawl on your belly through, or boots buried under blown-in insulation all add time. Heavy ash or rodent contamination changes the job too, since that's remediation, not a routine cleaning.

Los Gatos homes split into two groups. The 1950s-1970s ranch tracts have sheet metal trunk-and-branch systems in vented attics, and those attics hit 130-150F in summer, so supply ducts gain heat, systems run longer, and whatever is in the duct gets cycled harder. Mid-80s onward construction switched to flex duct, which sags between supports, collects dust in the low spots, and tears or disconnects at boot and plenum collars. We find both constantly. Dry season gives us six months of fine silt and pollen with no rain to knock it down. Wet season brings crawlspace moisture and condensation on cold supply runs in unconditioned space. Wildfire smoke seasons since 2017-2020 loaded a lot of South Bay systems with fine ash that settled in returns and blower housings, which is still the most common reason people here call us.

On site we run a truck-mounted vacuum, pull negative pressure on the trunk, seal off every register with film, then work each run with rotary brushes and air whips back toward the vacuum. We clean the return drops, the plenum, and the blower housing, since that's where the loaded material actually sits. We work on Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, and American Standard equipment. If we open your system and the ducts are clean, we say so and you pay nothing for a cleaning you don't need. That happens more than you'd think, usually in houses that have kept up on filter replacement. Sometimes the real problem is leakage at the collars or sagging flex, and duct sealing is the fix that matters. Sometimes the airflow complaint is a dirty evaporator, and coil cleaning solves it. We'd rather tell you that on the first visit than sell you the wrong job.