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 San Gabriel
Air duct cleaning in San Gabriel typically costs between $350 and $650 for a full system, and most jobs are finished in a half day without anyone needing to leave home. If you live in the Mission District, near San Gabriel High School, or anywhere off Las Tunas Drive, you’re dealing with ductwork that’s been collecting dust through more dry summers than most of us care to count. Our crews know these houses because we’ve opened hundreds of registers here, from the 1920s bungalows north of Valley Boulevard to the 1960s ranchers south of Hermosa Drive. Call (626) 469-5477 and we’ll give you a written price before anyone opens a single vent.
Why Hollis Air Duct Pasadena Is San Gabriel’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
San Gabriel homeowners call us because we show up when we said we would, with a price already written down. No door-knock surprises. No “while we’re here, we also found…” upsells. We’re part of the Garrison Partners family, which has been operating since 2004, and every job runs on The Garrison Standard: arrive inside the quoted window, price it in writing before work starts, do the job by the book, and leave the site cleaner than we found it. That’s the whole arrangement.
Roy Castellanos leads the team, and he sets the expectations for how every technician walks into a San Gabriel home: background-checked, uniformed, and accountable to the name on the van. When a San Gabriel customer asks what the Air Duct Cleaning crew will actually do, we can hand them a written scope before the equipment comes off the truck. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers every job we do in San Gabriel. If something fails within the year, we come back and fix it at no charge. That includes a free second visit if the repair didn’t hold.
Styles & brands we work with
Residential Air Duct Cleaning in San Gabriel
Residential Air Duct Cleaning in San Gabriel means going after what’s actually inside your ducts, not just waving a vacuum at a register. Homes here run the range from 1920s California bungalows with original gravity-style floor vents to 1980s tract houses with flexible branch lines. What they share is a long season of recirculated air: our dry summers keep AC running from May through October, and the Santa Ana winds push fine grit through window sashes and into the return air. A typical single-family home in San Gabriel runs $350 to $650 for a full clean, depending on the number of registers and whether the ducts are original metal or newer flex.
What We Find in Crawl Spaces
In San Gabriel’s historic Mission District and pre-1970 neighborhoods, raised foundations mean supply ducts live in crawl spaces that have been inhaling dust for 60 or 80 years. Original metal runs get crushed by someone crawling under the house to run a cable, or a boot separates at the floor, and suddenly your system is pulling crawl-space air into the bedroom. That’s not a cleaning problem alone; it’s a repair we flag with camera footage after the cleaning is done.
Why Sealing Matters Here
Older San Gabriel homes often have undersized, leaky ducts. Cleaning them removes the accumulated debris, but if we leave gaps at the connections, the dust comes right back from the same crawl space. We show every customer photos of what we find, then write a price for any sealing work before we do it. No one gets surprised by an invoice.
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in San Gabriel
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in San Gabriel serves the offices, restaurants, and retail spaces along Valley Boulevard, Las Tunas, and Mission Road. These buildings often run rooftop units with long supply runs, and the dry climate means whatever gets pulled in tends to stay. A restaurant kitchen pulls grease vapor into its ducts; a medical office pulls in the same valley grit as everyone else but has occupants who notice it more. Commercial jobs in San Gabriel typically start around $800 and scale with the square footage, number of rooftop units, and access difficulty.
Kitchen and Food-Service Systems
Restaurant exhaust and make-up air systems in San Gabriel need more than a brush-through. Grease-laden dust sticks to duct walls, reduces airflow, and puts extra strain on fans. We schedule commercial work around your hours, including early mornings before service starts.
Retail and Office Buildings
Office towers and strip centers along Valley Boulevard share the same recirculating dust problem that houses do, but with far more feet tracking in debris. We work property managers to schedule duct cleaning between tenant turnovers or overnight when the building is empty. Written scope, flat price, no escalation.
Trusted Brands We Service in San Gabriel
We run professional-grade equipment in San Gabriel, not hardware-store gear. Our crews use Rotobrush rotary brush systems and Nikro negative-air machines, which means the debris we loosen gets pulled out of the house instead of blown around the living room. For customers who want better air after the cleaning, we stock and install filtration products from Honeywell and Aprilaire. Gary, who runs most of our San Gabriel jobs, keeps the truck stocked with the common sizes and fittings for the brands we service, so a second trip to the supplier doesn’t delay your job.
See the difference
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AfterCommon Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in San Gabriel Homes
- Crushed or disconnected crawl-space runs. Original metal supply ducts under raised foundations get stepped on or knocked apart during plumbing and electrical work. A cleaning that doesn’t catch this just pulls dirt from under the house into your rooms, so we run a camera in every crawl-space job.
- Grit-embedded floor registers. San Gabriel Valley homes that replaced carpet with hardwood or tile often left the old floor registers behind. The fins hold decades of pet hair and fine dust that surface-brush cleaning won’t touch, so we lift and agitate these by hand.
- Undersized original ductwork. A 1950s house with one return grille in the hallway struggles to move the air an AC system needs. Cleaning improves what’s there, but we’ll tell you honestly when the real issue is duct design, not dirt.
- Leaky boots and seams. Sheet-metal ducts from the pre-1970 era were taped with materials that dry out and fall off. After cleaning, we point out exactly where air is leaking and quote sealing with mastic, which actually holds.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in San Gabriel, CA
A full residential air duct cleaning in San Gabriel runs $350 to $650 for a single-family home. Commercial work starts at $800 and moves up based on square footage, unit count, and the condition of the runs. What changes the residential number: how many supply and return registers you have, whether the ducts are original metal or newer flex, and whether any sealing or repair is needed. Every job gets a written price before any work begins, and that number doesn’t change when the technician is standing in your living room. If you want the exact figure for your house, call (626) 469-5477. The estimate is free, and you get a number you can hold us to.
We Also Serve Cities Near San Gabriel
Our San Gabriel crews regularly cross the city line into Temple City, Alhambra, Rosemead, and Arcadia. If you’re just outside San Gabriel and need the same written-price, camera-verified duct cleaning, call us. We schedule these neighborhoods every week, and the same Roy Castellanos standard applies wherever the truck parks.
Serving San Gabriel, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the San Gabriel 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 San Gabriel
Because the ducts sit in a crawl space that’s been collecting dust, pest debris, and construction grit for as long as the house has stood. Basic cleaning removes surface dust inside the ducts; it doesn’t find crushed runs, disconnected boots, or leaky seams. In San Gabriel’s Mission District and pre-1970 neighborhoods, we run a camera through every crawl-space job before cleaning begins, so you aren’t paying to clean ducts that are still pulling dirt from under the floor. If sealing or repair is needed, we show you the footage and quote it in writing. Call (626) 469-5477 to schedule an inspection and quote.
You usually can’t just by looking at your registers, but the signs are consistent: certain rooms stay hot in summer, airflow at a vent feels weak, or you hear a rattling when the system kicks on. Dust that returns within weeks of a cleaning is another strong clue, because it means the ducts are pulling from somewhere besides the return grille. In San Gabriel homes with raised foundations, the only reliable way to know is a camera inspection of the crawl-space runs. We include that on every job where the ducts run under the house, and we show you the footage while we’re still there.
Most do, and it’s the difference between a clean that lasts and one that doesn’t. Original metal ducts from the 1920s through the 1960s were sealed with tape and compounds that harden and fail. After we clean those ducts, we check every boot, seam, and connection for air loss. If we find gaps, we quote sealing with mastic, a paste that hardens into a permanent seal. We never start sealing without a written price in your hand, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise covers the sealing work just like the cleaning. Call (626) 469-5477 and we’ll walk you through what your ducts actually need, not what’s easiest for us.
NADCA is the National Air Duct Cleaners Association, and its standard requires source removal: mechanically loosening debris from duct walls and pulling it out with negative pressure and HEPA filtration, rather than just brushing it toward the registers. Yes, we follow the NADCA standard on every job in San Gabriel, including the crawl-space systems in older homes. That means agitation with a rotary brush or air whip, containment of the debris, and final inspection with camera or photos so you can see the result. If a company can’t tell you what standard they’re following, that’s a red flag. We’ll name it, follow it, and show you the proof.
Because many older San Gabriel homes still have their original floor registers, even after carpet was torn out and replaced with tile or hardwood. The fins of those registers have spent decades catching pet hair, dust, and fine Santa Ana grit, and a standard surface brushing won’t get it out. We lift the registers, clean them by hand, and use agitation tools on the boots below. It’s a detail a lot of crews skip to save time, but in this part of the Valley it’s the difference between a house that stays clean and one that’s dusty again in a month.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Pasadena, serving San Gabriel and the surrounding San Gabriel Valley.