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.
Trusted Air Duct Cleaning for Long Beach Homeowners
Air duct cleaning in Long Beach runs between $390 and $790 for a typical single-family home, depending on the number of systems and how much buildup has accumulated over the years. The cleaning itself takes half a day at most, and you’ll notice the difference in how the air feels and how much dust settles on your furniture within the first week. Hollis Air Duct Long Beach has been doing this work since 2004 under The Garrison Standard: a written price before we start, background-checked and uniformed technicians on the job, and a 365-Day Done Right Promise on every visit. Call (562) 548-7365 for a straight answer and a free estimate. Roy Castellanos leads our Long Beach crew, and he has one rule that never bends: if the job isn’t done right, we come back at no charge.
Key Takeaways
- Whole-home air duct cleaning in Long Beach typically costs $390 – $790, written down before we start and guaranteed not to move at the door.
- Every job is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it fails within a year, we return and fix it free.
- We use negative-air and rotary brush equipment from Rotobrush and Nikro, not hardware-store tools or glorified vacuums.
- Phones are answered by a live person 24/7. No voicemail loops, no callback queues.
Styles & brands we work with
Air Duct Cleaning Services
Air Duct Cleaning Services covers the full interior of your forced-air system: supply ducts, return ducts, registers, the plenum, and the air handler cabinet. Long Beach homes near the coast deal with a specific problem: marine air carries fine salt particles and moisture that settle inside ducts and bond with dust into a sticky film that regular filter changes never touch. Hollis Air Duct Long Beach runs a professional-grade negative-air setup with a Nikro machine to pull debris out of the system, paired with a Rotobrush rotary brush system to agitate and remove what’s stuck to the duct walls. A typical whole-home cleaning in Long Beach runs $390 to $790 depending on home size and system condition. Every price is written down before we touch a single vent.
Supply and Return Ductwork
Supply ducts push conditioned air into your rooms; return ducts pull it back to the furnace or air handler. Both sides collect debris, but return ducts in Long Beach homes often run dirtier because they draw unfiltered air from hallways and living spaces. We clean both sides fully, not just the visible registers.
Registers, Grilles, and Plenum
The register covers you see on the wall or floor are only part of the story. Behind them sits the plenum, the large metal box where ducts connect to the main system. We remove each register, wash it, and clean the plenum interior so air isn’t passing over a layer of old dust the moment it leaves the system.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
HVAC Duct Cleaning
HVAC Duct Cleaning is the same service applied to the complete heating and cooling system, not just the visible duct runs. It covers everything attached to the system: supply and return plenums, the blower compartment, the evaporator coil housing, and all connected branch lines. For a Long Beach homeowner, the deciding factor is usually one of three things: visible dust blowing from registers when the system kicks on, rising allergy symptoms that improve away from home, or a system that hasn’t been opened since it was installed. Hollis Air Duct Long Beach charges the same flat range for HVAC duct cleaning: $390 to $790 for a typical single-system home. The written price includes the full system, not just the ducts we can reach from the attic hatch.
Blower Compartment and Coil
The blower compartment is where dust gets pulled before it’s pushed through the house. If the blower wheel is caked, it moves less air and uses more electricity. We clean the accessible blower surfaces and the coil housing as part of standard HVAC duct cleaning, not as an add-on surprise.
System-Wide Airflow Check
Once the system is clean, our technicians check airflow at each register to confirm the system is moving air the way it should. In Long Beach’s older neighborhoods, like Belmont Shore and Naples, it’s common to find collapsed flex ducts or disconnected branch lines during this check. We tell you what we find, with a written price for any recommended repair before we do it.
Vent Cleaning
Vent Cleaning focuses on the most visible part of your air system: the floor, wall, and ceiling registers, along with the first few feet of ductwork behind them. In Long Beach, the biggest variable is location. Homes east of the 710 in neighborhoods like Bixby Knolls and California Heights sit on soil that kicks up fine dust, while homes closer to the water in Alamitos Beach and Bluff Park collect salt film and sand particles. Hollis Air Duct Long Beach includes vent cleaning as part of every Full System Cleaning, but we also offer it as a targeted service when the registers are the only visible problem. Standalone vent cleaning typically falls in the $190 to $340 range depending on register count and accessibility. The price is written before we begin.
Register Removal and Deep Washing
Each register comes off, gets washed, and goes back clean. It’s simple work, but it’s the difference between a system that looks clean and one that actually is. We also inspect the register boots, the metal boxes the registers sit in, for gaps that leak conditioned air into wall cavities.
Sand, Salt, and Coastal Debris
Coastal Long Beach air carries things inland homes never see. Salt film clings to register vanes and accelerates corrosion on older metal work. Homes within a mile of the water usually need vent cleaning more often, sometimes annually, because the buildup happens faster than filter changes can handle.
Air Duct Repair
Air Duct Repair fixes what cleaning reveals: separated duct runs, crushed flex lines, holes in the trunk line, and gaps at connections that leak conditioned air into attics and crawlspaces. In Long Beach, the two big culprits are age and rodents. Many homes in Lakewood Village and Los Altos were built in the 1950s and 1960s, and duct tape, the literal kind, dries out and fails over decades in attic heat. Rats and mice in crawlspaces also chew through flex duct to get from one end of a house to the other. Hollis Air Duct Long Beach repairs ductwork with aluminum tape and mastic sealant, the same materials commercial crews use, and the work is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise. Repair pricing starts at $150 and runs up from there depending on what we find; the free inspection tells you exactly what you’re dealing with.
Leak Sealing with Mastic
Mastic is a thick, brush-on sealant that hardens into a permanent, flexible seal. Unlike tape, it does not dry out and peel in attic heat. We use it on all ductwork connections, not just the ones that are visibly failing, because a joint that leaks is a joint that wastes money whether you can see it or not.
Flex Duct Replacement
When a flex duct run is crushed, chewed through, or torn, the right fix is replacement, not patching. We replace the damaged run with new insulated flex, sized to match the system, and reconnect it properly at both ends. The new run gets the same mastic treatment before we leave.
Ductwork Cleaning
Ductwork Cleaning is the heavy-lifting version of the service: the full interior surface of every accessible duct run, cleaned mechanically until the metal or flex interior is actually clean, not just loosened. The difference matters. Some companies hook a vacuum to one register and call it done. Hollis Air Duct Long Beach runs a Nikro negative-air machine to create continuous suction on the system while a Rotobrush rotary brush travels each duct run from the inside. That combination, negative pressure plus mechanical agitation, is the method the National Air Duct Cleaners Association describes as the industry standard. In Long Beach’s older homes, particularly those in Wrigley and Cambodia Town with original ductwork, this level of cleaning removes decades of accumulated debris that a simple blow-and-go method leaves behind. Whole-home ductwork cleaning runs the same $390 to $790 range based on system size and condition.
Rotary Brush Cleaning
The Rotobrush system sends a spinning brush down each duct run, scrubbing the interior walls while the negative-air machine pulls the dislodged debris out of the house. It’s the difference between sweeping a floor and wiping it down. The brush reaches corners and seams where flat deposits build up.
Negative-Air Containment
The Nikro negative-air machine keeps your home clean during the job. It creates vacuum pressure inside the duct system so dust and debris move out through the machine’s filtration, not into your living room. We also run HEPA filtration on the exhaust side so we’re not blowing the problem back into your yard or the neighbor’s.
Air Duct Inspection
Air Duct Inspection is a camera-and-eyes examination of the inside of your duct system, done to answer one question: what is actually in there? We inspect ducts in Long Beach homes for dust loading, mold, pest activity, water damage, disconnected runs, and collapsed flex. The inspection is included free with any cleaning quote. We run a small camera into accessible ducts, check the plenum and blower compartment, and walk you through what we find, register by register if needed. The goal is a written report you can understand, not a sales pitch. Inspection-only visits for homeowners who want to know their system’s condition before committing to anything run $129, and that amount is credited toward cleaning if you book within 30 days.
Camera Inspection of Duct Interiors
The camera shows us what the eye can’t reach: separation at joints, dust caked on flat surfaces, moisture stains that suggest a leak. We look at the duct interior, the boots at each register, and the connections at the plenum. If we find something that needs repair, you’ll see it on the screen before we quote it.
Post-Cleaning Verification
After every cleaning, we run the camera again on representative ducts to confirm the work. This is the proof step. You are not taking our word that the system is clean; you are looking at the before-and-after images yourself. It’s part of The Garrison Standard, and it’s in writing on every job ticket.
Residential Air Duct Cleaning
Residential Duct Cleaning is our core service for Long Beach homes: single-family houses, townhomes, condos with their own systems, and everything in between. The typical Long Beach residential job takes between two and four hours, and the price depends on the size of the system and how long it’s been since the last cleaning. A 1,000-square-foot condo in downtown Long Beach with one system usually lands at the lower end of our $390 to $790 range. A 2,500-square-foot two-story home in El Dorado Park with dual systems and original ductwork runs higher. The price is written before we start, and it covers the full system: supply and return ducts, register cleaning, plenum, blower compartment, and post-cleaning photo verification.
Single-System Homes and Condos
Smaller homes and condos often share a wall with neighboring units, which means the duct layout is more compact and access can be tighter. We see a lot of these in Naples, Belmont Heights, and along Ocean Boulevard. The cleaning is the same standard; the access is just more careful.
Multi-System Larger Properties
Larger homes with two or three systems need each system cleaned separately, and the price reflects that. We don’t quote per vent. We quote per system, written down, so you know the entire number before we touch a register. Homes in Bixby Knolls and Los Cerritos with upstairs and downstairs units are common examples.
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning
Commercial Duct Cleaning handles the larger, often code-driven needs of Long Beach businesses: offices, restaurants, medical suites, retail spaces, and light industrial buildings. Commercial systems run longer hours, move more air, and carry a different set of problems: kitchen grease vapor in restaurant ducting, patient-room air quality requirements in medical offices, and the simple fact that commercial duct runs are longer and harder to access. Hollis Air Duct Long Beach prices commercial jobs by system size, run length, and access difficulty. Small office suites typically start around $600; larger commercial spaces are quoted after an on-site inspection, always in writing before work begins. We use the same Rotobrush and Nikro equipment on commercial jobs, scaled to the larger duct diameters and longer runs.
Restaurant and Food-Service Ductwork
Restaurants in Long Beach face a specific problem: grease-laden air moving through HVAC ducts. Over time that grease films the duct interior and traps flour dust, lint, and everything else. We clean commercial kitchen duct systems with the same negative-air and rotary brush method, and we coordinate with your operating hours so the job doesn’t shut you down.
Office, Retail, and Medical Suites
Offices and medical suites need clean air for a different reason: people are in the building all day, and the system runs constantly. We schedule after-hours and weekend work for commercial clients when needed. The price is written, the crew is uniformed and background-checked, and the work is covered by the same 365-Day Done Right Promise.
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AfterHow Much Does Air Duct Cleaning Cost in Long Beach?
A typical whole-home air duct cleaning in Long Beach runs $390 to $790, depending on the number of systems, the size of the home, and the condition of the ductwork. A single-system condo or smaller home usually lands between $390 and $490. A two-story home with one system and moderate buildup typically runs $490 to $590. A larger home with dual systems, original ductwork, or heavy debris loading can reach $690 to $790. Standalone vent cleaning runs $190 to $340. Duct repairs start at $150 and go up based on what we find.
What affects the price: the number of systems, the linear feet of ductwork, the access difficulty (crawlspace vs. attic vs. slab), and how much buildup has accumulated. Older Long Beach homes with original 1950s ductwork tend to run higher because the ducts are tighter and the buildup is decades deep.
How to avoid overpaying: get a written price before work starts. That’s the whole game. The bait-and-switch model in this industry works by quoting a low number on the phone and inflating it once the technician is in the house. Our price is written down before we begin, and it does not move. The free estimate includes the inspection, the written price, and a walkthrough of what we found. Call (562) 548-7365 for a quote that means something.
Brands We Service
We service all major HVAC brands in Long Beach, and we’ve worked extensively with equipment from Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Guardsman. Honeywell media cabinets and electronic air cleaners are common in Long Beach homes, and the filters need to be matched correctly to the system. Aprilaire whole-home filtration units sit on the return side, and if they’re not opened and serviced during a cleaning, the system’s airflow suffers. We open the filter cabinet, check the media condition, and replace what’s needed as part of the job, not as a separate trip.
We also service and clean duct systems connected to Guardsman filtration products, which appear in many newer Long Beach builds and renovations. Whether your system has a Guardsman media filter, a Honeywell cabinet, an Aprilaire unit, or any other make, we can service it. The duct cleaning is the same standard regardless of what your filter brand is.
Signs You Need a Pro Right Now
- Dust accumulates within days of cleaning. If you’re dusting furniture on Saturday and it’s coated again by Wednesday, your ducts are likely the source. Air moving through dirty ductwork spreads fine particulate across every surface in the room, and no amount of surface cleaning keeps up with it.
- Allergy symptoms spike indoors. If your eyes water and your sinuses clog when you’re home but improve at work or outside, the air inside your Long Beach home is carrying something your body doesn’t like. Duct buildup, pet dander, and dust mites love warm, dark duct interiors.
- You see dust or debris blowing from registers. When the system kicks on and you can see particles moving in the air near a register, that’s visible proof of duct buildup. It’s not normal, and it means the duct interior has more debris than the filter can catch.
- Rooms are consistently uneven in temperature. A room that stays hot in summer and cold in winter often has a duct problem behind it: a disconnected run, a crushed flex line, or a damper that’s stuck. The system is working harder than it should, and part of that air is going somewhere other than the room you’re trying to condition.
- The system hasn’t been opened in years. If you can’t remember the last time the ducts were cleaned, or you bought the house and the previous owner didn’t know either, the system is due. Long Beach’s marine air accelerates buildup, and older systems accumulate faster than newer ones.
Our Process, Step by Step
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Inspection and written price. We arrive inside the quoted window, walk the system with you, and inspect the ductwork. Then we write down the price. It does not change once the work begins. If we find something during the job that needs attention beyond the written scope, we stop, show you, and get a written agreement before continuing.
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System setup and containment. We seal off the work area, connect the Nikro negative-air machine to the duct system, and establish vacuum. This creates negative pressure so dust and debris move through the machine’s filtration, not into your home. Your floors, furniture, and air stay clean while we work.
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Mechanical cleaning of all accessible ducts. The Rotobrush rotary brush travels each duct run, scrubbing the interior walls while the negative-air machine pulls dislodged debris out of the system. We clean supply and return ducts, the plenum, the blower compartment, register boots, and register covers.
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Repairs, if needed. If the cleaning or inspection reveals separated runs, crushed flex, or leaking joints, we show you what we found and quote the repair in writing. No repair happens without your written approval. If you decline, the cleaning price stands as quoted and we note the findings on the ticket.
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Verification and cleanup. We run the camera on representative ducts to show before-and-after photos, clean the work area, and replace every register cover. You get a written summary of what was done, what was found, and what the 365-Day Done Right Promise covers. Then we leave, and the site is left clean.
Our Service Area Near Long Beach
Hollis Air Duct Long Beach serves the full Long Beach area and the surrounding communities. We’re in San Pedro, Carson, Lakewood, Bellflower, and Downey regularly. We also travel to Westminster, Buena Park, Cypress, and Norwalk for scheduled jobs. Our technicians run routes across the greater Long Beach area Monday through Saturday, and our phone line is answered live 24/7. If you’re in a neighboring community, give us a call at (562) 548-7365 and we’ll tell you when we can get to you. We also maintain a full Air Duct Cleaning in Huntington Beach service area and a dedicated Air Duct Cleaning in Garden Grove page. If you’re closer to home and want to learn more about our standard service, see our main home page.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Air Duct Cleaning in Long Beach
Air duct cleaning is the mechanical removal of dust, debris, pet dander, and accumulated buildup from the interior of your home’s forced-air duct system, including supply and return ducts, registers, the plenum, and the blower compartment. We use a negative-air machine to pull debris out and a rotary brush system to scrub the duct walls. The result is a system that moves air freely and doesn’t redistribute old dust through the house every time it runs.
A typical single-system home in Long Beach takes between two and four hours, start to finish. Larger homes with multiple systems can take half a day or a full day depending on access and buildup. We give you a time window when you book, and we arrive inside it.
Whole-home air duct cleaning typically runs $390 to $790 depending on system size, number of systems, and how much buildup has accumulated. Standalone vent cleaning runs $190 to $340. The price is written down before we start, and it does not change at the door. Call (562) 548-7365 for a free estimate with exact numbers for your home.
Yes. We service and clean duct systems connected to Honeywell, Aprilaire, Guardsman, and every other major brand of HVAC and filtration equipment. We open the filter cabinet, check the media condition, and clean around it as part of the standard job.
We answer the phone 24/7 with a live person, so if you have a duct-related emergency in Long Beach, you’ll talk to a real human immediately. For true emergencies, a collapsed duct, a rodent problem in the ductwork, or a post-water-damage situation, we’ll schedule you as quickly as possible and get a written quote in your hands before any work starts.
Every job carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If the work fails within a year, we come back and make it right at no charge, including a free second visit. That’s not a verbal promise; it’s on the written job ticket. If a repair fails, the same guarantee applies.
Clear a path to the furnace or air handler and to the main return register. Move furniture that blocks floor registers if it’s easy to do, but don’t move anything heavy; we can work around it. Make sure we have access to the attic hatch or crawlspace entry if the ducts are there. Otherwise, just be home to let us in, and we handle the rest.
Schedule Your Air Duct Cleaning Service in Long Beach Today
Call (562) 548-7365 for a free estimate on air duct cleaning in Long Beach. You’ll get a live person, a straight answer, and a written price before any work begins. Every job is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. Roy Castellanos and the Hollis Air Duct Long Beach crew will show up uniformed, inside the window we quoted, and leave your system clean and your house cleaner than we found it.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Long Beach, serving Long Beach since 2004.