San Francisco, CA
4 star rating
11/14/2008

I used this place to clean our vents.  They offer a flat rate of $169 to clean out up to 10 vents, which is a cheap price.  They also clean out your central furnace/ac unit for a flat rate of $130, including the coils and filter.  They also can professionaly clean out any other vents in your house, such as your dryer vent, or bathroom celing fan vents. ( I recommend that you get BOTH your central unit and ducts done at the same time, because if you only do one then dust will be reintroduced into your system.)

The two guys that showed up were very quick, and thorough.  The technician "omar" was a happy and educated guy who explained the entire process to me before they started, and stated the final price before any thing was started. 

They attach a huge vaccum on one of the vent to pull out the dust backwards, and then they go around and use a special mechanical rotary brush to scrape off all of the dust from the inside of each duct.  The brush is specially designed not to puncture your vent hose, if it is the plastic type, as some of my vents are. 

They also vaccum and clean out each grill of any huge hairballs or what not and the guy even took a brush and scraped/vaccumed each piece of dust from inbetween the grates and worked very quickly and confidently.

after that they use a special "green" envoirnmentally safe chemical which coats the inside of your ducts and prevents mold or bacterial growth.  You may chose to not have this done,  I chose to have it done, since we have terrible mold/spore problems from the previous owners not having it cleaned for 5 years, and they ran it without a filter.

My vents are very high on the celing, I live in a loft and we have three floors with 7 vents.  The cleaned each one no problem, including my furnace, and my dryer vent, PLUS my bathroom celing fans and the whole job took about an hour and a half.  It is now 2008 and the vents/ducts had not been cleaned for 5 years since 2003.

The two technicians were really nice to my two cats (I worry about workers being mean to cats) and they were happy and smiled and told jokes the whole time.  They also worked together diligently, and as a team; they did not argue or fuss at all. 

They did a great job and my house is smelling much fresher and cleaner, and my wife's asthma has gotten a lot better. 

As far as vent/duct cleaning these guys do a great job.  Thanks 911 restoration.