Madison Duct Cleaning, Neighborhood by Neighborhood

You get a written price from the owner before any work starts, from a short phone call or the quote form, with no sales visit. Tell us the number of furnaces or air handlers, roughly how many supply registers and returns you have, and whether you want the dryer vent done in the same trip; that is enough to price a Madison job. Send the address and a phone number and the quote comes back in writing.

Every supply register, every return, the trunk lines and the plenums on the furnace side are cleaned under negative pressure with a 7,000 CFM push-pull system, and you get before-and-after photos of what came out. That scope is the same on the isthmus and on the far west side; what changes is the count of vents, which is what the written price is built on. See what a full-system cleaning covers for the step-by-step.

Most single-system Madison homes take about two to three hours; a two-story with two returns and a long trunk run, or a home with two furnaces, takes longer and is quoted that way. Adding a dryer vent cleaning to the same visit usually adds under an hour, because the equipment is already set up.

Yes, campus-area rentals, condos and small multi-unit buildings in Madison are routine, and turnover between tenants is the most common time we are called: the last tenant’s pet or smoke is in the ducts, not the paint. For buildings with a shared laundry or several stacked dryers, per-unit dryer vent cleaning with documentation is the right service, and it is priced per building rather than per visit.

Yes, most pre-war Madison two-stories were converted from gravity or radiator heat to forced air decades ago, and the sheet-metal trunks from that conversion clean up well. What we watch for is the converted layout itself: long horizontal runs in the basement, returns cut into old floor grilles, and registers that have been painted over more than once. Those are inspected before the price, and nothing is quoted unseen.

Summer humidity off Lake Mendota and Lake Monona makes dust cling and hold odor inside return ducts, especially in homes within a few blocks of the water and in basements that run damp. Cleaning removes the material that holds the smell; duct sanitizing is applied afterwards only when the system genuinely needs it, and we will say so either way.

Wisconsin’s Uniform Dwelling Code, SPS 323.14(2), requires clothes dryers to be vented with rigid, smooth-walled duct, with flexible metal allowed only as a short, unconcealed connector at the dryer, and the maximum run set by the dryer maker’s instructions after counting every elbow. Foil and vinyl accordion hose does not meet that standard and is where lint fires start. When we clean a Madison dryer vent we tell you if the run itself is the problem.

No. Duct cleaning does not reduce radon, and anyone who tells you it does is selling something. Public Health Madison & Dane County reports that nearly half of the Dane County homes tested in the past three years showed elevated radon; the fix is a test and, if needed, a mitigation system, not a duct service. Duct cleaning addresses dust, dander, construction debris and the material that holds odor, which is a separate problem worth solving on its own.

The owner, Luis Perez, shows up and does the work himself; there is no crew rotation and no call center between you and the person holding the equipment. The person who quoted the job is the person cleaning your returns, which is why the price does not change in the driveway. Read how Pro Air came to Madison.

A 7,000 CFM push-pull system puts the whole duct run under negative pressure so loosened material is drawn out of the house instead of being stirred back into the rooms. Portable vacuums clean the few feet a brush can reach and leave the trunk lines untouched, which is why a cheap cleaning often makes a home dustier for a week. The photos you get at the end show exactly what came out.

A straight company tells you when you do not need something, and puts the price in writing before the truck is unloaded. We quote UV-C coil lights and sanitizing only when the system shows a reason for them, we never sell a mold treatment from a photo of ordinary dust, and we would rather lose an add-on than a referral on the isthmus.

Yes, every Madison neighborhood from the Near East Side and Marquette across the isthmus to Hilldale, Nakoma and the far west side, plus Maple Bluff and Shorewood Hills, is served from our Madison base. The full list of towns we cover, in Dane County and beyond, is on the locations page, and if your street is not named, call and ask.