Air Duct Cleaning in Janesville, WI

From the number of furnaces and the count of supply registers and returns, plus the trunk run, and the figure is put in writing before the visit. A plant-era ranch on one furnace can usually be priced on the phone; an older house on Courthouse Hill or in the Old Fourth Ward is inspected first, because how the forced air was retrofitted decides the job. Send the address and the quote comes back written down.

Most single-furnace Janesville homes take two to three hours. A two-story with a long retrofit trunk, two returns or a second furnace takes longer and is quoted that way; adding a dryer vent cleaning to the same visit usually adds less than an hour because the equipment is already set up.

Yes, and it is the most common way Janesville jobs are booked. Both get their own before-and-after photos, and the written price covers both.

Yes. Each unit is priced by its own air handler, and for buildings with several dryers the per-unit dryer vent service comes with documentation for each door, which is what a property manager needs on file.

Almost always worth cleaning. The galvanized sheet metal in a plant-era ranch is usually sound; it is the contents that have aged. Fifty to seventy years of dust, dander and remodel debris come out under negative pressure, and a full-system cleaning costs a fraction of new ductwork. What we look for on inspection is a disconnected joint or a crushed branch, and we show you either before quoting.

The house predates its ductwork. Forced air was added to these 1840s-to-1930s homes long after they were built, so the runs are long, the returns are few and the branches climb through old closets and chimney chases. We inspect the layout first, clean through the existing registers and access points, and nothing we do touches the structure of a historic house.

Homes near the river and on low ground can run damp, and a damp basement makes the dust inside a return duct cling and hold a musty edge. Cleaning removes that material. If the smell comes back quickly, the water is the problem, not the ducts, and we will tell you so rather than sell you a sanitizing treatment you do not need.

The Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code deals with it at SPS 323.14(2). In plain terms the vent must be a smooth, rigid metal duct; the only flexible metal allowed is a short connector at the dryer that is not hidden in a wall or floor; and the run may be no longer than the dryer maker permits after each elbow has been counted against the total. A great many Janesville basements still carry the foil hose that rule retired, and you will see it in the photos when we clean the run.

No. Radon needs a test and, if the level is high, a mitigation system; duct cleaning removes dust, dander and debris and does nothing to the gas. We say this plainly because the two get confused in sales pitches.

The owner, start to finish. Luis quotes it, cleans it and photographs it; there is no crew and no call center between you and the person in your basement.

A retrofit trunk in a Courthouse Hill two-story runs from the basement to the second floor, and the dust we knock loose up there has to travel the whole way back down and out. A machine pulling 7,000 CFM holds that entire run under vacuum at once; a portable unit clears the one register it is parked at and moves the rest of the dust along the trunk.

No. Two things can be added to a cleaning and both have a trigger: sanitizing when a system still smells after it is clean, and a UV-C lamp when the coil shows moisture or growth. Absent the trigger, neither is raised, and the written figure is the whole price.

All of the city, from the historic districts around the courthouse and the Old Fourth Ward to the newest subdivisions on the north-east and south-east edges, and the towns around it: Edgerton, Evansville and Stoughton are on the same routes.