Air Duct Cleaning

Air Duct Cleaning

Clean air ducts change how your home feels the moment the system kicks on. Less dust settling on furniture, fewer musty smells drifting through vents, and an HVAC system that doesn’t work twice as hard as it should. Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning is the duct specialist inside the Relay Home Co. family, so every job comes with a live arrival time you can track, before-and-after photos of the work, and a written price handed to you before a single vent is opened. No guessing. No surprises. Just cleaner air, done right.

What’s Included

No two duct systems are identical, so most homes need a combination of services rather than a one-size-fits-all package. Here’s what a typical Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning visit covers, and what each job actually involves.

Supply and Return Duct Cleaning

This is the core of any air duct cleaning job. We run professional rotary brushes through every supply and return line, loosening the dust, debris, and pet hair that’s been accumulating since the house was built or the last cleaning happened. A HEPA-rated Nikro vacuum pulls the loosened material out under negative pressure, so it doesn’t get pushed back into your living space. Most homes in the area have 10 to 18 runs, and a full cleaning typically takes 2 to 4 hours depending on the layout.

Furnace and Air Handler Cleaning

The blower motor, fan blades, and heat exchanger collect more dust than any other part of the system because every cubic foot of air passes through them. We clean the blower assembly, the housing, and the coil area carefully, using compressed air and HEPA extraction rather than water or solvents that could damage electrical components. A clean blower uses less energy and pushes more air through the system on every cycle.

Evaporator Coil Cleaning

When the evaporator coil gets coated in dust and grime, your AC loses efficiency fast, and that’s when you see higher summer electric bills and uneven cooling between rooms. We access the coil, apply a professional-grade cleaning agent, and rinse it thoroughly so the system can transfer heat the way it was designed to. This is one of the highest-value services we offer because the difference shows up immediately in airflow and cooling performance.

Return and Supply Register Cleaning

You see these every day, but most homeowners never think to clean them. We remove every register, wash the grilles with a degreasing solution, wipe down the register boots, and reinstall them. Clean registers mean the air leaving your vents isn’t passing through a layer of household grime on the way out.

Dryer Vent Cleaning

A clogged dryer vent is a fire hazard first and an efficiency problem second. Lint builds up over months and years, restricting airflow and forcing your dryer to run longer cycles while trapping heat in the duct. We use rotary brushes sized for the vent diameter and high-volume air to pull the lint out completely. If you can’t remember the last time this was done, it’s overdue.

Filtration Upgrades

Duct cleaning removes what’s already in the system. Filtration keeps it from coming back. We stock and install Honeywell and Aprilaire filtration products, from basic media filters to whole-home purification systems. If you have allergies, pets, or a household with kids, we’ll recommend the right filtration level for your square footage and explain what each option costs before ordering anything.

Why Homeowners Choose the Relay Home Co. Family

The Relay Home Co. family exists because homeowners got tired of the old way: a vague four-hour window, a tech who may or may not show, and a price that somehow grows after the work starts. Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning operates under The Relay Visibility Guarantee, which is exactly what it sounds like. When you book, you get a live arrival time you can track on your phone, the same way you’d watch a ride-share pull up. Once the work starts, you get photos showing what we found and what we cleaned. The price gets written down and handed to you before anything begins, and it does not change at the door. Every visit is backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work isn’t right, we come back within a full year and make it right. Technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and show up with professional-grade Rotobrush, Nikro, and Abatement Technologies equipment, not a shop vac from the truck. The name Relay is deliberate: a clean hand-off from your phone to our tech to your finished job, with nothing dropped in between.

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