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 Fort Worth Homeowners
Air duct cleaning in Fort Worth runs $390 – $690 for most single-family homes, depending on square footage and how long it’s been since the last cleaning. We typically finish a standard system in 3 – 5 hours, and you’ll get a written price before a single duct is touched. If your vents are blowing dust, your allergies spike every time the AC kicks on, or you can’t remember the last time the ducts were cleaned, it’s probably time. Call Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth at (817) 730-6759 and our team, led by Omar Haddad, will walk you through exactly what’s going on and what it costs.
Fort Worth’s clay-heavy soil and hard water aren’t just tough on foundations. They kick up fine dust that settles into ductwork, mixes with dryer lint and pet hair, and coats the inside of your system. Add Texas-sized pollen seasons and the constant AC use from late spring through early fall, and you’ve got a recipe for ductwork that works against you. We’re part of the Relay Home Co. family, founded in 2005, which means every booking comes with The Relay Standard: a live trackable arrival time, before-and-after photos of your actual ducts, and a digital invoice payable by link. No four-hour windows. No door price changes. No mystery.
Here’s what matters: every Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth job is backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the work isn’t right within a full year, we return and correct it at no charge. That’s not a sales line. It’s the standing offer on every booking. And a real, live person answers our phone 24/7. Not a voicemail loop. A person.
Air Duct Cleaning Services
Air Duct Cleaning Services means the full cleaning of your supply and return ductwork, register covers, and the interior of your air handler. You need it when visible dust accumulates around vents, when rooms in your Fort Worth home stay stubbornly dusty despite regular cleaning, or when anyone in the house deals with allergies or asthma that flare up indoors. Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth runs professional-grade Rotobrush rotary brush systems paired with Nikro HEPA-rated vacuum extraction. That combination means debris gets loosened by the brush and pulled straight into the vacuum under negative pressure – it doesn’t blow back into your living room. Most standard air duct cleanings run $390 – $690, with the written price confirmed before any work starts.
Whole-House System Cleaning
Every vent, every return, every branch line gets the same attention. We clean the main trunk lines and individual branch runs leading to each room in your Fort Worth home. No skipping the hard-to-reach runs under slab foundations, which are common in older neighborhoods like Ridglea and Wedgwood.
Post-Renovation Cleanout
Drywall dust, sawdust, and construction debris settle into ductwork fast and recirculate for months after the contractor leaves. We pull that out before it becomes part of your indoor air. If you’ve recently remodeled in Arlington Heights or Mistletoe Heights, this is the cleanup that finishes the job.
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.
Styles & brands we work with
HVAC Duct Cleaning
HVAC Duct Cleaning is the full-system cleaning of everything air passes through between your heating and cooling equipment and the rooms you live in. You need it when your furnace blower spreads visible dust onto furniture, when air pressure feels weak coming out of certain vents, or when the system runs constantly but the house never feels evenly comfortable. Our technicians at Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth pull the registers, clean them properly, brush the interior duct surfaces, and run a Nikro HEPA vacuum to extract everything that was loosened. The air handler cabinet, blower housing, and evaporator coil get cleaned too. Most HVAC duct cleanings in Fort Worth run $390 – $690, with your final written price locked in before we begin.
Supply and Return Cleaning
Both directions of airflow get the full treatment. Supply ducts deliver conditioned air to your rooms; return ducts pull air back to the system. If only one side gets cleaned, the other side keeps feeding dust right back into the loop.
Blower and Coil Decontamination
The part of your system that touches air every second it runs is the blower and coil. We get those surfaces clean too, because a clean duct connected to a dirty coil is only half a job. That’s where real efficiency losses happen, and Fort Worth summers don’t forgive inefficiency.
Vent Cleaning
Vent Cleaning is the focused cleanup of register covers, vent openings, and the visible portions of your ductwork where dust, cooking grease, and pet hair collect. You need it when you can see gray dust building up on the slats of your floor or ceiling vents, when certain rooms smell musty when air kicks on, or when you’ve just moved into a home and don’t know its duct history. Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth removes each register cover, cleans it with professional-grade equipment, and vacuums the accessible vent cavity inside the wall or floor. We also replace torn or rusted covers when needed. Vent cleaning for a standard Fort Worth home runs $150 – $350 on its own, and it’s included in any full duct cleaning.
Register Cover Restoration
We take every cover off, clean it, and check for corrosion or seized adjustment levers. Old homes in Fairmount and Ryan Place often have original cast-iron registers that need hand cleaning rather than machine cleaning. We handle both.
Floor Vent Deep Clean
Fort Worth’s slab foundations put vents in the floor, and floor vents collect everything that gets tracked across carpet and tile. We clean the cavity below the register, not just the visible slats. That’s where dust bunnies, pet hair, and child-toy casualties hide.
Air Duct Repair
Air Duct Repair covers fixing leaks, tears, and disconnected sections in your ductwork so conditioned air actually reaches the rooms you paid to heat or cool. You need it when some rooms in your Fort Worth house never feel comfortable no matter what the thermostat says, when your energy bills seem higher than they should be, or when a visual check shows sagging, split, or taped-together duct sections in the attic. Our team at Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth seals leaks with mastic and foil tape rated for HVAC use, replaces damaged flex duct runs, and reconnects sections that have pulled apart. Every repair comes with a written guarantee, and if a repair fails within 365 days, we return and fix it free. Duct repair pricing starts around $180 for simple sealing and runs higher depending on the extent of damage.
Leak Sealing
Even a small gap between a duct collar and a boot can lose 15 – 20% of your conditioned air into the attic or wall cavity. We find those gaps and seal them properly, not with hardware-store tape that peels off in one Fort Worth summer. Proper mastic and foil tape stay put.
Flex Duct Replacement
Fort Worth attics regularly hit 130°F in July. Flex duct gets brittle, kinks, and eventually splits. We replace damaged runs with correctly sized, properly supported ductwork, and we photograph the before and after so you can see exactly what was fixed.
Ductwork Cleaning
Ductwork Cleaning is the structural cleaning of the actual metal or flex duct runs inside your walls, attic, and under your floors. You need it when ducts haven’t been cleaned in 5+ years, when the previous owners had pets (Fort Worth has plenty of pet hair in ductwork), or when you’ve had water intrusion or pest issues that left residue inside the system. Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth uses a Rotobrush rotary brush system to agitate caked-on debris from duct walls, then pulls it out through a Nikro HEPA-filtered vacuum under negative pressure – meaning the loosened debris goes straight into the vacuum, not back into your living room. For Fort Worth homes with moderate buildup, full ductwork cleaning runs $390 – $690. Heavy buildup or pest remediation may push higher, but you’ll know the number before we start.
Main Trunk Line Cleaning
The big rectangular or round ducts that feed all the branches are where most debris first accumulates. We open access points at key locations and clean the full trunk run, both supply and return sides. That’s the core of the job, and skipping it means the branches just get dirty again fast.
Branch Run Attention
Each branch line that snakes off the main trunk toward individual rooms gets individually brushed and vacuumed. In sprawling Fort Worth homes with long runs, this is where the quality of equipment really shows. Our gear reaches what shop-vac setups simply can’t.
Air Duct Inspection
Air Duct Inspection is a camera-assisted walkthrough of your ductwork to see exactly what’s inside: dust level, mold presence, pest activity, disconnected sections, or standing water. You need it before buying a Fort Worth home, after a flood or major leak, or when you suspect duct damage but aren’t sure what you’re dealing with. Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth runs a high-resolution camera through your ducts and gives you a straight answer about what’s in there. You see the footage, we explain what it means, and you get a written recommendation with pricing. Inspections start at $99, and if you book a cleaning within 30 days, we apply that fee to the service.
Pre-Purchase Inspection
Buying a house in Fort Worth? A standard home inspection doesn’t look inside the ductwork. We do. Knowing whether you’re inheriting clean ducts or a decade of pet hair and construction dust changes what you offer and what you budget.
Post-Water-Event Check
After a roof leak, AC condensate overflow, or the occasional North Texas flash flood, water can pool inside duct runs. Standing water in ducts breeds mold within days. We inspect, show you what the camera sees, and tell you honestly whether cleaning fixes it or whether sections need replacement.
Residential Air Duct Cleaning
Residential Duct Cleaning is whole-house duct cleaning for single-family homes, townhomes, and condos in the Fort Worth area. You need it every 3 – 5 years under normal conditions, but more often if you have shedding pets, live near construction or farmland, or run your AC nearly year-round, which most Fort Worth houses do. Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth treats every home like it’s the only one on the schedule: full brush agitation, HEPA vacuum extraction, register cover cleaning, and system inspection all in one visit. Most residential cleanings run $390 – $690, and you get a written price before we begin. A background-checked, uniformed technician arrives with the exact equipment needed – you’ll know their name before they open your door.
Pet-Friendly Homes
Fort Worth loves its dogs and cats, and every pet owner knows hair gets everywhere. Ductwork is no exception. We see homes where pet dander and hair have built up to the point that the system blows visibly dusty air. A full cleaning resets things, and we’ll tell you how often to repeat it based on how many animals share your address.
Allergy Season Relief
North Texas pollen seasons are brutal: oak and cedar in spring, ragweed in fall, and grass all summer. If your ducts are holding last season’s allergens, every AC cycle pushes them back into your bedroom. Cleaning removes the reservoir so your indoor air starts from a clean baseline.
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning
Commercial Duct Cleaning is duct and ventilation cleaning for offices, retail spaces, medical clinics, warehouses, and other commercial properties across the Fort Worth area. You need it when employees complain about allergy-like symptoms in the building, when tenant turnover reveals dirty systems, or when building codes and insurance requirements call for documented duct maintenance. Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth handles commercial work with Abatement Technologies containment units to protect occupied spaces, schedules around your business hours, and provides before-and-after photo documentation as standard. Commercial pricing depends on system size, number of units, and access constraints. We’ll survey the property, give a written quote, and stick to it.
Medical and Retail Spaces
Patient rooms and retail floors need verified clean air. For clinics in the Fort Worth Medical District and shops in Sundance Square, we offer the documentation and photo proof that property managers and compliance teams ask for. You see what was there before and what it looks like after.
Warehouse and Industrial Ducts
Dust-laden air in warehouse duct systems isn’t just uncomfortable – it can settle on inventory and machinery. We run the same negative-pressure extraction on large-gauge commercial ductwork that we run on homes, scaled up for longer runs and higher-volume systems.
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AfterBrands We Service
We work on systems from every major manufacturer, but we reach for a few names more than most in Fort Worth. Rotobrush is our primary cleaning system – a rotary brush that scrubs duct walls while a HEPA vacuum pulls debris out under negative pressure. It’s the standard in professional duct cleaning, and we maintain our units to the manufacturer’s spec. Nikro supplies our HEPA-rated extraction vacuums, the same filters rated to capture 99.97% of particles down to 0.3 microns. That matters when you’re cleaning dust that’s already been in someone’s lungs.
On the filtration side, we regularly install and service Honeywell and Guardsman filtration products when a home needs better air quality after the ducts are clean. Whether your system carries any of these names or another make entirely, we can clean it, inspect it, and keep it running properly.
Signs You Need a Pro Right Now
- Visible dust puffing from vents when the system starts. That’s not normal operation. Your ducts have become a dust reservoir, and every cycle pushes a fresh cloud into the room. It won’t clear up on its own, and it’ll only build deeper into the duct walls.
- Rooms that never reach the thermostat temperature. If your Fort Worth living room is fine but the back bedroom stays five degrees warmer all summer, you may have a disconnected or crushed duct run. Air is going somewhere – just not where you want it. We find out where and fix it.
- Musty or stale smell coming from vents. Odor that appears only when air moves through the system usually means something is growing or decaying inside the ductwork. It might be mold, it might be rodent activity. Either way, it should be inspected now, not later.
- Allergy or asthma symptoms that flare up at home but calm down elsewhere. If you feel fine at work but the sneezing starts when you walk through your front door, the indoor air is the likely trigger. Indoor air in Fort Worth homes is often dustier than outdoor air when ducts haven’t been cleaned in years.
- You just moved in and don’t know the duct history. Previous owners and tenants leave behind more than furniture. Pet hair, cooking grease, and whatever they stirred up during renovations all stay in the ductwork. A cleaning gives you a real fresh start with photo proof of what was there before.
Our Process, Step by Step
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Written price before anything else. You get a complete, itemized price in writing before a single register is pulled. No deposits, no surprise add-ons, no per-vent upcharges. One system, one price, agreed before work starts.
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System walkthrough and inspection. Our technician names themselves before arrival (you’ll know who’s coming), walks the system with you, and runs a camera into key duct sections so you both see what’s inside. Nothing hidden. No mystery buildup.
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Containment and cleaning. We seal off the system where needed, run the Rotobrush rotary system through every accessible run, and pull loosened debris into the Nikro HEPA vacuum under negative pressure. The debris goes into the vacuum, not into your house.
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Photo verification. Before-and-after photos of your actual ducts, registers, and equipment are part of every job under The Relay Standard. You see what we saw. If it looks clean, you’ll see that. If not, we keep going.
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Final walkthrough and digital invoice. We review the work together, answer any questions, and send a digital invoice you can pay from your phone. The 365-Day Done Right Promise kicks in the moment we finish – if anything isn’t right within a year, we return and fix it free.
How Much Does Air Duct Cleaning Cost in Fort Worth?
In Fort Worth, a standard whole-house air duct cleaning for a home under 2,500 square feet typically runs $390 – $490. Larger homes, two-story properties with multiple systems, or homes that haven’t been cleaned in a decade usually land between $550 – $690. If you’re only cleaning vents (register covers and accessible cavities), expect $150 – $350. Air duct inspection with camera documentation starts at $99, applied to your cleaning if booked within 30 days. Commercial jobs are quoted individually after a site survey.
What changes the price? Home size and number of vents, whether you have one system or two, how long since the last cleaning, and access issues like tight attics or hard-to-reach runs. Pet-heavy homes and post-renovation dust can add labor. None of this is a door surprise – your written price accounts for all of it before we begin.
The way to avoid overpaying is to ask for a whole-system price, not a per-vent price. Per-vent pricing is how low teaser quotes balloon into $800+ invoices once the technician is on-site. At Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth, you get one flat price per system, written down, before we touch anything. A free estimate includes the system assessment, camera inspection where needed, and the exact price for the work. No bait. No switch. That’s the whole point of The Relay Standard.
Our Service Area Near Fort Worth
Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth serves the entire Fort Worth metro, including neighborhoods like Arlington Heights, Ridglea, Wedgwood, Fairmount, and the Medical District. We also cover Air Duct Cleaning in North Richland Hills, Air Duct Cleaning in Keller, and the surrounding communities of Burleson, Watauga, Hurst, White Settlement, Azle, Everman, River Oaks, Sansom Park, and Haltom City. You’ll get a live trackable arrival window through The Relay Standard, so you’re never stuck guessing when we’ll show up.
Serving Fort Worth, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Fort Worth area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
Frequently Asked Questions About Air Duct Cleaning in Fort Worth
Air duct cleaning is the process of removing accumulated dust, pet hair, allergens, and debris from the inside of your heating and cooling ductwork. We use a rotary brush system to agitate buildup on duct walls and a HEPA-filtered vacuum to extract it under negative pressure. A full cleaning includes registers, branch runs, main trunk lines, the air handler, blower, and coil. Call (817) 730-6759 to get a written price for your Fort Worth home.
A standard single-family home in Fort Worth takes 3 – 5 hours from start to finish. Larger homes, two-story layouts with multiple systems, or heavily soiled ductwork can take longer. We’ll give you a realistic time estimate with your written price, and your live arrival window is trackable through The Relay Standard.
Most Fort Worth homes pay $390 – $690 for full-system cleaning, with smaller jobs running less and larger or heavily soiled systems running more. You’ll get an exact written price before any work starts. Call (817) 730-6759 for a free estimate based on your specific home.
Cheap quotes are usually per-vent pricing designed to get a technician in the door, where the price grows with every vent “discovered” to need extra work. Or they use shop-vac-level equipment that can’t actually reach the full duct runs. Our price covers the entire system in one number, agreed before work begins, using professional-grade Rotobrush and Nikro equipment. Call (817) 730-6759 and ask for a whole-system quote.
Every Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth job includes before-and-after photo documentation of your actual ducts, registers, and equipment under The Relay Standard. You see the debris that was removed and the surfaces after cleaning. If anything doesn’t match the photo proof, the 365-Day Done Right Promise covers it at no charge.
Every 3 – 5 years is standard for most Fort Worth homes. Homes with shedding pets, recent renovations, smokers, or residents with severe allergies may need cleaning every 1 – 3 years. If you’re not sure whether you’re due, call (817) 730-6759 for an inspection – starting at $99, applied to your cleaning if booked within 30 days.
If water has entered your ducts, visible mold is present, or a duct run has completely separated, we treat that as urgent and prioritize your call. A live person answers 24/7 – no voicemail loops. Call (817) 730-6759 and describe the situation to get scheduled quickly.
Clear access to vents and registers by moving furniture away from floor vents and ensuring attic access is available. Secure pets in a comfortable space away from the work area. Our technicians handle everything else, including protecting your floors and walking you through the system before work starts.
Schedule Your Air Duct Cleaning Service in Fort Worth Today
You’ll get a written price before work starts, a trackable arrival window, before-and-after photos of your actual ducts, and a full year of coverage under the 365-Day Done Right Promise. A live person answers 24/7 – no phone tag, no voicemail loops. Call (817) 730-6759 now for a free, no-obligation estimate on air duct cleaning in Fort Worth. If it’s not done right, we make it right. Simple as that.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Fort Worth, serving Fort Worth and the surrounding metro since 2005.