Air Duct Cleaning in Marietta - One Price Per System, Agreed Before We Start

Trusted Air Duct Cleaning for Marietta Homeowners

If your home in Marietta has been dusting the same furniture twice a week and still seeing a film settle by Friday, the problem is rarely your cleaning schedule. It’s the air your HVAC system pushes through every room. We’re Kestrel Air Duct Marietta, and we’ve been providing Residential Duct Cleaning in Cobb County homes since our founding in 2004 under the Kingswell Guarantee. That means a written price in your hands before any work begins, a defined arrival window, and a 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing on every single job. When you call (762) 533-6494, a live person answers, no matter the hour.

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Air Duct Cleaning Services

Air Duct Cleaning Services remove the layer of dust, pet dander, pollen, and debris that builds up inside your supply and return ductwork over years of normal heating and cooling. Most Marietta homes need a Full System Cleaning every three to five years, more often if you have shedding pets, recent renovations, or anyone in the house with allergies. We run Rotobrush rotary brush systems through every reachable duct to dislodge debris at the duct wall, then use Nikro negative-pressure units to pull the loosened contaminants out instead of blowing them into your living room. Most homes in Marietta run between $450 and $900 depending on square footage and the number of returns. Every quote is written before we touch a single vent.

Whole-Home Cleaning

We clean every supply duct, return duct, main trunk line, and both plenums. No partial work, no skipped runs because they were hard to reach.

The process includes Abatement Technologies HEPA filtration at the return side, so particles we loosen never escape back into your breathing air.

Post-Renovation Cleanup

Drywall dust and sawdust settle deep in duct runs during remodels and will keep circulating for months after the contractor leaves. We see this constantly in Marietta homes built through the 1980s and 1990s that are now getting kitchen and bath updates.

A dedicated post-construction cleaning pulls that fine powder out before it coats every surface in the house again. If you just finished a project, this is the single most effective step you can take.

HVAC Duct Cleaning

HVAC Duct Cleaning focuses on the full loop your air travels: the return side that pulls air in, the air handler where it’s conditioned, and the supply side that pushes it back out. When any part of that loop is coated in dust, your system works harder, cycles longer, and circulates the same particles through every room. We clean the entire path, including the return drop, the supply plenum, and all branch runs, using negative-air extraction to keep your home under constant vacuum while we work. For a typical single-system home in Marietta, expect to pay between $500 and $850. The written quote you get before the job is the price you pay, full stop.

Return-Side Deep Cleaning

The Return Duct Cleaning side pulls unfiltered air through your home, which means it collects more dust per square foot than the supply side. If your filter sat loose or you’ve used low-MERV fiberglass filters, the return drop can be caked.

We hand-clean the return plenum and branch returns before running the brush system, because a brush alone won’t break up the hardened film that forms there.

Coil and Blower Protection

Clean ducts keep your evaporator coil and blower motor from being buried in re-circulating dust. The less debris moving through the system, the less that settles on the coil.

We don’t clean coils as a service line, but clean ductwork measurably reduces the load on them. That’s why we recommend duct cleaning as part of any major HVAC maintenance cycle.

Vent Cleaning

Vent Cleaning at Kestrel means the visible grilles and registers in your Marietta home, plus the first several feet of duct behind them where dust and hair collect at the bend. Over time, supply vents develop gray fuzz around the louvers and return grilles get coated in a mat of dust, pet hair, and cooking residue. We remove every vent cover, hand-wash them, and vacuum the visible duct opening before the main cleaning begins. Vent cleaning is always included in a full duct cleaning, never sold as a separate add-on. If you only need vents addressed, most Marietta homes fall between $150 and $350 depending on the number of registers.

Supply Vent Restoration

Metal and plastic vent covers come off, get degreased, and go back clean. We also wipe down the immediate opening so the first air your system pushes out isn’t passing through a dust ring.

This matters more than it sounds: a clean register face changes the first impression of the room’s air, and it prevents that constant gray smudge on your ceiling or baseboards.

Return Grille Cleaning

Return grilles trap an entire house worth of dust on their louvers, and vacuuming the face only gets the surface layer. We remove the grille, clean the back side, and clear the cavity behind it.

In Marietta homes with a single large return, this one grille can account for a surprising share of visible dust. Getting it fully clean makes the whole system look and perform better.

Air Duct Repair

Air Duct Repair addresses the physical failures that let conditioned air escape before it ever reaches your rooms: separated joints, crushed flex runs, rusted-out sections, and loose hangers that let ducts sag and pull apart. In Marietta’s humid climate, older galvanized ductwork near the crawlspace or slab can rust through, and we regularly find runs that have come apart at the elbows. Kestrel repairs or replaces damaged sections as part of a cleaning service when we find them, and we’ll point them out with before-and-after photos before any repair happens. Simple repairs typically run $200 to $600 depending on access and the length of duct affected; the written quote covers the full cost.

Leak Sealing

Leaky ducts mean you’re paying to condition air in the crawlspace or attic. We seal joints with mastic and foil tape, not the gray cloth tape that dries out and peels in an attic summer.

A sealed duct system can cut the conditioned air lost before it reaches your vents by a measurable amount. For most homes, this is the fastest payback in the whole HVAC envelope.

Crushed Flex-Run Replacement

Flex duct that’s been stepped on in the attic or crushed by storage collapses and chokes airflow to the rooms it feeds. We replace kinked or torn flex runs with properly sized, properly hung sections.

In two-story Marietta homes, upstairs rooms with weak airflow often trace back to a crushed flex run in the attic. A replacement restores balanced airflow and shortens run times.

Ductwork Cleaning

Ductwork Cleaning is the heavier, more thorough version of the work people think of when they hear “duct cleaning.” It involves brushing the full interior surface of the main trunk lines and branches, not just vacuuming what a hose can reach. We use Rotobrush rotary brush systems to scrub the duct wall mechanically, then Nikro negative-pressure units to keep the entire system under vacuum so debris exits directly into the collection unit. This is the method that actually removes the gray film that adheres to metal duct surfaces after years of condensation and dust. For a full ductwork cleaning in Marietta, most homes run $550 to $950. Your written price is set before we begin and doesn’t change at the door.

Main Trunk Line Access

The trunk lines running the length of your house carry the most air volume and collect the most layered dust. We cut and cap access ports where needed to reach them properly.

Access ports are closed with airtight metal caps when we’re done, not left open or covered in tape. It’s a small detail that stops leaks from forming after the job.

Pet Hair and Allergen Removal

Homes with dogs or cats have a visible difference in duct contents, and it’s not subtle. Hair works into the fiber pad of the duct liner and sticks there until mechanically agitated.

The brush system pulls those mats of hair and dander out where vacuum-only methods leave them behind. If someone in the house has a pet allergy, this is the part of the service that changes how they feel at home.

Air Duct Inspection

Air Duct Inspection is how we see what’s actually inside your ductwork before recommending any cleaning or repair. We run a small high-resolution camera down the main runs and capture footage you’ll see yourself before anyone quotes you a dollar. Inspections in Marietta are free when bundled with a cleaning, and standalone inspections typically run $99 to $199 depending on system size and access. What the camera finds determines whether you need a full cleaning, a targeted repair, or nothing at all this year. We’ll never sell you work the footage doesn’t support.

Pre-Purchase Home Evaluation

If you’re buying a home in Marietta, a duct inspection shows you what the home inspector’s flashlight can’t reach inside the duct runs. Mold growth, old rodent nests, and separated runs all show up on camera.

This is a cheap way to avoid inheriting a hidden problem that costs hundreds to fix after closing. We provide the footage for your negotiation file.

Annual Maintenance Check

For homes with known issues or allergy-sensitive residents, an annual camera inspection tracks whether the ducts are building up dust faster than normal. It also catches early rust or sagging before it becomes a full repair.

The inspection record gives you a baseline, so you know what “clean” looks like in your home and when the next cleaning is actually due, not just when a calendar says so.

Residential Air Duct Cleaning

Residential Air Duct Cleaning is the core of what Marietta homeowners call us for: a whole-home cleaning done in a single visit, with a written price before we start and a 365-Day Done Right Promise after we leave. We clean every supply and return run, both plenums, the trunk lines, and every vent cover in the house. Most single-family homes in Marietta take between three and six hours, with pricing between $450 and $900 based on square footage, number of returns, and accessibility. The goal is straightforward: the air coming out of your vents should be as clean as the air in a properly maintained system allows.

Allergy and Asthma Households

When a family member has asthma or environmental allergies, the ducts stop being a background system and start being a health factor. Dust mites, pollen, and pet dander that sit in ducts recirculate constantly during heating and cooling season.

We prioritize these homes for scheduling and take extra care to keep the living space spotless during the work. HEPA filtration on the negative-pressure unit means nothing loosened during cleaning escapes back into the home.

Pet-Heavy Homes

Multiple dogs or cats produce a constant stream of hair and dander that finds its way into returns and settles through the whole duct system. It clings to the inside of supply runs and produces that “dog smell” when the heat kicks on.

Our brush system dislodges hair packs that vacuum cleaning cannot pull free. Homeowners with two or more pets usually notice the difference immediately, especially in the first heating cycle after the job.

Commercial Air Duct Cleaning

Commercial Duct Cleaning for Marietta offices, retail spaces, churches, and multi-tenant buildings requires different equipment, scheduling, and documentation than residential work. Kestrel cleans commercial duct systems during off-hours or weekends to avoid disrupting business operations. Pricing is based on total duct length, number of units, and accessibility, with most small commercial jobs in Marietta starting around $1,200 and scaling from there. Every commercial job still gets a written quote before work begins and the same 365-Day Done Right Promise as any home we clean.

Offices and Retail Spaces

Offices with enforced HVAC cycles and older rooftop units accumulate dust in duct runs that gets distributed across desks, inventory, and equipment. We schedule cleanings around your operating hours so business continues without interruption.

Cleaner ducts in commercial spaces also mean less dust settling on products and electronics, which reduces the janitorial burden between cleaning rotations.

Churches and Community Buildings

Large open spaces with high ceilings and long duct runs need extended brushing equipment and scaffolding access. We carry the reach tools for tall plenums and long trunk runs common in older Cobb County church buildings.

These buildings often have decades of dust built up, and a full commercial cleaning visibly brightens the air in the sanctuary and fellowship spaces. We’ll quote the full job in writing, including any access considerations, before we book the date.

Brands We Service

Our technicians work with Rotobrush rotary brush systems on every cleaning, backed by Nikro negative-pressure extraction units and Abatement Technologies HEPA filtration. That combination is what lets us agitate dust off the duct walls while the home stays under continuous vacuum. The equipment matters because a box-store shop vac with a brush attachment doesn’t generate the static pressure or airflow needed to clean a full trunk line.

For homeowners who want to keep their indoor air cleaner between service visits, we offer Honeywell and Aprilaire filtration products. Whether you have a Honeywell media cabinet, an Aprilaire whole-home unit, or any other make, we can help you match the right filter to your system during a regular service visit.

Signs You Need a Pro Right Now

• Dust settles on furniture within two days of cleaning. That’s not your cleaning routine failing. It’s the supply ducts pushing dust back into the rooms every time the system cycles on.
• The return grille grows a gray fuzz you can’t vacuum off. Return grilles collect the most dust because they pull unfiltered air in. A mat forming there means the duct behind it holds much more you can’t see.
• You smell a musty, stale odor when the heat first kicks on. In Marietta’s humid summers, condensation inside ducts can allow dust to cake and smell. That odor moves through the whole house every heating cycle.
• Some rooms never reach the temperature set on the thermostat. Crushed flex runs, closed dampers, or partially separated joints can starve far rooms of airflow. The furnace runs longer, and the rooms never get comfortable.
• You’ve renovated recently and the dust never stopped. Drywall and sawdust settle in the duct system during construction and keep recirculating for months after the contractor leaves. A post-remodel cleaning is the only way to flush it out.

Our Process, Step by Step

1. 1
   Written quote before anything else. A Kestrel technician walks your system, counts the returns, checks access points, and writes a flat price for the whole job. That price is in your hands before a single vent comes off the wall.
2. 2
   Equipment setup with negative-air containment. We connect the Nikro extraction unit at the furnace or air handler and seal it to maintain negative pressure inside the duct system. This makes sure dust we loosen flows outward into the collection unit, not back into your living room.
3. 3
   Rotobrush agitation and full run cleaning. Each branch run gets mechanically brushed to break up deposits on the duct wall. Then the extraction system pulls the loosened debris through the trunk and out of the home entirely.
4. 4
   Vent covers removed, washed, and reinstalled. Every register and grille comes off, gets degreased and dried, then goes back clean. The opening behind each one gets vacuumed so you’re not looking at a dust ring the next day.
5. 5
   Walkthrough with documentation and guarantee. We show you before-and-after photos of your own ducts, not a stock image. Then we put the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing: if anything falls short within the guarantee period, we come back and make it right at no charge.

How Much Does Air Duct Cleaning Cost in Marietta?

Our Service Area Near Marietta

Kestrel Air Duct Marietta serves homeowners throughout Cobb County and the surrounding northwest metro. If you’re in Roswell, Woodstock, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Vinings, Acworth, Powder Springs, or Mableton, you’re within our regular service area and we can schedule your duct cleaning without a travel surcharge. We also reach homes in North Druid Hills, Scottdale, and Fair Oaks. Most appointments are scheduled within a week, and our defined arrival window is part of the written commitment before we ever show up. If you’re nearby and wondering about our schedule, call (762) 533-6494 and we’ll set a window that works.

Frequently Asked Questions About Air Duct Cleaning in Marietta

Schedule Your Air Duct Cleaning Service in Marietta Today

Call (762) 533-6494 and you’ll get a live person, a straight answer, and a written price for your Marietta home’s duct cleaning. No per-vent gimmicks, no door-step price changes, and a 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. Dale Whitmore and the Kestrel Air Duct Marietta team serve Marietta, Roswell, Woodstock, and the surrounding Cobb County area. Schedule your air duct cleaning and return home to cleaner air.

Written by Dale Whitmore, Owner at Kestrel Air Duct Marietta, serving Marietta since 2004.