Whole-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.
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AfterFast, Reliable HVAC Cleaning Across Sunset
Air Duct Cleaning in Sunset typically runs $380 – $650 for a complete system including ducts, air handler, blower, and coils, and most jobs take 4 – 6 hours from setup to final photos. If you live near Sunset Drive, Coral Way, or the neighborhoods around SW 72nd Street, we’re 20 – 35 minutes out once your appointment is booked (never same-day promises; we schedule properly). The honest answer matters more: cleaning is genuinely worth it when your ducts hold dust, your coils are matted, or your registers show streaking. Call (737) 727-2314 and Omar or a member of the team will walk through what your system actually needs. We won’t upsell you into work that isn’t there.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning Is Sunset’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company
We’re part of the Relay Home Co. family, founded 2005, and every HVAC Cleaning job we run follows the same standard: a written price before work begins, a live arrival window you can track from your phone, and before-and-after photos of your own ductwork. Sunset homeowners keep booking us because we don’t do the bait-and-switch stuff. No per-vent pricing that suddenly doubles when the tech arrives. No vague “comprehensive package” upsell at the door. Exactly one flat price per system, on paper, before a single register is touched.
Omar Haddad runs our Sunset work personally. When you book, you’ll know the technician’s name before they arrive, and they’ll be in uniform with professional-grade equipment: Rotobrush brush systems for source removal, Nikro HEPA vacuums for true negative-pressure extraction, and Abatement Technologies containment when needed. Calls are answered by a live person, not a voicemail tree, at any hour. That’s the Relay Standard, and it applies just as strictly on a 900-square-foot condo near West Miami as it does on a sprawling estate off Old Cutler.
Furnace Cleaning in Sunset
Furnace cleaning in Sunset is a smaller share of our work than in northern Florida, but when a home has a gas furnace paired with a heat pump or a straight gas furnace from an older build, it needs real attention. The job involves pulling the blower assembly, brushing the heat exchanger, vacuuming the burner compartment, and confirming the flue is clear. Coastal humidity accelerates rust on heat exchanger surfaces, and corrosion flakes end up in the airstream. In Sunset homes built in the 1970s and 1980s along Bird Road and Galloway, we regularly find heat exchangers with surface rust that’s spread fine metallic dust through the supply ducts.
Furnace cleaning as a stand-alone service runs $150 – $280 in Sunset. If the furnace is part of a full HVAC cleaning including ductwork and coils, the furnace portion is included in the whole-system price. We don’t charge separately for things that are already on the truck.
What Gets Cleaned
The burner assembly, blower wheel, motor housing, heat exchanger surfaces, and the furnace cabinet interior. We also check the condensate line if the furnace is a high-efficiency condensing model. Any cracked heat exchanger gets flagged immediately in writing with a photo; that’s not a cleaning issue, it’s a safety item, and we’ll show you exactly what we found. The 365-Day Done Right Promise applies: if the work isn’t right within a year, we return and correct it at no charge.
AC Vent Cleaning in Sunset
AC vent cleaning in Sunset means more than wiping register faces. We dislodge and extract debris from the full supply and return duct runs, including the trunk lines and branch flex ducts in your attic. Miami-Dade’s subtropical climate keeps systems running nearly year-round, so the evaporator coil stays wet, condensation sits in the drain pan, and organic material accumulates inside supply ducts faster than in dry climates. Homes in Sunset with slab-on-grade construction typically route flex duct through attics that cross 120°F in July and August. We’ve pulled collapsed sections out of attics near Coral Way that were strangling airflow long before any amount of vent wiping would help.
AC vent cleaning that actually does something for a Sunset home runs $300 – $550 when completed as part of a full duct and coil cleaning. A standalone vent and duct cleaning, without coil or blower service, runs $250 – $400 depending on the number of supply branches and whether there’s a second return. We’ll give you the exact number in writing before work begins.
Negative-Pressure Extraction
That’s the term for how we extract what we loosen. A HEPA vacuum creates steady negative pressure in the duct system while a Rotobrush agitates the walls. Debris goes to the vacuum canister; it does not get blown through your living room. We run this on every vent cleaning, no exceptions, and we photograph the return plenum before and after so you can see what came out.
Register and Grille Care
We remove, clean, and replace every register and grille as part of the job. If a register is rusted from years of condensation dripping off a cold air handler in a hot attic, we’ll flag it and can swap in a new one if you want. We don’t charge extra for the labor of register removal on a standard job.
Trusted Brands We Service in Sunset
We service and clean Trane, Carrier, Rheem, Goodman, Lennox, Bryant, and York, plus older Ruud and American Standard units still running in Sunset homes. We also install and source filtration products from Honeywell and Aprilaire when a homeowner wants a better media filter than the basic one-inch fiberglass. Our truck stock includes Aprilaire MERV 11 and MERV 13 media replacement filters, which means common replacements happen same-visit without another trip. If your air handler is in a hot attic near Tamiami Trail, we’ll show you how a sealed Aprilaire cabinet can keep the filter from bowing in the humidity.
Common HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Sunset Homes
- Collapsed flex duct in hot attics. Attics here regularly exceed 120°F in summer, and the aluminumized flex duct used in slab-on-grade homes sags, kinks, or collapses under its own weight. A cleaning that doesn’t inspect and flag this misses the thing actually choking airflow.
- Mold and microbial growth on evaporator coils. Year-round cooling means the indoor coil rarely dries out between cycles. Condensation and humidity feed surface growth that travels through the ductwork. Surface cleaning with a proper antimicrobial treatment (we use EPA-registered products) is standard on our full HVAC cleaning in Sunset.
- Per-vent bait pricing that omits the air handler. It’s common here. A company quotes $9 per vent, arrives, and then “discovers” the air handler and blower are extra, tripling the invoice. We quote one flat price per system, written, before work begins. No per-vent surprise math.
- Rusted heat exchangers in gas furnaces. In older Sunset homes that kept a standing-pilot furnace, the coastal humidity and lack of a dry winter mean the exchanger corrodes even when the system sits idle through a mild December. We inspect and photograph every exchanger during a furnace cleaning; if it’s compromised, you’ll have the evidence in writing.
Pricing for HVAC Cleaning in Sunset, FL
A full system clean, meaning supply ducts, return ducts, air handler, evaporator coil, blower wheel, and drain pan, runs $380 – $650 for a typical Sunset home up to about 2,500 square feet. Larger homes or systems with multiple returns run $650 – $850. The variables are honest ones: how many supply branches, whether you have one return or two, and whether the flex duct in the attic needs repair or replacement. That last one is a separate discussion with photos and a written price attached; we don’t hide it inside a “cleaning” that doesn’t address it. Furnace cleaning alone: $150 – $280. Evaporator coil treatment and antimicrobial application: $95 – $175 added to a full clean. Call (737) 727-2314 for a free estimate in Sunset. You’ll get a number you can hold, not a range that walks up when the truck arrives.
We Also Serve Cities Near Sunset
Our crews work throughout Sunset and the surrounding South Florida metro area. If you’re in Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, or any point in between, we’ll get a uniformed technician to you with the same flat-price guarantee and the same Relay Standard arrival tracking. Dispatch is coordinated from our South FL office, so scheduling a job from anywhere in the region is straightforward.
Serving Sunset, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Sunset area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About HVAC Cleaning in Sunset
Every 3 to 5 years for a typical Sunset home with a properly maintained system and regularly changed filters. If you have pets, you’re inside a construction corridor, or someone in the home has severe allergies or asthma, closer to every 2 to 3 years is defensible. But we’ll tell you honestly when cleaning isn’t needed: if your ducts are visually clean, your coils aren’t matted, and your filter catches debris properly, the right answer is “not yet.” We’ve talked homeowners out of a cleaning more than once, because the 365-Day Done Right Promise means we’d rather be accurate than busy. Call (737) 727-2314 for an assessment, and we’ll show you the photos to back up whatever we say.
Flat price per system, always, written before any work starts. We do not charge per vent. No per-register pricing, no line items that appear after the technician walks your attic. The price you receive when you book is the price on the invoice, and if we find something that needs repair during the cleaning, we show you photos and a separate written quote before touching that section. Call (737) 727-2314 and you’ll have a firm price before the appointment ends.
Yes, every time, without you asking. The Relay Standard includes photo documentation of the return plenum, coil, and representative supply runs before and after the cleaning. You get these delivered to your phone before we leave the driveway, and they’re in your digital invoice for good. It’s how you know the work was done, not just claimed. No equipment on the truck? No photos? That’s not a duct cleaning, that’s a story. We show the work.
First we photograph the system and identify access points. Then we set up negative pressure with a HEPA vacuum, usually through the return side, and run a Rotobrush through the duct runs to agitate and remove debris. The coil, blower wheel, and drain pan get cleaned and treated, and registers are removed, cleaned, and replaced. If you have an attic system, we inspect the flex duct, because Sunset’s heat does real damage up there. The process takes 4 – 6 hours for a typical home. If you want a walkthrough, call (737) 727-2314; we’ll tell you exactly what your system needs before scheduling.
Almost certainly yes. We work on Trane, Carrier, Rheem, Goodman, Lennox, Bryant, York, Ruud, American Standard, and most other residential brands installed in Sunset homes. We don’t clean your ducts based on the brand name; the process is the same source removal and HEPA extraction regardless of trim level. But we’ll know the specific access points and common failure spots on the brand you have, which matters when you’re paying a flat price and want the job done properly. If you’re unsure whether we cover your system, call (737) 727-2314 and ask; you’ll talk to a person, not a phone tree.
If your Sunset home’s HVAC system hasn’t been opened up and photographed in years, call Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning at (737) 727-2314 for a free estimate. You’ll get a written price per system before any work begins, a live arrival window you can track, and before-and-after photos of your own ducts. That’s what HVAC Cleaning is supposed to look like.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning, serving Sunset, FL as part of the Relay Home Co. family, founded 2005.