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.
Fast, Reliable Air Duct Cleaning Across Five Corners
Air duct cleaning in Five Corners, WA typically runs $425 – $690 for a standard single-family home, and the work takes about half a day. That’s for a complete system clean: supply ducts, return ducts, air handler, blower motor, and registers. If you’re off Padden Parkway or NE 78th Street and tired of dust settling on every surface within a day of wiping it down, call (737) 727-2314 for a written quote before anyone touches a vent.
We know the homes here. Five Corners has a particular mix of 1990s tract housing and small commercial storefronts, and the ductwork in both was rarely designed for how the area has changed. Warmer summers mean longer cooling seasons and more fine dust pulled through undersized returns. Older flex duct breaks down and traps what it should be moving. The result is the same in a split-level off Blairmont Drive as it is in a dental office along Padden: recirculated particulates, musty air when the system cycles, and registers that look like they’ve been dusted with flour.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning Is Five Corners’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Five Corners homeowners call us because we tell them the price before we start. Not a range that widens once a technician sees the register count. A flat, per-system number in writing. Omar Haddad built Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning inside the Relay Home Co. family, which has held to one standard since 2005: every job gets a written price, a written guarantee, and before-and-after photo proof. No exceptions, no fine print, no per-vent math at the door.
Our crews arrive in uniform, background-checked, and the person who shows up is the person whose name you already have. That matters in a place like Five Corners, where a lot of homeowners have been burned by a $49 coupon that turned into $900 once the van was in the driveway. We run Rotobrush agitation systems and Nikro HEPA vacuums on negative pressure, which means debris is pulled directly into the vacuum rather than blown into your living room. If the work isn’t right within 365 days, we come back and correct it at no charge. That’s the 365-Day Done Right Promise, and it applies to every job in Five Corners without exception.
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in Five Corners
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in Five Corners handles the light-industrial and retail spaces clustered along Padden Parkway and the mixed-use buildings radiating off NE 78th Street. These systems differ from residential in one critical way: the blower and air handler run far longer hours, often with less frequent filter changes, so debris loads build faster and in larger volumes. A typical commercial clean in this area runs $700 – $1,400 depending on square footage, duct runs, and the number of rooftop or hall-mounted air handlers.
We treat every job with Abatement Technologies containment where needed and never clean one section while blowing dust into another. The price is flat per system before we start, not per vent, and every repair gets a written guarantee plus a free second visit if it fails.
Office and Retail Spaces
For offices and storefronts in Five Corners, the goal is simple: cleaner air without shutting the business down for a day. Most jobs are completed after hours or on weekends. We inspect the air handler, blower motor, and coil first, because that’s where most recirculated odor and dust originates in commercial settings. The cleaning itself includes full supply and return runs, registers, and a camera check of the plenum.
Restaurant and Food-Service Systems
Kitchen-adjacent duct runs in Five Corners restaurants collect grease vapor that mixes with dust and forms a sticky film regular filters can’t catch. This shortens blower life and leaves a stale scent in the dining room. We address this with a combination of rotary brushing and HEPA extraction, and we document everything with photos so the building manager knows exactly what was and wasn’t cleaned.
Air Duct Cleaning Services in Five Corners
Air Duct Cleaning Services in Five Corners start with a video inspection of your supply and return runs, so we know what we’re dealing with before a single brush goes in. A full residential system clean in this area averages $425 – $690, and the majority of Five Corners homes fall right around the middle of that range. Larger homes with two systems, or properties with heavily soiled ductwork, land at the higher end.
We never quote per-vent. We quote per system. You get one number, in writing, before any work starts. That number covers the supply ducts, return ducts, registers, air handler, blower motor, and coil. If we find a cracked flex duct or a disconnected return during the job, we’ll tell you and send photos, and you decide what happens next before we do anything else.
Full System Cleaning
Most Five Corners homes need exactly this: a full system clean that addresses every surface air touches. We don’t just brush the trunk line and call it done. The air handler and blower motor are cleaned, the registers are pulled and washed, and the return chase gets the same attention as the supply side.

Video Inspection
Before any cleaning, we run a camera through the ductwork to document what’s actually inside. After the cleaning, we run it again. You’ll see the difference in before-and-after photos, which come with every job. If the camera shows damaged ductwork or collapsed flex runs, we’ll show you and talk through options, but you’ll never pay for repairs you didn’t approve in writing first.

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.
Trusted Brands We Service in Five Corners
Most Five Corners homes run on a mix of whatever was installed when the house went up, and we service all of it. Brand doesn’t change the cleaning approach, but it does change what we look for. Honeywell and Aprilaire media cabinets collect dust differently than a basic 1-inch filter tray. Guardsman filters need proper seating or they bypass air entirely. Our trucks carry common sizes and we can replace a collapsed filter cabinet same day if you want it done. The equipment on our side is Rotobrush for agitation, Nikro for HEPA extraction, and Abatement Technologies for containment where a job calls for it.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Five Corners Homes
Five Corners ductwork has patterns. Here’s what shows up most in this area:
- Construction dust from the original build. Homes off NE 78th Street and around Blairmont Drive that went up in the 1990s often still carry drywall dust and sawdust in the supply runs. It wasn’t cleaned from the start, and it cycles through the registers every time the furnace or AC runs.
- Undersized return ducts. Many of the tract homes here have a single central return that can’t keep up with the system, so it pulls air from wherever it can: the garage, the crawl space, the wall cavity. That means insulation fibers and crawl space dust end up in your ductwork and then your lungs.
- Broken-down flex duct. The older flex runs in these homes sag, tear, or collapse over time. When a return flex duct tears, it pulls unfiltered air from the attic or crawl space. No amount of filter changes fixes that.
- Pet hair and dander packed against the blower motor. With the number of multi-pet households in the area, the blower motor and evaporator coil in many Five Corners homes are caked with hair and dander. That’s a big reason the house smells like a dog the moment the system turns on.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Five Corners, WA
Here’s the honest math for Five Corners. A standard single-system home runs $425 – $690. Two-story homes with a single system typically land around $550 – $650. Homes with two separate systems, or homes with a large amount of supply and return runs, run $700 – $950. Commercial spaces along Padden Parkway run $700 – $1,400 depending on scale. What changes the price is system size, contamination level, and whether your air handler needs additional time to clean properly.
What never changes the price is the number of vents. We quote per system, not per vent, and the price we hand you before starting is the price on the invoice when we leave. You’ll also get before-and-after photos of your own ducts, so you can see exactly what you paid for. Call (737) 727-2314 for a free estimate, written and straightforward.
We Also Serve Cities Near Five Corners
Our Air Duct Cleaning team covers Five Corners and the surrounding metro, including Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver. If you’re in one of those areas, the same flat per-system pricing, written guarantee, and 365-Day Done Right Promise apply. This page is about Air Duct Cleaning in Five Corners, but we’re happy to help wherever you are.
Serving Five Corners, WA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Five Corners 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 Air Duct Cleaning in Five Corners
Most Five Corners homes need a full duct cleaning every 3 to 5 years. That’s the honest interval. If you have pets that shed heavily, if you’ve done renovation work recently, or if someone in the house has allergies or asthma, closer to every 2 to 3 years makes sense. Homes along Padden Parkway that pick up more road and construction dust often see faster buildup. If you’ve never had the ducts cleaned and the house was built in the 1990s, do it once and then reassess. Call (737) 727-2314 and we’ll tell you if your system actually needs it before we quote anything.
Flat rate per system, every time. We never charge per vent. Some companies in this area advertise one price and then adjust it at the door based on how many registers they find. We don’t do that. The price we give you before the job starts is the price on the final invoice, and it covers every supply duct, return duct, register, the air handler, and the blower motor. One number, in writing, no math at the door.
We start with a video inspection of your ductwork to see what’s inside. Then we connect a Nikro HEPA vacuum to create negative pressure in the system while a Rotobrush agitates the walls of every duct run. The loosened debris is pulled directly into the vacuum, not pushed into your living space. We then clean the air handler, blower motor, and evaporator coil, because if those stay dirty, the cleaning was pointless. Finally, we run the camera again and show you before-and-after photos of your own ducts. The whole job takes about half a day for most Five Corners homes.
Yes. We clean commercial duct systems in Five Corners regularly, from retail spaces off Padden Parkway to medical offices and restaurants near NE 78th Street. Commercial jobs run longer because the systems are larger and the blowers have usually run for years without deep cleaning. We work after hours or on weekends where needed, and every commercial job gets the same flat per-system pricing and before-and-after photo documentation. Call (737) 727-2314 for a commercial quote.
Dryer vent cleaning matters in Five Corners because lint buildup is a fire risk, and many of the homes here have long vent runs through walls or crawl spaces where lint accumulates without any visible sign at the exterior vent. The National Fire Protection Association recommends cleaning dryer vents annually or whenever drying time increases noticeably. We offer dryer vent cleaning as a standalone service or alongside a full duct clean, and it includes a before-and-after photo of the vent run, so you can see the blockage was cleared. Call (737) 727-2314 to add it to your duct cleaning.
Ready to see what’s in your ducts? Call Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning at (737) 727-2314 or book online. We’ll quote a flat per-system price before any work starts, show up on time with a live trackable arrival window, and send before-and-after photos of your own ducts when the job is done. If it’s not done right within 365 days, we’ll come back and make it right at no charge. That’s the standard for every home and business in Five Corners.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning, serving Five Corners as part of the Relay Home Co. family since 2005.




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