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 Air Duct Cleaning Across New Braunfels
Most standard air duct cleanings in New Braunfels run $450 – $850 for a typical single-family home, and the work takes about half a day. That’s the honest number, and it’s the one we hand you in writing before a single register is touched. We’re Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning, part of the Relay Home Co. family founded in 2005, and we serve New Braunfels homeowners with flat per-system pricing, before-and-after photos, and a 365-day guarantee. Call (737) 727-2314 any time, a live person answers.
If you live near Landa Park, off Walnut Avenue, or in one of the 78130 subdivisions north of Loop 337, you already know the dust we’re talking about. It shows up on furniture within days of wiping it down. It’s in the return grilles before you even look closely. And it’s not just surface dust; it’s what’s moving through the duct runs every time the AC cycles.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning Is New Braunfels’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
New Braunfels homeowners call us because we don’t play the per-vent pricing game. That’s where a quote sounds cheap over the phone, then balloons once a tech counts every register and return. Half the calls we get in New Braunfels start with someone telling us about that exact experience with another company. We do one flat price per system, agreed before work starts. No per-vent math. No surprise add-ons at the door.
Omar Haddad leads our team, and every technician who shows up at a New Braunfels home is background-checked, uniformed, and running professional equipment: Rotobrush rotary brush systems, Nikro HEPA-rated vacuum extraction, Abatement Technologies containment units. You’ll know the tech’s name before they arrive, and you’ll get a live trackable arrival window through The Relay Standard booking experience. That’s not a promise of same-day service; it’s a commitment to visibility. You’ll see exactly when we’re coming, and you’ll get before-and-after photos of your own ducts when the job is done.
HVAC Duct Cleaning in New Braunfels
HVAC Duct Cleaning in New Braunfels means cleaning the full path air travels through your heating and cooling system: supply runs that push conditioned air into rooms, return runs that pull it back to the air handler, and the trunk lines connecting them. In this part of Comal County, that path collects more than household dust. Gulf humidity and Hill Country cedar pollen combine to form a tacky film on duct walls, especially in homes near the Comal and Guadalupe corridors. That film doesn’t just sit there; it builds layer by layer until airflow drops and the system has to work harder to move the same volume of air.
We perform negative-pressure extraction on every New Braunfels HVAC job. That means the loosened debris goes straight into a HEPA-filtered vacuum, not back into your living room. A proper setup seals the system at the air handler and runs the vacuum the entire time agitation tools work through each branch. That’s the opposite of the shop-vac approach, which just stirs limestone dust around inside the return and leaves the fine particles airborne.
Full System Cleaning
A full system cleaning in New Braunfels covers supply ducts, return ducts, the air handler cavity, blower assembly, and coil. We have seen the interior of enough Comal County air handlers to know the coil is often collecting its own layer of what got through the filter. When that layer reduces coil efficiency, your AC runs longer to hit the same thermostat setting, which shows up in higher CPS Energy bills.
Video Inspection
We don’t ask you to trust that the ducts are clean. We put a camera into the runs before and after the job, and you see the same view we do. That’s standard on New Braunfels jobs, not an upsell. In older homes off Gruene Road or along the 78132 corridor, the camera sometimes catches something the initial walkthrough didn’t: a collapsed flex run, a disconnected boot, a six-foot gap where two sections of trunk line separated years ago. If we find that, we show you the image, explain what it means, and give you a repair price in writing before any extra work happens.
Vent Cleaning in New Braunfels
Vent Cleaning in New Braunfels covers the register openings and visible vent interiors that become the most obvious sign of buildup. When you look at the supply register on your hallway ceiling and see grey fuzz or dark streaking around the louvers, that’s the visible top layer of what’s inside. In New Braunfels, the grey tint is often cedar pollen that settled and stuck, while the chalky residue on the vent body is pulverized limestone from the Edwards Plateau. Neither one is just cosmetic; both are evidence of what’s moving through the air you breathe indoors.
We clean every register and return grille as part of a whole-system job, not as a separate add-on. The vent cleaning includes removing each register, cleaning the fin surfaces, wiping the register boot inside the wall or ceiling opening, and reseating everything correctly. If a register has been painted over in a 1970s ranch off Landa Street, we take care of the paint edge before pulling it so you don’t end up with a chipped drywall ring.
Supply and Return Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts push air out; return ducts pull air back. Most New Braunfels homeowners assume the supply side is dirtier, since it moves air after the filter. Then we show them the return side after a hot summer, where the system has been pulling unfiltered air up from the floor into the air handler. Return runs often hold more pet hair, carpet fiber, and construction debris, especially in homes built before current return-filter standards.
Trusted Brands We Service in New Braunfels
Our New Braunfels jobs involve equipment from the brands that actually clean professional duct systems, not homeowner-grade tools. The Rotobrush brush systems scrub duct interiors, Nikro HEPA vacuums extract debris under constant negative pressure, and Abatement Technologies containment units keep the work area isolated. Where filtration matters, we install Honeywell media cabinets and Aprilaire whole-home filtration products. For New Braunfels customers we keep common replacement parts and filter media stocked in our San Antonio metro dispatch office, which means we typically don’t spend your weekday waiting on a parts order. Equipment brands matter less than the operator, but a technician who brings Rotobrush and Nikro to the job is telling you something about the standard they’re held to.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in New Braunfels Homes
- Cedar pollen film in return and supply trunks: New Braunfels sits where Gulf humidity meets Hill Country cedar. Duct walls get sticky, pollen sticks, and standard brushing alone won’t remove it. Agitation plus true negative pressure is the only way to pull it off the duct surface rather than pushing it deeper.
- Collapsed or disconnected flex runs in older attics: In homes built in the 1980s and 1990s around Gruene Road and along Walnut Avenue, flex duct in the attic breaks down under Texas heat. A camera inspection catches what a hand inside the return can’t see. If a run is disconnected, cleaning it is the wrong job entirely; it needs to be reconnected or replaced first.
- Dryer vent lint packing behind walls: A standard HVAC cleaning doesn’t include the dryer vent, but New Braunfels homes with a long dryer run behind the laundry wall often have a packed lint pathway. We have cleared runs where lint was compressed into a solid block that had reduced airflow to near zero. We’ll check it while we’re already on the property and give you a separate quote before touching it.
- Construction debris from renovation work: New Braunfels has grown fast, and a lot of homes have seen a remodel or addition. Drywall dust and framing debris from a single bathroom renovation can sit in the ducts for years. It shows up as a fine white powder around supply registers, and it’s not from the outdoors; it’s from the job site.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in New Braunfels, TX
A standard whole-home air duct cleaning in New Braunfels for a single system runs $450 – $850. Larger homes with two systems run $800 – $1,400. If you have a long second-story flex run off the air handler, that’s built into the system price, not counted per vent. The factors that legitimately move the number are system count, number of returns, and whether the job includes interior coil cleaning. Our written price is given to you before any work starts, and it does not change at the door. Every New Braunfels job includes before-and-after camera footage of your own ducts, and it’s 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. Call (737) 727-2314 for an exact quote; estimates are free.
We Also Serve Cities Near New Braunfels
Our crews run a regular route through Comal and Guadalupe counties, so Air Duct Cleaning coverage includes not just New Braunfels but also Seguin, San Marcos, Cibolo, and Schertz. Each of those towns brings its own dust profile, and the same flat-price standard applies no matter the zip code. If you’re just outside New Braunfels city limits, call and we’ll confirm coverage for your street.
For residents across the wider area, we’re known as the Air Duct Cleaning in New Braunfels team that shows up with real equipment and a real camera.
Serving New Braunfels, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the New Braunfels 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 New Braunfels
Most New Braunfels homes need a full duct cleaning every 3 to 5 years. Homes with pets, recent renovation dust, or cedar sensitivity may need it every 2 to 3 years. If you run your AC nine months of the year and live near the greenbelt or along the river corridor, the pollen and limestone dust load builds faster than in a drier city like San Antonio to the south. If the return grille looks grey, it’s worth a camera look before committing. Call (737) 727-2314 and we’ll tell you honestly if cleaning will help or if your money is better spent elsewhere.
By the system. One flat price per system, agreed in writing before we start, and it does not change at the door. We do not quote per vent, we don’t count registers to build the invoice, and we never tack on a long-run charge once a tech sees the second-floor flex. If you’ve ever been quoted a low per-vent price that turned into a much larger total, that’s the exact model we don’t operate.
Yes. Every New Braunfels job includes before-and-after camera images of your own ducts, not a generic marketing photo. You’ll see the return drop, the supply trunk, and the coil area before we run the tools and after we finish. If a duct needs repair rather than cleaning, we show you a photo and give you a written repair price before doing the work. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers every job we perform for a full year.
No. Air duct cleaning is a scheduled job, and doing it right takes about half a day. Anyone promising same-day duct cleaning is either cutting corners or planning to upsell you once they arrive. We operate on The Relay Standard: a live trackable arrival window, a written price before work starts, and before-and-after photos when the job is done. That’s more valuable than speed. Call (737) 727-2314 to schedule.
No, dryer vent cleaning is a separate service, but in New Braunfels we’ll often spot a packed dryer run while doing the HVAC job and flag it for you. New Braunfels homes with a long dryer run behind the laundry wall are common, and a packed lint pathway is a fire hazard. If we see it, we’ll quote it separately and you decide. Some homeowners add it on the spot since the truck is already there; others schedule it later. Either way, you’ll know it needs doing.
Ready for an honest look at the air you’re breathing? Call Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning at (737) 727-2314 for a free estimate in New Braunfels. A live person answers, a written price comes before any work, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise backs every job we do.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning, serving New Braunfels as part of the Relay Home Co. family founded in 2005.