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 Tiburon
Air duct cleaning in Tiburon typically costs $450 – $850 for a full residential system, and the work takes roughly 4 – 6 hours from setup to final before-and-after photos. We know Tiburon homes present a specific challenge: many mid-century hillside houses sit on pier-and-beam foundations with long horizontal duct runs buried in crawlspaces, not tidy attic trunk lines. That changes how the job gets done. If your registers have been blowing dust across the living room or some bedrooms never quite reach the temperature of others, call (737) 727-2314 and we’ll walk you through what’s actually happening in your ducts.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning Is Tiburon’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We’re part of the Relay Home Co. family, founded 2005, and our Tiburon work is held to The Relay Visibility Guarantee. That means before our techs touch a single register, you get a written price for the whole system. Not per vent. Not with a silent asterisk about crawlspace access. One price, on paper, before work starts. Omar Haddad leads our Northern California operations and he’s the one who set the standard that a Tiburon homeowner should know the technician’s name before they open the door.
Our techs arrive in uniform, background-checked, with professional equipment that actually does the job: Nikro HEPA filtration units for negative-pressure extraction, Rotobrush rotary brush systems for agitation inside the ducts, and Abatement Technologies containment when the job calls for it. We work on homes along Tiburon Boulevard, up in the Paradise Drive hills, and down around Belvedere Lagoon. We know the difference between a duct system you can walk to and one you have to belly-crawl to.
Air Duct Cleaning Services in Tiburon
Air Duct Cleaning Services in Tiburon start with a camera inspection, not a quote. We send a scope down the supply and return runs so you can see what’s actually in there before anyone starts cleaning. If your ducts are relatively clean and clear, we’ll tell you that too. We don’t manufacture work. For most Tiburon homes, the full process runs $450 – $850 depending on system size, number of returns, and whether we’re working through a crawl hatch or a standing attic.
Full System Cleaning
We clean the entire path air takes through your home: supply ducts, return ducts, plenums, and the air handler cabinet. In a Tiburon hillside home, that often means removing a crawlspace access panel and working through the subfloor, which is exactly why our written quote includes the access work from the start. No change orders because the tech had to crouch.
Video Inspection
Before we agitate anything, we scope every run with a camera. In a 1962 hillside home near Tiburon Boulevard, we found a sunroom addition that had spliced two supply ducts into one undersized return. The camera showed restricted airflow before we ever turned on a vacuum. After cleaning and correcting the plenum, the back bedrooms finally held temperature.
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.
HVAC Duct Cleaning in Tiburon
HVAC Duct Cleaning in Tiburon means cleaning the ducts, the air handler, the evaporator coil, and the blower assembly as one connected system. Most quotes you’ll see in Tiburon only cover the ductwork itself. That leaves the blower cabinet full of dust, and that dust gets pulled right back into the ducts within weeks. Our $450 – $850 range for a residential system includes the air handler, because a clean duct run attached to a dirty blower isn’t really clean.
Supply and Return Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts push conditioned air into your rooms; return ducts pull room air back to the furnace or air handler. Both need attention, but in older Tiburon homes the returns are often woefully undersized and rarely cleaned by prior owners. We see return runs packed with decades of dust and construction debris, especially in houses built on crawlspaces where the return was an afterthought.
Blower Assembly and Coil Cleaning
A coated blower wheel moves less air, causes your system to run longer, and pushes years of accumulated debris past the filter. We remove the blower housing, clean the wheel and assembly, and get airflow back to what the system was designed to deliver. This isn’t a bolt-on line item in Tiburon; it’s part of the flat system price.
Trusted Brands We Service in Tiburon
The equipment in Tiburon homes runs the full range: older Carrier and Trane splits, newer variable-speed systems, and a fair share of Honeywell and Aprilaire filtration units. We service all of them, and we stock common replacement filters and media for these brands so we’re not scheduling a return visit just to swap a part. If your system uses a Honeywell F100 or an Aprilaire 213, we carry those. It keeps a Tiburon job moving and keeps the price honest.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Tiburon Homes
- Construction dust and drywall fines in the supply runs. Tiburon has seen constant remodeling activity for decades. Many homes we clean have never had their supply ducts opened since the last renovation, and that dust just recirculates through the living spaces.
- Undersized or disconnected returns on additions. Older hillside homes often received sunrooms or extra bedrooms without proper return air paths, starving back rooms of airflow. Camera inspection shows this clearly before cleaning starts.
- Crawlspace debris drawn into subfloor plenums. Pier-and-beam foundations leave return plenums exposed to whatever drifts under the house: dry soil, rodent activity, old insulation. Negative-pressure extraction is essential here; compressed air alone just blows that debris into the supply side.
- Flat-rate quotes that quietly exclude crawlspace work. This is the per-vent trap in the Tiburon hills. The access difficulty is where the extra charges appear. Our written price includes crawlspace access, subfloor work, and the air handler from the start.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Tiburon, CA
A full residential air duct cleaning in Tiburon runs $450 – $850, and the price you’re quoted is the price you pay. That includes supply and return duct cleaning, air handler and blower cleaning, camera inspection before and after, and before-and-after photos of your own ducts. Larger homes with multiple systems, long subfloor runs, or extensive contamination can push higher, and we’ll tell you that on the phone before anyone drives out. The real question isn’t the total, it’s what the total covers. Ours covers the system. Call (737) 727-2314 for a free estimate with a written price before any work begins.
We Also Serve Cities Near Tiburon
Our crews work throughout the Bay Area, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco. If you’re outside Tiburon proper, chances are we’re already working nearby. For more on what we do across the region, see our Air Duct Cleaning service page, or if you’re local, our Air Duct Cleaning in Tiburon page covers this specific area in detail.
Serving Tiburon, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Tiburon 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 Tiburon
We access them the way the home was built to be accessed: through existing crawlspace hatches and subfloor plenum openings, not by cutting new holes in your floors. Many Tiburon hillside homes have pier-and-beam foundations, so our techs work from beneath the house, using containment to keep any disturbed dust from reaching living areas. The access work is included in the written price before we start.
Per system, always. One flat price covers the entire home’s ductwork, plenums, air handler, and blower, with no per-vent math. Charging per vent is how the per-vent trap quietly adds hundreds of dollars to a Tiburon hillside job; we don’t do it. Call (737) 727-2314 for a free estimate.
Every 3 – 5 years for most homes, and more often if you’ve recently remodeled, run the heat constantly during Marine-layer months, or have pets that shed heavily. Some Tiburon homes go 10 years without needing much at all. If we scope your ducts and they’re clean, we’ll say so rather than sell you a cleaning you don’t need.
Yes. Every booking under The Relay Visibility Guarantee includes before-and-after camera documentation of your own ductwork. You’ll see exactly what was in there and exactly what it looks like when we’re done. That’s the point of the whole Relay Standard: you can verify the work without taking our word for it.
No, and we won’t pretend to. A proper full-system cleaning in a Tiburon hillside home takes 4 – 6 hours on location, with scheduling coordinated from our San Francisco Bay Area office. We’ll give you a live arrival window you can track, and a live person answers calls 24/7. Call (737) 727-2314 to schedule.
If your Tiburon home is blowing dust, your registers look dirty, or your system just seems to be working harder than it should, call (737) 727-2314. Omar Haddad and our team will give you a straight answer and a written price before a single duct is touched.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning, serving Tiburon since 2005.