HVAC Cleaning in Fort Lauderdale - One Flat Price, Before-and-After Photos

Fast, Reliable HVAC Cleaning Across Fort Lauderdale

HVAC cleaning in Fort Lauderdale costs between $380 and $640 for a complete system in a typical single-family home. That includes the evaporator coil, blower, air handler, and full duct cleaning with HEPA filtration. Most jobs take four to six hours and we’re scheduling about a week out right now.

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We work in Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods every week, from Sailboat Bend to Imperial Point to Rio Vista. Coastal humidity means your system works harder here than almost anywhere in the country. That’s not a sales line. It’s physics. Salt air, constant moisture, and 300+ days of AC runtime create a specific set of problems we know how to solve. Call (737) 727-2314 and a live person answers. Always.

Why Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning Is Fort Lauderdale’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company

Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning is the air duct specialist of the Relay Home Co. family, which was founded in 2005. We operate under The Relay Visibility Guarantee. That means when you book with us, you get a live trackable arrival window, before-and-after photos of your own ducts, and a written price in your hand before a single tool comes off the van. No vague windows. No price that drifts once the tech is inside.

Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed. You’ll know the tech’s name before they ring your doorbell. They run Rotobrush rotary brush systems for agitation, Nikro HEPA vacuums for negative-pressure extraction, and Abatement Technologies containment units when the job calls for it. This is professional-grade equipment, not a truck-mounted shop-vac.

Every job carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the work isn’t right within a full year, we come back and make it right at no charge. That’s the longest satisfaction window in the trade, and it applies to every booking without exception. Omar Haddad leads our team, and he holds every Fort Lauderdale job to that standard.

Fort Lauderdale homeowners choose us because our HVAC Cleaning process is built around showing you the work. You see the inside of your own ducts before and after. You see the coil we cleaned. You get a digital invoice payable from your phone. That’s total transparency, and it’s rare in this trade.

Evaporator Coil Cleaning in Fort Lauderdale

Evaporator Coil Cleaning in Fort Lauderdale is the most important part of any HVAC cleaning, and the one most companies skip entirely. Your evaporator coil sits inside the air handler and gets wet every time the AC runs. In Fort Lauderdale’s coastal humidity, that wet coil grows biofilm fast – a layer of mold, bacteria, and sludge that resists normal drainage. Once the coil is coated, every cubic foot of air passing over it picks up that musty smell and carries it through your supply ducts into every room.

We clean the coil with professional-grade coil cleaner, then rinse and confirm drainage is moving properly. The coil is checked with a camera so we can show you the result. A standard evaporator coil cleaning in Fort Lauderdale runs $120 to $220, and it’s included in our full-system price.

What We Remove From the Coil

The biofilm we pull off Fort Lauderdale coils is the consistency of damp cardboard. It holds water, restricts airflow, and pushes your energy bill up. Clean coils can drop your AC’s cooling load by a measurable amount in a climate this humid.

When It’s Needed Here

If your Fort Lauderdale home hasn’t had the coil cleaned in three years, it’s overdue. Coastal systems need coil service more often than inland homes because of the combination of salt air and constant condensation.

AC Duct Cleaning in Fort Lauderdale

AC Duct Cleaning in Fort Lauderdale involves negative-pressure extraction through every supply and return register in the home. We connect a HEPA-filtered negative-pressure unit to the duct trunk, then feed rotary brushes through each branch line. The loosened debris is pulled directly into the containment unit, not blown back into your living space. That’s the defining difference between real cleaning and what the cheap guys do.

In Fort Lauderdale, duct cleaning without coil cleaning is incomplete. The wet coil re-contaminates ducts within weeks. We won’t sell you one without the other because that would be a disservice to you. A complete AC duct cleaning for a typical three-bedroom Fort Lauderdale home runs $260 to $420. That’s the whole system, one price, no per-vent charges.

Camera Before, Camera After

We photograph the interior of your ducts before we start and after we finish. You’ll see exactly what we removed. No other company in Fort Lauderdale makes that a standard part of the job.

Supply and Return, Both Sides

Some crews only clean the return side because it’s easier. We clean both supply and return in every job. Air moves through both, so both collect the same dust, pet hair, and construction debris. A half-cleaned system is a dirty system.

Trusted Brands We Service in Fort Lauderdale

We service and clean every major brand of air handler, furnace, and heat pump in use across Fort Lauderdale. That includes Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Rheem, Goodman, York, American Standard, Daikin, Bryant, and Mitsubishi Electric. Our techs are trained on each brand’s blower housing and coil configuration, so we know exactly how to open your specific unit without damaging it. We also carry replacement filters from Honeywell and Aprilaire on our Fort Lauderdale trucks, so if your filtration media is spent, we can swap it right there. The heat exchanger, burners, and blower wheel on gas furnaces get cleaned with the same care we’d give our own system. We only use filtration and cleaning products from brands that meet our standards for safe, effective use in occupied homes.

Common HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Fort Lauderdale Homes

• Biofilm on evaporator coils. Fort Lauderdale’s coastal humidity keeps coils wet nearly year-round, and that damp surface breeds biological growth faster than almost any other climate in the U.S. Inland cities see dust on coils, we see fungal growth.
• Clogged condensate drain lines. A p-trap full of sludge backs up and triggers the float switch, which shuts down your AC on the hottest day of the year. Cleaning the coil usually reveals a drain line that needs clearing too.
• Salt-air corrosion on blower motors and housings. Homes within a mile of the beach accumulate salt film inside the air handler. That thin crust holds moisture, accelerates rust, and shortens blower motor life. We see it constantly in Victoria Park and Las Olas Isles.
• Construction dust in new-build ductwork. Fort Lauderdale’s renovation and teardown boom means many homes get a fresh renovation but never clean the drywall dust out of the ducts. That dust circulates for months, coats the coil, and then someone wonders why a “new” system is wheezing.

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We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Lauderdale

Our crews cover HVAC Cleaning in Fort Lauderdale plus the surrounding cities of Plantation, Pompano Beach, Hollywood, and Coconut Creek. Dispatch is coordinated from our Miami (South FL) office, and the same The Relay Visibility Guarantee applies on every job we run in the region. Same written price before work starts, same before-and-after photos, same 365-Day Done Right Promise.

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