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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HVAC cleaning in Richland Hills typically runs $350 – $650 for a full system on a standard ranch home, and most jobs are completed in 2 – 4 hours. That price covers the supply and return ducts, the blower compartment, and the evaporator coil as one flat rate agreed before we touch a single vent. If you’re off Rufe Snow Drive or near the Richland Hills public library and your registers are blowing dust or the house smells musty when the AC kicks on, call us at (737) 727-2314 and we’ll give you a straight number.
We know this town’s housing stock. Most homes here were built between the 1950s and 1970s, and a lot of them still run original ductwork that’s been collecting dust, pet hair, and construction debris for decades. Our team is led by Omar Haddad, and every job is backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not right within a year, we come back and fix it at no charge.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning Is Richland Hills’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company
Richland Hills homeowners call us because we hand them a written price before any work starts, and that number does not change at the door. We clean ducts by the system, not by the vent. On a 1960s ranch with 22 registers, per-vent pricing from other companies turns a $300 quote into an $800 invoice. We don’t play that game. One flat price per system, in writing, before we start.
We also show you the work. Every job includes before-and-after photographs of your own ducts, so you’re not taking anyone’s word for what happened inside your walls. Our technicians arrive in uniform, background-checked, and you’ll know their name before they ring the bell. That’s The Relay Standard, and it’s how every booking works.
Omar Haddad leads a crew that works Richland Hills regularly, from the neighborhoods near Baker Boulevard up to the streets around Richland Park. We’re part of the Relay Home Co. family, founded 2005, so there’s real infrastructure behind the name, not a guy in a rented van.
AC Duct Cleaning in Richland Hills
AC Duct Cleaning in Richland Hills means clearing the supply and return lines that carry conditioned air from your air handler to every room, usually on homes running their AC hard from May through September with the North Texas humidity adding moisture to whatever’s already built up inside the runs. We run a Rotobrush rotary brush system through the ducts, then pull the loosened debris out with a Nikro HEPA vacuum running negative-pressure extraction. That means the dust and hair go straight into the vacuum at the truck, not back into your living room. A full AC duct cleaning on a typical Richland Hills ranch runs $350 – $500.
Evaporator Coil Cleaning
The evaporator coil sits inside the air handler and gets coated with a film of dust and moisture that restricts airflow and drives your electric bill up. We remove the access panel, clean the coil, and apply a coil treatment so it sheds future buildup instead of trapping it.
Blower Cleaning
The blower wheel pulls air through the system, and on homes with pets or carpet, it accumulates a layer of matted dust that reduces how much air actually reaches your rooms. We pull the blower assembly, clean the wheel and housing, and put it back with the airflow restored.
Furnace Cleaning in Richland Hills
Furnace Cleaning in Richland Hills matters because your furnace shares ductwork with your AC, and a dusty blower compartment or heat exchanger means that dust gets baked and blown through the house during the winter months. We clean the blower motor, the heat exchanger surfaces, and the interior of the furnace cabinet, then vacuum everything out with HEPA filtration. A furnace cleaning combined with the duct work runs $425 – $650 depending on furnace age and how much buildup has accumulated in the cabinet.
Heat Exchanger Cleaning
Dust and soot on the heat exchanger reduce how efficiently the furnace transfers heat, and over time that buildup can restrict airflow enough to trip the limit switch. We brush and vacuum the exchanger surfaces carefully, which is not something we’d recommend doing yourself on a gas furnace.
Air Handler Cleaning
The air handler houses the blower, coil, and filter, and it’s the heart of the system. On older Richland Hills homes, we often find the blower compartment packed with decades of fine dust that never made it past the filter. We clean the interior surfaces and verify that air is moving across the coil the way it should.
Trusted Brands We Service in Richland Hills
We don’t push brands you don’t already have. Our HVAC Cleaning team services whatever system is in your Richland Hills home: Trane, Carrier, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, American Standard, and the builder-grade brands common in mid-century construction. We also stock replacement filtration products from Aprilaire, Honeywell, and Guardsman, so if your media cabinet needs a fresh filter after we clean, we can handle it on the spot. If you’ve got a whole-home Aprilaire cabinet or a Guardsman media filter, we’ll check it and give you a straight answer on whether it needs replacing or has life left.
Common HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Richland Hills Homes
- Forty-year-old galvanized ducts with interior buildup. Homes built in the 1960s and 1970s often still have original rigid galvanized runs that have never been cleaned. The metal itself is usually fine; the problem is the half-inch of caked dust lining the walls that reduces airflow to the back bedrooms.
- Collapsed or torn flex runs from the original install. When builders switched to flexible duct in the 1970s and 1980s, a lot of it was undersized or installed with tight bends. After forty years, those runs disconnect or collapse, and cleaning alone won’t fix that. We’ll tell you if replacement is the real fix.
- Dust redistributed through the house by low-bid cleaners. Some companies run an agitation brush without proper negative pressure, so the debris gets knocked loose and blown back through the registers into your home. We run a Nikro HEPA vacuum on every job, so the debris ends up in the truck, not on your couch.
- Pet hair and construction debris behind the registers. On the slab-foundation ranch homes common across Richland Hills, the return ducts frequently pull in dust from under baseboards and around door frames. We find pet hair and drywall dust packed inside return cavities, which is exactly why we photograph every register before and after cleaning.
Pricing for HVAC Cleaning in Richland Hills, TX
A full HVAC cleaning on a typical Richland Hills home runs $350 – $650 as one flat price per system. That includes AC duct cleaning, furnace cleaning, blower cleaning, and evaporator coil cleaning as one job, not four line items. Smaller homes under 1,200 square feet with a single system are usually at the bottom of that range. Larger two-story properties or homes with multiple systems land at the top. We also offer whole-home humidifier cleaning and Guardsman filter replacement as add-ons. Your written price is in your hand before we open a single tool bag, and it does not change. Call (737) 727-2314 for a free estimate and a real number, not a range that shifts when the van shows up.
We Also Serve Cities Near Richland Hills
If you’re in one of the surrounding DFW communities, we can schedule a visit for your home or rental property. Our crews serve HVAC Cleaning in Richland Hills and the nearby metros of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth. You’ll get the same flat-price system, the same before-and-after photos, and the same written guarantee.
Serving Richland Hills, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Richland Hills 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 Richland Hills
Most Richland Hills homes are fine with a professional cleaning every 5 to 7 years. Homes with multiple pets, recent construction, or smokers should lean toward the shorter end. If no one in the house has allergies, you haven’t renovated lately, and your registers don’t show visible dust buildup, you probably don’t need us out this year. Call (737) 727-2314 and we’ll walk you through whether it’s actually worth a visit.
We charge one flat price per system, never per vent. A ranch home off Baker Boulevard with 20 registers is the same price as a smaller home with 12, because the work is in the duct runs and the air handler, not in counting registers. Per-vent pricing is how duct cleaning companies turn a $99 teaser into a $700 bill.
Yes. Our standard HVAC cleaning includes the furnace cabinet, blower motor, heat exchanger, and the full duct system in one visit. It’s all part of the flat per-system price, so there’s no separate furnace cleaning fee or second trip charge. Call (737) 727-2314 and we’ll tell you exactly what’s included in the written price.
Most 1960s and 1970s galvanized ductwork is structurally fine and just needs source removal. Flex ducts from the same era are different. If a camera inspection shows collapsed or disconnected runs, we’ll tell you plainly and give you a written replacement price. We won’t try to sell you a replacement when cleaning is all that’s needed, and we won’t clean over a run that’s already failed.
Scheduling is based on the route our DFW crews run each week, so we may not be able to give you an exact same-day slot in Richland Hills. A live person answers the phone 24/7, and when you book, you get a live trackable arrival window through The Relay Standard, so you’re not waiting on a four-hour guess. Call (737) 727-2314 and we’ll give you the next available window and a written price before we schedule anything.
One Local Insight About Richland Hills Ductwork
Richland Hills is a small, fully built-out suburb where the housing stock is dominated by mid-century ranch homes and slab-foundation houses built between the 1950s and 1970s, many of which still have original galvanized or early flexible duct runs. That vintage of ductwork, combined with North Texas humidity swings, is what determines whether a job really needs our truck or just a filter and a conversation. We’d rather talk you out of a cleaning you don’t need than take your money for one. If the ducts are clean and the airflow is good, we’ll say so.
One of our techs was out on a job near the Richland Hills public library, off Baker Boulevard, where the homeowner had replaced the air handler but never touched the forty-year-old supply and return ducts feeding the back bedrooms. Using a camera inspection and agitation tools, we found the flex runs packed with construction dust and pet hair. Under negative pressure with HEPA filtration, we pulled the debris out through a NADCA-recommended source removal process, cleaned the blower motor compartment, and the homeowner ran the system that evening with noticeably better airflow to those rooms. We took before-and-after photographs of their own ducts and handed them over with a flat price we had agreed before we ever started.
That’s the standard. Written price first, real photographs after, and a straight answer every time. If you want your Richland Hills home’s HVAC system cleaned the honest way, call Omar Haddad’s team at (737) 727-2314 today.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning, serving Richland Hills and the surrounding DFW metro.