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Kansas City runs on basements. A lot of the housing stock here was built before 1980, and in those homes the return side is often panned floor joists or a stud cavity rather than sealed sheet metal. That matters for duct cleaning. An unsealed cavity pulls basement dust, soil air, and water-heater and laundry lint straight into the air handler, so the debris we find isn't only what came in through the windows. Freeze-thaw cycling and clay soil shift foundations over the years, which breaks duct joints and opens sheet metal seams, and those gaps keep feeding the system no matter how clean the trunk lines are. We look at the return path first on almost every job in this metro, because cleaning a system that's drawing from a dirty cavity buys you less time than it should.

The long hot-humid cooling season runs blowers for months straight, pulling dust, dander and pollen through the system. High summer dew points mean cold supply ducts in unconditioned basements and attics sweat, so settled dust turns to a mud film and insulation facing stays damp. Winter reverses it with dry, dusty recirculation. On top of that, the metro sits in a ragweed-heavy river valley with farm ground around it, so late-August through first frost is heavy pollen loading, and spring storm season pushes field and construction dust indoors. Our crew shows up with a truck-mounted vacuum, sets negative pressure on the system, seals every register and return face, and works the lines with rotary brushes and air whips so the debris has one place to go. We service Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem and American Standard equipment, and we clean the blower compartment and evaporator coil when they're part of the problem. If the return cavities are leaking, duct sealing is usually the better money. If airflow is the complaint and the filter is loaded, sometimes it's just filter replacement.

Most metro homes do fine on a three to five year interval. Pets, basement return cavities, finished-basement remodels or allergy sufferers push that to two or three. Remodeling dust, a flood or sump failure, or rodent intrusion means clean it now, not on schedule. If you call us and your ducts are clean, we'll tell you that and show you the inside of the trunk line so you can see it yourself. As for cost, the things that move it on a duct cleaning are the number of supply and return drops, whether the returns are open joist cavities that have to be handled differently than hard pipe, how far the truck has to reach, and whether the coil and blower are fouled enough to need separate attention. A two-system house with a finished basement and a dozen extra drops is a longer day than a single-system ranch.