Whole-home duct cleaning
Dryer vent cleaning
Camera inspection
Sanitizing & deodorizingWhole-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.
Fast, Reliable Air Duct Cleaning Across Clarkston
Air duct cleaning in Clarkston runs $380 – $620 for a typical apartment unit and $550 – $850 for a single-family brick ranch home. Those are whole-system prices, written down before we touch anything, covering supply and return ducts, the air handler, and the plenum. Our crews work Clarkston weekly and know the housing here: 1960s garden apartments off Montreal Road, brick ranches along North Indian Creek Drive, three-story buildings where the dryer vent stack runs through every floor above you. Call (229) 489-7780 and we’ll give you a firm price for your specific system.
Why Hollis Air Duct Sandy Springs Is Clarkston’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Clarkston’s housing stock makes this work different from what other companies are used to. We’re dealing with original flexible ductwork in buildings that have seen fifty years of Georgia humidity. We’ve been doing this since 2004, long enough to know that a Clarkston apartment off Brockett Road needs a different approach than a house in Stone Mountain. The ducts are older, the access is tighter, and the residue inside is different. Our background-checked, uniformed technicians arrive knowing what they’re walking into, and the price is already in your hand before they start.
We answer the phone with a live person, 24/7. Not a callback queue. That matters in Clarkston, where many residents work shifts at the distribution centers and warehouses off I-285 and need to coordinate service around odd hours. When you call (229) 489-7780, a real person picks up, takes your information, and schedules.
What really separates Hollis from the rest is what we put in writing. Every Clarkston job gets a written price before work begins. Every job carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work fails within a year, we come back and make it right at no charge. That includes a free second visit. We’re part of the Garrison Partners family, run by Roy Castellanos. Some competitors talk about their guarantees. We put ours on paper, on every single job.
Styles & brands we work with
Air Duct Repair in Clarkston
Air Duct Repair in Clarkston means fixing the leaks, separations, and collapsed sections we find in aging flex duct across the city’s apartment complexes and ranch homes. This isn’t optional add-on work. In Clarkston, where original 1960s – 1980s flexible ductwork has sagged and separated over decades, our crews routinely find disconnected ducts dumping conditioned air into attics and crawl spaces. In a humid subtropical climate, that leak pulls muggy outdoor air into the system, feeds mold growth, and drives your electric bill up all summer. Repairing these failures during cleaning is often the difference between clean air that stays clean and clean air that’s compromised within a week.
For apartments and smaller homes in Clarkston, duct repair typically runs $180 – $400 depending on how many joints need re-sealing and how much flex duct needs replacing. For a full brick ranch with a crawl space, expect $350 – $700 if multiple runs have separated. The price is written down before we cut any access, and it doesn’t move at the door.
Reconnecting Separated Flex Duct
Most separated ducts in Clarkston happen at the plenum connection or where two flex sections join with a plastic collar. Over decades, the plastic degrades, the tape fails, and the duct slips off. We re-secure with mastic and proper fasteners, then test the air flow at each register to make sure the run is actually carrying air. This isn’t cosmetic. A disconnected duct cleaning means you paid to clean ductwork that wasn’t even connected to the system.
Sealing Leaks Before They Cost You More
We use duct sealing mastic, not tape, on every repair. Mastic actually bonds to the flex and hardens into a permanent seal. On Clarkston ranches where the attic access is a small scuttle hole, our techs work carefully around the framing and seal every joint we can reach. The goal is simple: all the air you’re paying to condition stays inside the duct, moving to a register, not leaking into the attic.
Ductwork Cleaning in Clarkston
Ductwork Cleaning in Clarkston means removing what has accumulated inside the supply and return lines over years of constant AC use, frequent home cooking, and high foot traffic. The humid subtropical climate here means the AC runs hard from May through September. That means more air moving through the ducts, more dust depositing on the duct walls, and more moisture to bind it into a sticky film. In Clarkston apartments especially, we find ducts packed with a mix of cooking oils, dust, and sometimes incense residue that standard vacuum-only cleaning won’t touch.
For a Clarkston apartment, full ductwork cleaning typically runs $380 – $520. For a single-family ranch, expect $550 – $850 depending on system size and access. That’s source removal with negative pressure and HEPA filtration, not a shop vac stuck in a register. Every job includes camera inspection afterward so you can see what we removed.
Full System Cleaning for Apartments and Ranches
We clean everything between the return grille and the supply register: the return drop, the air handler cabinet, the blower wheel, the supply plenum, and every duct run. In Clarkston’s garden apartments, we often find the blower wheel caked with a sticky tar-like film from years of cooking aerosols pulled through the return. Cleaning the ducts without cleaning the blower means re-contaminating the entire system within weeks. We do it right the first time.
Cooking Residue and High-Static Systems
Clarkston’s food culture is one of the best things about this city. It also means what’s inside your ducts is different from what’s inside ducts in Roswell or Smyrna. Frequent home-cooked meals send cooking oils into the air. Those oils settle in the ductwork, then dust sticks to the oil. Over years, the buildup narrows the duct opening and raises static pressure, which makes your blower work harder and wear faster. Our agitation tools and negative pressure machines remove this film, and we often see immediate improvement in air flow after cleaning.
Trusted Brands We Service in Clarkston
We run professional-grade equipment, not hardware-store gear. Our rotary brush systems come from Rotobrush, our negative-air machines from Nikro, and we use Abatement Technologies HEPA filtration to capture what we remove. For Clarkston homeowners who want ongoing air quality improvement, we also install and service filtration products from Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Guardsman. We keep common parts and filters stocked for Clarkston jobs, which means faster turnaround on the systems we see most often here.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Clarkston Homes
- Separated flex duct dumping air into attics and crawl spaces. Clarkston’s original 1960s – 1980s ductwork was never designed to last fifty years. The plastic collars and tape fail, the ducts sag, and conditioned air leaks into spaces no one ever sees. We camera-inspect every cleaned system to find these failures.
- Dryer vent stacks clogged across multiple apartment floors. In Clarkston’s garden apartments, a third-floor unit’s dryer vent often runs through the walls and roof above two other units. If every unit isn’t cleaned, the shared pathway backs up. We coordinate with property managers to schedule stacked units back-to-back.
- Heavy cooking oil residue coating duct interiors. Home-cooked meals are a way of life in Clarkston, and airborne cooking oils settle into the ducts. This residue bonds with dust and Georgia humidity to form a sticky film that standard cleaning can’t remove. Our approach uses agitation and negative pressure to strip it out.
- Mold and mildew from constant humidity. Georgia summers mean high indoor humidity, especially in older apartments with original AC systems. Condensation forms inside ducts and on cooling coils, and that feeds mold. We see this constantly in Clarkston’s low-rise buildings, and source removal is the only real fix.
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AfterPricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Clarkston, GA
Whole-system air duct cleaning in Clarkston runs $380 – $620 for a typical one to two-bedroom apartment and $550 – $850 for a single-family ranch home. If you need duct repair, add $180 – $400 for minor reconnections and sealing; a crawl space with multiple separated runs runs $350 – $700 more. Dryer vent cleaning is $129 – $249 when bundled with duct cleaning. The factors that move the price: system size, number of return drops, access difficulty, and how much residue has built up over the years. One flat price per system, written down before work starts. That’s the Garrison Standard. Call (229) 489-7780 for a free estimate on your specific system.
We Also Serve Cities Near Clarkston
Our crews handle Air Duct Cleaning in Clarkston and regularly serve nearby communities including Stone Mountain, Smyrna, Roswell, and Holly Springs. If you’re in one of those cities, the same written pricing and 365-Day Done Right Promise apply. Air Duct Cleaning from a crew that shows up when it says and prices before it touches anything.
Serving Clarkston, GA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Clarkston 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 Clarkston
Yes. If you rent in Clarkston, you need written permission from your landlord or property manager before any duct cleaning or dryer vent work. The duct system is part of the building, not your unit. We work regularly with Clarkston property managers, and we’re happy to provide our written quote and insurance information directly to the management office to make the approval process faster. Call (229) 489-7780 and we’ll help get the paperwork started.
That musty smell in a 1970s Clarkston ranch usually means mold or mildew inside the ductwork itself, not a dirty filter. The original flex ducts in these homes have been through fifty years of Georgia humidity. Condensation forms inside the ducts during summer, dust and organic matter stick to the damp surfaces, and mold grows. The filter can’t remove what’s already established downstream. Source removal cleaning with HEPA filtration removes the growth and the organic material feeding it, which is the only real fix. Call (229) 489-7780 for a free estimate.
Yes, but it requires high-reach access equipment and coordination with the property manager. Third-floor dryer terminations in Clarkston’s garden apartment buildings are often 30 to 40 feet up, which is beyond what a standard ladder job handles safely. We bring the right equipment and we schedule adjacent units back-to-back when possible, because cleaning one unit’s section of a shared stack without the others leaves a partially clogged pathway. Call (229) 489-7780 and we’ll coordinate with management.
We use a combination of mechanical agitation and negative pressure with HEPA filtration to remove cooking oil residue from duct interiors. Cooking oils bind with dust and humidity to form a sticky film that a simple vacuum can’t remove. Our rotary brush systems from Rotobrush break the film loose from the duct walls while the negative-pressure machine from Nikro pulls the debris out through HEPA filtration, so nothing re-enters your living space. This is the exact situation we see most often in Clarkston apartments. Call (229) 489-7780 for a firm price.
Yes. We follow NADCA source removal standards on every job, including smaller Clarkston homes with original flex duct. We protect flex duct by using gentle agitation and controlled negative pressure rather than tearing through it. We also camera-inspect every cleaned system to confirm the ducts are actually clean and intact, because flex duct that’s damaged during cleaning creates more problems than it solves. Call (229) 489-7780 and ask about our written reporting.
Contact Hollis Air Duct Sandy Springs for Clarkston Duct Cleaning
We know Clarkston’s buildings, we know what’s inside the ducts, and we put everything in writing before we start. One price for the whole system. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers every job. If you’re in Clarkston and your vents haven’t been cleaned in years, or you smell mildew, or your dryer takes two hours to dry a load, call (229) 489-7780. A live person answers, day or night. We’ll give you a firm quote and a time we’ll actually show up.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Sandy Springs, serving Clarkston through the Garrison Partners family of independent local businesses.