About Us

Westlake Village homes fall into a few clear groups, and the duct work follows the group. The 1950s-60s stock around the older parts of the Conejo Valley and western San Fernando Valley still runs original or re-wrapped sheet metal, which cleans well but often hides loose wrap and open seams at the plenum. The 1970s-90s tracts are the bulk of what we see, and most of that first-generation flex duct is past its service life: inner liner sagging, outer jacket torn where someone stepped on it, bends collapsed to half diameter. The 2000s builds have better-sealed flex and media filter cabinets, so they hold up, but a neglected filter cabinet in those homes loads the supply runs fast. Nearly all of it is in the attic. Slab foundations dominate here, so crawlspace duct systems are rare outside older Ventura and Fillmore housing.

The common calls are seasonal and predictable. Chaparral and oak pollen in spring, Santa Ana dust and fine grit in fall, agricultural dust and soil blowing off the Oxnard Plain row-crop fields all year, and settled ash in the burn-adjacent foothills near Agoura Hills and Topanga. Closer to the coast, salt aerosol and marine humidity change what sits in the duct and how it clings. Cooling season carries the load March through October, and in Simi Valley and Moorpark often into November, so systems move a lot of air. Heating is the opposite. Furnaces run in short bursts over a mild winter, and dust and rodent debris sit undisturbed in supply runs for months until the first cold night pushes it into the house. That first-cold-night smell is one of our most frequent calls. We arrive with a truck-mounted vacuum, pull negative pressure on the system, seal every register, then work the runs with rotary brushes and air whips so debris moves toward the collection point instead of into your living room. We work on Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem and American Standard equipment, and we handle sheet metal, flex, and the mixed systems that show up when a house has been added onto twice.

We also tell people when their ducts are fine. A three-year-old home with a media cabinet and a filter that gets changed is usually not a cleaning job, and we will say so and leave. Sometimes the problem sits upstream or downstream of the duct: a filter that is the wrong size or long overdue, which is air filter replacement, or an evaporator coil packed with pollen that is choking airflow, which is coil cleaning. Attic flex with blown-out connections pulls hot attic air and insulation fiber into the system, and that calls for duct sealing, not just a vacuum. On cost, what actually moves the number on a duct cleaning here is the number of supply runs and returns, how much of the run is accessible without cutting, whether the duct is sheet metal or degraded flex that has to be handled carefully, and whether there is rodent contamination that changes the scope. We look at the attic first and tell you which of those apply to your house.