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 Pacific Palisades
Air duct cleaning in Pacific Palisades is a different job than it is in the flats. Most of the country schedules duct work around spring pollen, but up here in the canyon and bluff neighborhoods, the real season runs October through January. That’s when Santa Ana winds push fine ash and smoke backward through return grilles into attic flex duct, and it never reaches the filter. We know what that looks like, we know where it hides, and we drive up into the hills regularly to fix it. If your registers are dusted with gray film or your house still smells like the last brush fire, call (855) 473-3133. We answer 24/7. Fast dispatch from 7am to 7pm, Sunday through Friday.
Why Pacific Palisades Homeowners Call Duct Cleaning Hawthorne for Air Duct Cleaning
We’re led by Teddy Soto, and the team at Duct Cleaning Hawthorne has been doing air duct cleaning since 2014. Teddy spent twenty years in the trade before starting the company, working residential and restoration jobs across the Los Angeles basin. What that means for you in Pacific Palisades is a crew that has seen every duct configuration these hills can throw at a job: long attic runs in mid-century ranchers, multi-zone systems in Spanish villas, and flex duct in contemporary rebuilds on hillside lots.
We work with professional-grade extraction and cleaning systems from Rotobrush and Nikro, the same equipment brands used by restoration and remediation contractors, not consumer-grade shop vacs. When we drive up to a home in Pacific Palisades, we bring negative pressure and HEPA filtration because the job demands it. Ash doesn’t come out with a brush and a prayer.
Response time to Pacific Palisades is straightforward: we schedule the drive up the coast or over the hill, and our dispatch window runs 7am to 7pm Sunday through Friday. The estimate is free, and the written estimate sets the price before any work starts.
Styles & brands we work with
- Whole-home duct cleaning
- Dryer vent cleaning
- Camera inspection
- Sanitizing & deodorizing
Ductwork Cleaning in Pacific Palisades
Ductwork cleaning in Pacific Palisades has to account for what this specific housing stock throws at us. The older 1950s through 1970s homes up here often still run original rigid metal ductwork with leaky joints, and those joints let canyon marine-layer damp into the system. That’s a mold setup. Newer builds use flex duct that catches ash and debris more readily. Neither one gets clean by wiping the registers.
Full System Cleaning
We clean the full system: supply ducts, return ducts, the air handler, and the connections between them. On a hillside home with multi-zone HVAC, that means running agitation tools through every branch and then pulling negative pressure at the air handler so debris actually leaves the system instead of getting pushed around inside it.
Camera Inspection
After the cleaning, we run a video inspection through the long attic runs and the returns. That’s how you know the ash at the far end of a flex duct is actually gone, not just the stuff you can see from the register. A typical full ductwork cleaning on a Pacific Palisades home runs $450 to $1,000 depending on system size and zoning.
Air Duct Inspection in Pacific Palisades
An air duct inspection in Pacific Palisades is often what finds the problem before the cleaning even starts. Fine ash pulled backward through return grilles after a Santa Ana event settles in attic flex duct and never reaches the filter. You can’t see it without a camera. We run one through the supply and return lines, the air handler, and the connections, and we show you what’s in there before we touch anything. A standalone inspection typically runs $150 to $300 in this area.
Post-Fire Ash Inspection
If your house sat downwind of the 2025 Palisades Fire or any smaller brush fire since, an inspection tells you whether smoke particles worked their way into the system. We look for ash loading in the return side, residue on the blower motor, and the condition of flex duct connections up in the attic.
Pre-Season Baseline
Some homeowners get an inspection in early October, before the Santa Anas really kick in, so they have a baseline. Then if ash comes in later, they know what changed. That’s a smart way to use the service in this canyon environment.
Trusted Brands We Service in Pacific Palisades
We service and clean systems built around Honeywell and Aprilaire air-quality components, which matters more up here than it does elsewhere. These houses run multi-zone setups, and a Honeywell zone panel or Aprilaire filtration cabinet needs to be handled correctly during a cleaning. We also stock installation capability for these brands, so if your system needs a filter upgrade or humidity control while we’re in there, it’s one trip. For contamination-sensitive jobs where mold or heavy allergen loading is a concern, we run Abatement Technologies equipment. We carry parts for the common configurations we see in Pacific Palisades homes, which keeps turnaround fast when something needs replacing.
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AfterCommon Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Pacific Palisades Homes
- Ash pulled backward through return grilles. Santa Ana winds create negative pressure zones around hillside homes, and fine ash gets drawn backward into the return side of the system. It settles in attic flex duct and never reaches the filter, so the house keeps recirculating it for months.
- Leaky joints in original rigid metal ductwork. Homes built in the 1950s through 1970s often still have their original duct runs, and the joints were sealed with material that degrades. Canyon damp seeps in, and that’s where mold gets a foothold.
- Skips on outbuilding and multi-zone systems. A detached garage, shop, or ADU on a hillside lot has its own duct runs, and those get skipped by a lot of companies. If only the main house gets source removal and negative pressure, the outbuilding keeps loading up and blowing into whatever you do in there.
- Ash loading concentrated in one or two zones. Large contemporary rebuilds run multiple zones, and the zone farthest up the hill collects the worst of it. We find that pattern constantly. A full system cleaning has to hit every zone, not just the one with the thermostat.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Pacific Palisades, CA
A full system cleaning in Pacific Palisades typically runs $450 to $1,000 for a single main house with one or two HVAC units. A hillside home with three or more zones, long attic runs, or an outbuilding system usually falls between $800 and $1,800. Air duct inspection runs $150 to $300 when booked alone. What moves the price is how many zones, how long the duct runs are, how much access there is in the attic or crawlspace, and whether the original metal ductwork needs joint resealing. The estimate is free, and the written estimate sets the price before we start. Call (855) 473-3133 for an exact quote.
We Also Serve Cities Near Pacific Palisades
Our air duct cleaning crews work throughout the westside and the surrounding hills. We regularly serve Brentwood, Venice, Culver City, and Hollywood Hills. If you’re in any of those areas, the same equipment and the same process apply.
Serving Pacific Palisades, CA – Our Local Coverage Area
We serve Pacific Palisades and nearby communities. Use the map below to see the area we cover. If you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Air Duct Cleaning in Pacific Palisades
In this canyon wildland-urban interface, the realistic interval is every 2 to 3 years, and you should inspect after any significant Santa Ana event or nearby brush fire. The ash loading pattern here doesn’t follow the national spring pollen schedule. Call (855) 473-3133 and we’ll help you figure out the right timing for your house.
It removes the particles carrying the smell, which is most of it. Smoke odor after a brush fire usually comes from ash and soot that settled in the ducts and on the blower motor. Once that material is extracted and the system is clear, the smell drops significantly. If the smell persists after a full cleaning, the source is likely in the insulation or soft surfaces, not the ducts.
Yes. It changes how long the cleaning takes and how thorough the process needs to be. Long flex duct runs collect more debris per foot, and every zone has to be accessed and cleaned separately. We run camera inspection through each zone after the extraction so nothing gets skipped. Expect a multi-zone hillside home to cost more than a single-zone ranchette in the flats.
Yes. We clean every duct system on the property, not just the main house. Detached shops, ADUs, and garages with their own HVAC all get source removal and negative pressure. A lot of Pacific Palisades properties have a workshop that runs as dusty as anything in the canyon, and if we skip it, that dust finds its way back into the main house through whatever connects the two.
Homes off paved canyon spurs sit next to open land and dirt roads that generate fine dust year-round. That dust loads the return side of the system faster than a home in the flats, especially during the dry months. If your driveway is unpaved or your lot backs up to open chaparral, plan on the shorter end of the 2-to-3-year interval, and ask us to check the returns during inspection.
If your ducts haven’t been looked at since the last fire season, or you’re still smelling what blew through in October, call us. We’ll set up a camera inspection, show you what’s actually in your system, and give you a written estimate that covers the full job. Call (855) 473-3133. We answer 24/7. Fast dispatch from 7am to 7pm, Sunday through Friday.
Written by Teddy Soto, Owner at Duct Cleaning Hawthorne, serving Pacific Palisades since 2014.