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 HVAC Cleaning Across Hornsby Bend
HVAC cleaning in Hornsby Bend usually costs between $425 and $685 for a full system, coil cleaning included, and most jobs finish in a single day. We work on a lot of homes off FM 969, along Blue Goose Road, and through the older pockets near the Colorado River where manufactured homes and 1970s site-built houses still run original flex duct. If your vents blow weak or the house stays dusty no matter how often you sweep, the problem is rarely the AC unit itself. It’s what’s packed inside the ducts. Call Cardinal Air Duct Austin at (940) 283-6595 and we’ll schedule a camera inspection, not just a quote.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Austin Is Hornsby Bend’s Preferred HVAC Cleaning Company
We’ve cleaned enough systems in Hornsby Bend to know the patterns here before we even roll up the driveway. Homes built between 1970 and 1990, manufactured units with pier-and-beam skirting, original flex duct sagging under decades of Central Texas humidity. Our techs arrive knowing what to look for: failed plenum seals at the air handler, crushed runs under additions, disconnect joints pulling attic air straight into your living room. That’s the difference between a shop-vac job and source removal with a Rotobrush system and Nikro HEPA extraction.
Omar Haddad leads the crew that handles Hornsby Bend calls. He’s the one who reviews camera footage from every job and signs off before we call the work done. You’ll know your tech’s name before they arrive, they’ll be in uniform, and they’ll hand you a written price before a single tool comes off the truck. That’s The Relay Standard, and it applies to every booking to Hornsby Bend without exception.
Our HVAC Cleaning team knows this area well because Hornsby Bend has its own set of problems. Fine dust from the nearby biosolids facility and surrounding farmland gets into ducts through gaps and joints that never sealed right in the first place. Austin subdivisions 20 minutes west don’t see this mixture. We do, regularly. And we price the work honestly, which is why homeowners here keep our number.
Styles & brands we work with
Furnace Cleaning in Hornsby Bend
Furnace cleaning in Hornsby Bend addresses the heating side of your system: heat exchanger, blower assembly, and the interior of the furnace cabinet. Even in Central Texas, where winters stay mild, furnaces accumulate a surprising amount of dust during the months they sit idle. That dust bakes onto the heat exchanger the first cold snap you fire it up, and suddenly the whole house smells like burnt lint. In older Hornsby Bend homes, that’s often compounded by whatever’s blown in from outside. A standard furnace cleaning here runs $150 to $250 as part of a full system job, or $180 to $300 as a standalone visit depending on furnace size and accessibility.
Heat exchanger and blower service
We pull the blower wheel, clean each blade, and inspect the heat exchanger for cracks or burn patterns. In manufactured homes especially, blower wheels collect a heavy layer of gray, powdery dust that reduces airflow and strains the motor. Cleaning it restores proper static pressure, which means your furnace doesn’t work harder than it should.
Combustion check while we’re in there
Since we’re already at the furnace, we check the burners and flame sensor. It’s not a formal safety inspection, but it catches the obvious stuff: soot buildup, misaligned burners, a sensor that needs cleaning. Gas appliances deserve a careful eye, and our two decades of experience means we know what a healthy flame looks like.
AC Vent Cleaning in Hornsby Bend
AC vent cleaning in Hornsby Bend covers the supply and return duct network, register boots, and the air handler coil. This is the service that makes the biggest difference in homes off FM 969, where unpaved driveways and agricultural traffic kick up fine silt all year. That dust gets drawn through return vents, past the filter, and into the ductwork. Within a few years, it lines the inside of your flex ducts like a layer of felt. A full AC vent cleaning in Hornsby Bend typically runs $425 to $685 for the whole system, and we’ll give you that number in writing before any work starts.
What we actually do during a vent cleaning
We agitate the interior duct surfaces with a rotary brush, then run negative-pressure extraction, which means the loosened debris gets pulled straight into a Nikro HEPA vacuum instead of blowing around your house. Every register on every run gets cleaned, not just the ones you can reach. Register boots, return grilles, and the plenum get attention too.
Before and after camera proof
You’ll see photos of what we find and what we leave behind. That’s part of The Relay Standard, and it’s the only way to know the work actually happened. Most Hornsby Bend homeowners are surprised by the before shots. The after shots make the case for themselves.
Trusted Brands We Service in Hornsby Bend
We service all major residential systems, including units from Trane, Carrier, Lennox, Goodman, and Rheem. We also work heavily with Aprilaire filtration products because Hornsby Bend’s dust load often overwhelms standard one-inch filters. When we find a clogged Aprilaire media filter or a Honeywell electronic air cleaner that’s overdue for a wash, we’ll point it out and give you options. Since we run Rotobrush systems and Nikro HEPA extraction, we can handle whatever your ductwork holds, no matter the home’s age or configuration.
See the difference
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AfterCommon HVAC Cleaning Problems We See in Hornsby Bend Homes
- Fine, dark gray dust accumulating on registers within weeks of a cleaning. That’s biosolids-derived particulate from the nearby facility mixed with agricultural silt. It enters through failed duct joints and gets re-circulated because the filter can’t catch what bypasses it entirely.
- Weak airflow from crushed flex runs. In manufactured homes with skirting, duct runs get pinched where they pass under the structure. You can’t fix that with cleaning alone. We camera-inspect the runs, find the crush, and replace or reroute that section.
- Mold or mildew smell in the ductwork after humid summers. Hornsby Bend sees high humidity from late spring through early fall. Interior duct surfaces sweat, and if there’s an air leak pulling in humid outdoor air, mold takes hold inside the ducts. Cleaning removes it, but sealing the gap is what keeps it gone.
- Disconnected return duct joints pulling attic air. Original installs from the 1970s and 1980s often used tape that’s long since failed. When a return joint separates, your system pulls unfiltered, unconditioned attic air straight into the blower. That means dust everywhere and a system that runs constantly without cooling properly.
Pricing for HVAC Cleaning in Hornsby Bend, TX
A whole-home HVAC cleaning in Hornsby Bend runs $425 to $685 for homes up to 2,500 square feet. That includes the full duct network, supply and return registers, air handler coil, and blower cleaning. Larger homes or systems with multiple air handlers run higher, usually $700 to $950. We give you a written price before any work begins, and it does not change at the door. That’s the whole point of The Relay Standard. You’ll know the cost before we touch your system. Estimates are free, and you can request one by calling (940) 283-6595.
We Also Serve Cities Near Hornsby Bend
While most of our HVAC Cleaning in Hornsby Bend work stays local, we also run routes to Austin, Cedar Park, Buda, and San Marcos. If your property sits near the Travis County line or you manage rentals across the metro, one call covers it. The same written pricing and camera proof apply at every location.
Serving Hornsby Bend, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Hornsby Bend 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 Hornsby Bend
Hornsby Bend sits downwind of open agricultural land and the biosolids processing facility, and many homes still run original 1970s-1990s flex duct with failed tape and disconnected joints. That means unfiltered outdoor air gets pulled directly into the system, bypassing the filter and depositing fine silt throughout your ductwork. Austin subdivisions built in the last 20 years have tighter duct seals and less airborne particulates. In Hornsby Bend, if you clean without sealing the leaks, the dust comes back fast. Call (940) 283-6595 for a camera inspection and a fixed quote.
No. Cleaning removes the debris, but a crushed flex run is a structural problem that cleaning cannot correct. In Hornsby Bend’s manufactured homes, we camera-inspect the runs before recommending work, because often the real fix is replacing the crushed section or rerouting it through a clearer path. Then we clean the system so air moves through the corrected run efficiently. Any company that promises cleaning will fix a crushed duct is guessing. We don’t guess. We look, then we price it.
Yes. Air handler coil and blower cleaning are standard on every whole-home job, not an add-on. In Hornsby Bend’s older units, the blower wheel is often the most heavily loaded component in the entire system, with a thick layer of compacted dust that kills airflow. We pull and clean it, inspect the coil, and treat it with a coil cleaner designed to strip the biological film that grows in humid climates. If your air handler hasn’t been cleaned in years, it’s likely the biggest single source of poor performance.
That is the signature dust of this part of Travis County: biosolids-derived particulate from the Hornsby Bend facility blown in from surrounding open land, mixed with fine silty soil from gravel driveways and farm roads. It drifts into the house, gets pulled through return joints that have separated over the years, and coats the inside of your ducts and registers. The air filter catches some of it, but the amount that bypasses through gaps is significant. Sealing those gaps and cleaning what’s accumulated is the only way to stop it showing up on your register covers every week.
Usually yes. The original duct seams and plenum connections on 1970s to 1990s manufactured homes break down over time, especially with the humidity swings we get here. If we clean without sealing, the same leaks keep pulling in the same dust. When we find failed seams during a cleaning, we recommend sealing as a next step and give you a price for that separately. Some Hornsby Bend homeowners do both in the same visit, which makes the most sense because the system is already open and accessible. The 365-Day Done Right Promise applies to the sealing work too: if it fails within a year, we return and correct it at no charge.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Austin, serving Hornsby Bend since the company’s founding in the Relay Home Co. family in 2005.