Whole-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 Cibolo
Most Cibolo homeowners with a production-built home from the last twenty years are breathing air through ducts that have never been professionally cleaned. We’re Kestrel Air Duct Cleaning, and our crews run scheduled service throughout Cibolo from our San Antonio dispatch office. That means we know the difference between a Copper Creek split-level with attic flex runs and a rural property off Cibolo Valley Drive where dust from unpaved roads loads the system faster than the city average. If your registers have gray buildup, your HVAC runs longer than it used to, or you’re in one of those homes that went straight from the builder’s walkthrough to your family without a duct cleaning in between, call us at (469) 972-3151. We’ll give you a written price before we touch a single vent.
Why Kestrel Air Duct Cleaning Is Cibolo’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We’ve been working under the Kingswell Guarantee since 2004. That means four written promises on every job: a written price before work begins, a defined arrival window, a clean job site, and a written guarantee with a free return visit if the work fails within the guarantee period. For Cibolo homeowners, that structure matters because this market has a specific problem, production homes hitting the 5-15 year mark with construction debris still sealed in the flex ductwork from the original build. Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and trained on Rotobrush rotary brush systems, Nikro negative-pressure units, and Abatement Technologies HEPA filtration, not box-store shop vacs. Calls are answered by a live person, 24/7. No voicemail queue. No automated system. A real conversation, any time of day.
Our Air Duct Cleaning in Cibolo reputation is built on showing up in the window we gave, saying the price clearly, and putting the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing before we leave. If the work falls short within that year, we return and make it right at no charge. That’s not a courtesy we extend when we feel like it. It’s documented on every single job.
HVAC Duct Cleaning in Cibolo
HVAC Duct Cleaning in Cibolo addresses the full air distribution system, supply and return, not just the visible registers. For the typical production-built home in neighborhoods like Turning Stone or along Cibolo Valley Drive, this means accessing the attic air handler, running rotary brush agitation through each branch line, and extracting dislodged debris with negative-air extraction, which is a vacuum system that pulls contaminants out while keeping them contained. Most Cibolo homes run between $380 and $620 for a full residential system cleaning, depending on the number of air handlers, duct branches, and whether the home has been cleaned before. A first cleaning on a 10-year-old home with construction debris sealed in the flex liner takes longer than a maintenance cleaning on a system we’ve serviced every three years.
Supply Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts push conditioned air into your living spaces. In Cibolo’s slab-on-grade homes with long flex runs from attic handlers, these lines often carry the heaviest construction debris loads. Drywall dust from the original build bonds to the flex liner and recirculates every time the blower cycles. We run Rotobrush agitation tools through each branch while the Nikro negative-pressure unit captures the loosened material before it enters your rooms.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts pull air back to the handler for reconditioning. These chases are where we find the accumulated pet hair, pollen, and dust from multiple prior occupants in Cibolo’s high-turnover rental market near JBSA-Randolph. The return side also has the loose filter-rack gaps that let mountain cedar pollen bypass your filter entirely. Cleaning the return chase without addressing those gaps resets the clock for the next pollen season.
Vent Cleaning in Cibolo
Vent Cleaning in Cibolo means the accessible termination points, wall and floor registers, and boot connections where debris often collects in visible clumps. This is what most homeowners notice first: the gray ring around the register louvers, the musty smell when the blower kicks on, the thin film of dust that resettles within a day of wiping it away. A proper vent cleaning in Cibolo runs $180 to $340 for register and boot service, or it’s included as the final step of a full HVAC duct cleaning. But vent cleaning alone is not source removal. The debris bonded to the flex duct liner six feet back from the register is still there, still recirculating. We explain this distinction because some outfits wipe the registers and call the job done.
Register and Boot Detailing
We remove each register, clean the boot connection where the duct meets the wall or floor, and treat the register itself with non-residue cleaner. In Cibolo homes with multiple prior occupants, this is where hair and fine debris collect at the duct termination. It’s the visible proof that something deeper is happening in the system.
Video Inspection Before and After
Our technicians run a camera through representative duct sections before work starts and after agitation and extraction are complete. You see the flex liner condition on a screen before we begin. You see the same section after. This matters in Cibolo, where construction debris can be sealed into the ductwork so uniformly that homeowners assume the system is clean because the air smells neutral.
Trusted Brands We Service in Cibolo
Kestrel technicians clean duct systems connected to every major HVAC brand installed in Cibolo’s production homes, Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Goodman, Rheem, and others. We don’t service the mechanical components, that’s your HVAC contractor’s work, but we coordinate with them when a cleaning reveals airflow restrictions that strain the blower motor. For homeowners who want to maintain clean air between service visits, we stock and install Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Guardsman filtration and indoor-air-quality products sized to your system’s specifications. A better filter in a loose filter rack still leaks, so we also assess and seal filter-rack gaps as part of our assessment.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Cibolo Homes
- Construction debris sealed in flex ductwork from the original build. Because so much of Cibolo was built as production housing since the early 2000s, the first air-duct cleaning many Copper Creek and Turning Stone homes ever receive also happens to be their first since construction. The majority of debris our crew pulls out was sealed into the flex ductwork at the original build, not accumulated by the current owner. Drywall dust, wood shavings, and blown-in insulation fibers bond to the liner and recirculate for years.
- Mountain cedar pollen infiltration through loose filter-rack gaps. Cibolo’s December-February cedar pollen season is among the heaviest in the country, and the loose filter-rack gaps common in production-built homes let that pollen bypass whatever MERV rating the homeowner installed. The pollen embeds directly in the flex duct liner, where standard household cleaning can’t reach it.
- Multiple pet-owning households cycling through without cleaning between occupancies. The rapid turnover of homes near JBSA-Randolph, particularly rentals, means two or three pet-owning families may have occupied a property without a single duct cleaning between them. The return chases collect hair and dander that the current owner didn’t generate.
- Rural properties with accelerated dust loading from unpaved roads. Homes on or near unpaved roads in the Cibolo area experience faster particulate accumulation than city-center properties. The dust is finer, more constant, and the longer service drives lead some outfits to skip the camera inspection and agitation tools on the far runs, leaving the back half of the duct system untouched.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Cibolo, TX
Most Cibolo homes run between $380 and $620 for a full residential HVAC duct cleaning, including supply and return systems, register and boot detailing, and before-and-after video inspection. Vent cleaning alone, registers and boots without full duct access, runs $180 to $340. Commercial systems and multi-handler homes start at $720 and are quoted on-site after we count air handlers, duct branches, and access points. What moves you within the range: whether this is a first cleaning on a system with construction debris, the number of returns and supplies, whether we need to coordinate attic access in summer heat, and whether you add filtration upgrades like an Aprilaire media cleaner or Guardsman UV treatment. We give one flat price per system, agreed in writing before work starts. No per-vent pricing. No door-step revisions. Call (469) 972-3151 for an exact quote. Estimates are free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Cibolo
Our Air Duct Cleaning crews run scheduled service to Schertz, Universal City, Converse, and New Braunfels from the same San Antonio dispatch office that coordinates Cibolo appointments. Same written price guarantee, same equipment, same 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing.
Serving Cibolo, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Cibolo 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 Cibolo
Every two to three years, not the generic five-year interval you’ll see elsewhere. The fine dust from unpaved roads loads filters and ductwork faster than city properties, and South-Central Texas heat means your system runs nearly year-round with almost no seasonal downtime. If you heat with wood or have multiple pets, lean toward two years. Call (469) 972-3151 and we’ll assess your specific property.
Almost certainly, and it’s probably not your debris. A 2014 production-built home in Cibolo has flex ductwork that was installed before the drywall went up and before the final construction cleanup. Drywall dust, wood shavings, and insulation fibers were sealed into that ductwork at the build and have been recirculating every time your blower cycles. A homeowner off Cibolo Valley Drive near the Turning Stone entry had never scheduled duct cleaning in eight years of ownership; when we cut in to the supply and return ducts, the flex liner was coated in drywall dust from the 2016 build and the return chase carried pet hair from at least two prior occupants. We set the system under negative pressure with HEPA filtration, ran agitation tools and a camera inspection through every branch, and the blower motor amp draw dropped back to spec. Call (469) 972-3151 for a free estimate.
A higher-MERV filter helps only if your filter rack is sealed. The loose gaps common in Cibolo production homes let mountain cedar pollen bypass whatever filter you install, embedding allergens directly in the flex duct liner. We assess and seal those gaps, then recommend the right Aprilaire or Honeywell filtration for your system specs. Duct cleaning without sealing the gaps just resets the clock. Call (469) 972-3151 for an exact quote.
Yes. Landlords in the Cibolo rental market routinely repaint and re-carpet between tenants but almost never schedule duct cleaning. If you’re the third or fourth occupant since the build, the return chases are likely carrying debris from previous households, pet hair in particular. The re-carpeting doesn’t address what’s in the ductwork. Ask your landlord, or if you’re responsible for maintenance, call us for a written quote you can forward. Estimates are free at (469) 972-3151.
Source removal, not surface cleaning. A NADCA-standards cleaning puts the entire duct system under negative pressure with a HEPA-filtered vacuum, agitates the duct walls with rotary brush tools to dislodge bonded debris, and extracts it before it enters your living space. A quick vent wipe removes the visible dust from your register louvers but leaves the drywall dust and insulation fibers bonded to the flex duct liner six feet back. You see a clean vent and assume the system is clean. We show you the camera footage before and after so you know the difference. Call (469) 972-3151 for an exact quote.
Written by Dale Whitmore, Owner at Kestrel Air Duct Cleaning, serving Cibolo under the Kingswell Guarantee since 2004.




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