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 Los Gatos
Air duct cleaning in Los Gatos costs between $380 and $720 for a full system on a typical 2,000-square-foot home, and most jobs take four to six hours from setup to final walkthrough. If you’re reading this from a 1920s Craftsman near downtown or a hillside home off Bear Creek Road, you already know the air inside feels heavier than it should. Kestrel Air Duct San Jose serves Los Gatos with written upfront pricing, a defined arrival window, and a 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing on every job. Call (669) 220-7869 and a live person answers, any hour.
Why Kestrel Air Duct San Jose Is Los Gatos’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Los Gatos homeowners call us because we treat their ductwork like the original system it usually is. Most houses here weren’t built yesterday, and the ductwork tells that story. Dale Whitmore leads our crews, and he’s the reason we document everything: camera footage before, camera footage after, and a written report of what we found and sealed. That matters on East Main Street and in the Almond Grove district, where a disconnected return run can pull crawlspace air into the living room for years without anyone knowing.
Our technicians arrive uniformed and background-checked, driving a stocked van that carries Rotobrush equipment for interior duct cleaning, Nikro negative-air machines for extraction, and Abatement Technologies HEPA filtration so loosened debris goes outside, not into your home. We schedule a specific arrival window for Los Gatos jobs and the same crew that starts your cleaning finishes it.
We get called out to Los Gatos for a lot of reasons. Odors that never leave. Dust returning to window sills two days after the house was cleaned. A furnace filter darkening in three months instead of six. These are the visible signs of what we routinely find inside older Los Gatos systems: packed return runs, failed duct tape, and gaps at the plenum. The work isn’t just brushing. It’s diagnosing how the air actually moves through your specific house.
Styles & brands we work with
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in Los Gatos
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in Los Gatos covers offices, medical suites, retail spaces, and apartment common areas, and it runs from $0.18 to $0.35 per square foot depending on duct configuration and accessibility. The reliable part of that range comes from a complete system approach: we clean supply and return runs, not just the visible register covers. For Los Gatos commercial tenants along North Santa Cruz Avenue or Los Gatos Boulevard, that means employees and customers are breathing air that hasn’t been contaminated by tenants from twenty years ago.
Most commercial buildings here have one thing in common that homes don’t: the central fan never stops. That constant runtime pulls the same particles through the system endlessly, turning ducts into a collection site for everything the building produces.
Office and Retail Systems
We schedule commercial work around your hours, using negative-air extraction to keep the workspace usable during cleaning. Our Nikro equipment keeps the building under negative pressure while we agitate the duct walls, which means employees don’t need to leave and your business keeps operating.
Restaurant and Multi-Use Buildings
Kitchens and mixed-use buildings in Los Gatos collect grease-laden dust that hardens onto duct walls. We remove it mechanically and replace filtration so the system can move clean air again. This work includes before-and-after video so building owners can verify what was done.
Air Duct Cleaning Services in Los Gatos
Air Duct Cleaning Services in Los Gatos begin at $380 for a 1,200-square-foot ranch home and run up to $720 for a two-story hillside property with multiple supply runs and a distant return plenum. That’s the whole-system price, fixed in writing before we set up the first piece of equipment. No per-vent add-ons. No new price at the door. The job includes cleaning every supply duct, return duct, plenums, and the blower cabinet.
Supply and Return Cleaning
We break the job into two halves deliberately. Supply ducts carry conditioned air from your furnace or heat pump to the rooms. Return ducts pull air back to be reheated or cooled. Both collect different types of debris, and both require separate cleaning passes with brush agitation followed by negative-pressure extraction. Doing one without the other solves half the problem.
Full System Cleaning With Video
When our crew cleans a full system in Los Gatos, we run a camera through the main supply trunk and return plenum before we start. That way you see the packed dust, the disconnected joints, the dead zones. After cleaning, we run the camera again. The written report includes both recordings so you can compare. We don’t ask you to trust a summary. We show you the evidence.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Los Gatos
We work on every major residential and light commercial duct system you’ll find in Los Gatos homes, from uninsulated rectangular galvanized runs in pre-war Victorians to insulated flex duct in recent hillside builds. When we identify an airflow problem that cleaning alone won’t fix, we recommend filtration and air quality products from Honeywell and Aprilaire, and we can install them as part of the written job scope. Our technicians carry the correct replacement registers, filters, and sealing materials on the van, so when the camera finds a crushed flex run or an open duct joint, we can address it immediately rather than scheduling a second appointment. Abatement Technologies HEPA filtration runs during the cleaning itself, keeping loosened particles from re-entering the living space.
See the difference
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AfterCommon Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Los Gatos Homes
- Disconnected runs under the house: In pre-1950 homes throughout the Almond Grove district, galvanized duct sections rest in crawl spaces where damp earth and old hanger straps gradually pull joints apart. Our camera work identifies these gaps that register-only cleaning completely misses.
- Corner-packed rectangular ducts: Gravity-fed systems with oversized rectangular trunks keep working because they’re big, but the corners hold decades of plaster dust and construction debris. A round brush can’t touch those corners. Only rectangular agitation tools can.
- Wildfire smoke residue: Los Gatos sits against the Santa Cruz Mountains, and when smoke settles over the town each fall, it leaves a fine, sticky particulate that coats duct interiors. After a wildfire season, even homes with good filters need a system cleaning to remove the residue.
- Dust returning months after a cleaning: This usually means the ducts were cleaned but not sealed. If the joints and seams remain open, the same crawl space or wall cavity air that was being pulled in before returns immediately. We seal those gaps with mastic as part of the job.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Los Gatos, CA
Most Los Gatos homes fall between $380 and $720 for full system cleaning. The final written price depends on square footage, number of supply runs, accessibility of the return plenum, and whether we’re also cleaning the blower cabinet and coils. Homes built before 1950 often require additional sealing work after cleaning, which adds to the total. We give you one number before we begin and that number doesn’t change. Call (669) 220-7869 for a free estimate. You’ll get a real person and an honest range for your specific house, based on what we know about Los Gatos construction, not a generic calculator.
We Also Serve Cities Near Los Gatos
Kestrel Air Duct San Jose serves the full Los Gatos area and the communities around it. If you need Air Duct Cleaning in Saratoga, Campbell, Cupertino, or Santa Clara, the same crews, equipment, and written guarantee apply. We dispatch from the San Francisco Bay Area office and route local crews to every appointment, so scheduling stays tight regardless of which side of Highway 17 you’re on. Air Duct Cleaning in Los Gatos remains our primary service area.
Serving Los Gatos, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Gatos 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 Los Gatos
Homes from the 1920s through the 1940s in neighborhoods like the Almond Grove district often run on original gravity-fed heating with oversized rectangular ducts, and standard residential cleaning equipment can’t physically reach the corners those ducts have. We use rectangular agitation tools matched to the duct size and follow with negative-air extraction to pull debris out rather than simply loosening it. The cleaning is followed by camera inspection to confirm the corners are clear.
Wildfire smoke deposits a fine, sticky layer of particulate inside ducts that ordinary furnace filters don’t capture. After a heavy smoke season, that layer attracts more dust and holds odors long after the outdoor air clears. A full system cleaning with HEPA-filtered extraction is the only way to remove it, and fall is the busiest season for precisely this reason. Call (669) 220-7869 to schedule an inspection before the next Santa Ana-influenced wind event pushes smoke through the hills.
We stop and show you the camera footage. Then we clean the disconnected section, realign the joint if possible, and seal it with mastic as part of a quoted scope. The alternative is cleaning everything else and leaving a gap that keeps pulling crawl space air back into the system, which defeats the entire purpose. Most homeowners approve the sealing work on the spot because the camera makes the problem undeniable.
September through November is when Mediterranean dry season dust, wildfire smoke particulate, and allergies from trees and grasses have all finished accumulating in the system. That’s also when Los Gatos homeowners switch their systems from cooling to heating and notice the specific smell of hot dust blowing through registers they haven’t used in months. Fall cleaning means the heating season starts with clean air rather than the smell of everything that accumulated all summer.
Yes, with the right tools and technique. The challenge with original 1920s galvanized rectangular ducts is that they’re large enough for debris to pack into corners but old enough to be brittle at the seams. We use low-RPM rotary brush agitation sized to the duct, not a spinning brush forced into a too-small opening, which is what causes damage. Tait Avenue and other Almond Grove streets have taught us exactly how much pressure these systems tolerate. Call (669) 220-7869 for a free estimate, and we’ll assess your duct materials before any tool touches metal.
Written by Dale Whitmore, Owner at Kestrel Air Duct San Jose, serving Los Gatos since 2004.