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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 Kirby
Air duct cleaning in Kirby, TX typically costs $395 – $680 for a full system clean on a single-story ranch home, and most jobs are completed in 3 – 5 hours. We schedule Kirby work Monday through Saturday, with crews arriving in uniform and laying drop cloths before any equipment comes through the door. You’ll get a written price before we start, and a photo of the clean-up before we leave. Call (903) 354-8393 and a live person answers, day or night.
Kirby isn’t a drive-through town to us. Our techs know the 1950s brick ranches off Binz-Engleman, the slab homes along Ackerman Road, the streets around Kirby Middle School where every third house still has its original floor registers. That matters because ducts in Kirby don’t fail the way they do in a 2005 subdivision in Stone Oak. They fail in the risers, in the attics, in the joints that have been settling for sixty years. Knowing what you’ll find before you open the first register changes how we clean, how we price, and how we talk to you about what your house actually needs.
When you call us, you’ll speak to a real person. Not a menu. Paul Adeyemi leads our team, and the standard we hold to is simple: protect your floors, explain the plan in plain words, do the work with commercial-grade equipment, and show you the result before we roll the hose back onto the truck.
Key takeaways:
- Full system cleaning in Kirby runs $395 – $680 for most homes
- Slab-foundation ranch homes need riser extraction, not just brush work
- We inspect and repair disconnected or crushed attic duct runs as part of the job
- Written price before work starts, every single time
- 365-Day Done Right Promise on every job
Why Mortons Air Duct Sanitation Is Kirby’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We’ve cleaned enough Kirby homes to know what a 1963 ranch should look like inside its ducts and what it should not. The difference is in the details. Before anything gets plugged in, our crew covers the path from front door to register with shoe covers and drop cloths. If your dog is napping in the hallway, we’ll work around him. If the kids are down for a nap, we switch to our quieter tools. You told us to treat the house like people live in it, so we do.
Our techs are background-checked and uniformed. They carry Rotobrush and Nikro equipment, the same brands used by commercial remediation crews, not rental shop units. That matters in Kirby’s older ductwork because weak suction won’t pull impacted caliche and pet hair from a slab-cut riser. Our air-whip tools reach what brushes can’t.
We also hold every Kirby job to the Cedarwell Care Promise: a written price before work begins, floors protected from the first minute, pet-safe product choices where available, and a photograph of the clean-up before we leave. If it’s not done right, you don’t have to argue about it. The 365-Day Done Right Promise means we return and make it right. Full stop. That’s not a coupon offer. It’s how Morton’s has operated since 2005, and it’s why families in Air Duct Cleaning in Kirby keep our number saved in their phones.
Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from our San Antonio office, but the crews serving Kirby work this area week in and week out. They know the streets, the home styles, and the way summer humidity behaves inside an unsealed attic duct system.
Styles & brands we work with
Air Duct Repair in Kirby
Air Duct Repair in Kirby is often the real fix when a home still feels dusty two weeks after a cleaning. Kirby’s hot, humid climate pushes AC systems to run from March through October, and in a slab-foundation ranch, that air travels through galvanized runs installed when Eisenhower was president. Over sixty years, those metal ducts corrode. Joints separate. Pinholes open, and the system starts pulling attic insulation directly into the air you breathe. Inspecting for those failures and sealing them with mastic is part of the work, not an optional upsell.
For a typical single-story Kirby home, duct sealing and minor reconnection work runs $150 – $400, depending on how many joints need attention and how accessible the attic run is. If a section of duct is crushed or the corrosion is severe, we’ll show you the camera footage and price replacement before any cutting happens. You’ll always know the number before we touch it.
Slab Riser Repair
Kirby slab homes lose a surprising amount of air through the short risers that connect floor registers to the main trunk. When concrete settles, those risers shift. Galvanized duct disconnects from the register boot, and conditioned air pumps into the earth instead of the room. We scope these with a video inspection and reconnect them from the register side or the duct side, whichever is cleanest for your floors.
Attic Run Reconnection
Homes in Kirby have short, tight attic spaces, and over decades, DIY repairs and settling take their toll. We regularly find sagging runs resting on insulation, joints pulled apart, and flex duct crushed under storage boxes. Reconnecting and sealing those runs restores airflow and stops the system from sucking humid attic air into the supply side, which is the leading cause of muggy, musty-smelling rooms in Kirby homes.
Ductwork Cleaning in Kirby
Ductwork cleaning in Kirby has to account for what actually lives in these systems. In a slab ranch, that’s six decades of caliche dust, pet hair, construction grit, and disintegrated duct liner packed into floor registers and short risers. In the attic, it’s humid air encouraging mold and mildew along the run, plus farmland dust settling whenever the system cycles. A basic brush pass from the register side will not reach the riser base, and it will not fix a disconnected joint. It will just make the visible part look clean for about two weeks.
Our full system cleaning in Kirby uses source removal with HEPA-filtered negative pressure. That’s Rotobrush and Nikro equipment pulling debris out of the duct while it’s agitated, not pushing it around. We clean supply ducts, return ducts, and the register boots, and we video-inspect the trunk line so you can see what we found and what we left behind. Most Kirby homes complete in 3 – 5 hours, and you get a written price for the whole job before we start. Final invoice matches that number.
Supply and Return Duct Cleaning
Supply ducts in Kirby carry filtered air to the rooms. Return ducts pull unfiltered air back to the blower, which means returns in slab homes are usually worse: pet hair, dust bunnies, and fine caliche powder accumulate there faster. We clean both sides of the system and inspect the return chase for gaps that could be pulling air from inside walls.
Floor Register Extraction
Kirby’s slab-cut floor registers are the deepest debris traps we see in any local housing stock. The register opening is recessed into concrete, and below it, a short galvanized rise drops to the main run. Pet hair and sand pack into that rise at the base. Our techs use air-whip tools from the duct side to break the impacted material loose, then capture it with negative pressure. Brushing from above won’t do it. This is one reason honest Kirby duct cleaning takes time.
Trusted Brands We Service in Kirby
When equipment needs repair or replacement in Kirby, we service and install components from Aprilaire, Abatement Technologies, and Guardsman. These brands hold up in the South Texas humidity and the kind of continuous run cycles Kirby AC systems endure. If we’re replacing a corroded duct section or installing a new media filter cabinet, we’ll talk through the options in plain terms: what each one costs, how long it should last, and why we recommend it for a slab home. We don’t push brand names because they sound impressive. We stock them because they work here.
Older Kirby homes also benefit from return-side improvements, and we’ll tell you honestly if a filter upgrade is worth the money or if sealing your existing system does more for the same dollar.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Kirby Homes
- Caliche-packed floor registers. In slab homes, the register box sits in concrete, and over decades, caliche dust from foundations and nearby construction works its way in. It mixes with pet hair and forms a tight plug at the riser base that a standard brush cannot reach.
- Corroded galvanized duct in the attic. Kirby’s high humidity doesn’t just affect indoor air. It condenses inside uninsulated attic ducts, and sixty-year-old galvanized metal eventually develops pinhole leaks. Those tiny holes spray insulation fibers and attic dust into the supply air stream.
- Disconnected attic joints from settling. Clay soils in and around Kirby shift with wet and dry seasons. Over decades, that movement transfers through the frame into the attic, and duct joints that were once taped or loosely connected simply pull apart. The system then pulls hot, humid attic air into the house.
- Floor registers full of pet hair and sand. The recessed design of original slab cut registers means everything that drifts across the floor eventually falls in. We’ve opened registers in Kirby ranches and found two inches of tangled hair, sand, and degraded liner packed tight below the grate.
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AfterPricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Kirby, TX
A whole-system Air Duct Cleaning for a typical single-story Kirby ranch runs $395 – $680. That includes supply and return cleaning, floor register extraction where slab risers are present, video inspection of the trunk line, and a written price before we start. If we find a disconnected joint or minor corrosion during the inspection, sealing and reconnection work adds $150 – $400 depending on scope. Dedicated dryer vent cleaning is a separate service and runs $89 – $149 on most Kirby homes.
What changes the price? Accessibility matters in Kirby’s small attics, especially on older homes where the furnace closet is tight. Homes with original flex duct that has collapsed will need replacement sections, and we’ll price that with you on site before any work proceeds. You’ll never get a surprise invoice. Call (903) 354-8393 for a free estimate, and a live person will walk you through what’s involved.
We Also Serve Cities Near Kirby
Our crews serve the entire northeast San Antonio metro, including Kirby and the surrounding communities. We regularly work in San Antonio, Schertz, Boerne, and Helotes, which means a Kirby home with a tricky slab riser gets the same attention as a 1970s ranch in Schertz or a custom home near Boerne. If you’re just outside city limits, call us and we’ll tell you straight whether we can get a crew to your door that same week.
Serving Kirby, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Kirby 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 Kirby
Slab foundation homes in Kirby run ductwork through concrete, not a crawl space. The short vertical risers that connect floor registers to the main trunk are especially prone to debris packing because everything that drifts across the floor falls past the grate and settles at the riser base. A brush from above can’t reach that. It takes air-whip tools and negative pressure from the duct side to actually extract the impacted mix of caliche and pet hair. That’s why our Kirby process includes riser extraction as a standard part of full system cleaning, not an add-on.
If your registers look recessed and full of sand even after you vacuum them, call (903) 354-8393. We’ll walk you through what we’d do and what it costs.
Kirby’s summer humidity enters attic ducts in two ways: through disconnected joints and through porous, corroded metal. The system is pulling hot, humid attic air into the supply side whenever there’s a gap or pinhole leak. That humid air mixes with the cool conditioned air and condenses inside the duct, which feeds mold and mildew growth along the run. Running the AC constantly doesn’t dry it out. It just keeps pulling more attic air into the loop. Sealing the ducts is the fix, and it’s part of what we inspect on every Kirby job.
Want to know if your attic runs are leaking? Schedule an inspection by calling (903) 354-8393. We’ll show you the video.
Don’t try to vacuum them out from above; the impacted material sits too deep in the riser for a household vacuum to reach, and standard brushing just pushes it further down. The right approach is air-whip extraction from the duct side, which breaks the debris loose and captures it with HEPA-filtered negative pressure. That’s a standard part of our Kirby duct cleaning, and it’s one of the reasons we recommend a full system clean rather than a quick register sweep. If a register is corroded or the boot is broken, we’ll tell you, and we’ll price the replacement before proceeding.
Call (903) 354-8393 and describe what you’re seeing. We’ll give you an honest sense of whether you need a full clean or a targeted repair.
Very normal, unfortunately. Kirby’s housing stock is old enough that decades of settling, past DIY repairs, and stored boxes in tight attics have taken a toll. We regularly open attic hatches and find galvanized runs sagging into the insulation, joints pulled apart, and flex duct kinked or collapsed. It’s not always visible from the register side. That’s why our Kirby service includes a camera inspection of the trunk line, so you can see exactly what we found and decide with us whether to seal, reconnect, or replace.
If you suspect your attic ducts are leaking, call (903) 354-8393 for a free estimate.
Not if the dust is coming from leaks. In an older Kirby home, especially a slab ranch with original galvanized ductwork, visible dust on registers within a few weeks of a cleaning usually points to pinhole leaks, disconnected attic joints, or a return chase pulling air from inside the walls. Cleaning removes the debris in the ducts, but sealing and repair address the source. We’ll inspect during the clean and give you a straight answer: if sealing will solve it, we’ll price that. If cleaning alone will get the job done, we’ll tell you that too. You deserve to know the difference before you pay for anything.
Call (903) 354-8393 and ask for an inspection. We’ll explain what we find in plain language.
Ready to Get Your Kirby Ducts Cleaned Right?
If your registers blow dust, your house smells musty when the AC kicks on, or you’ve simply lived in the same Kirby ranch for fifteen years and can’t remember the last time anyone looked inside the ducts, give us a call. You’ll get a live person, a straight answer, and a written price before anything starts. We can often schedule Kirby appointments within the same week, and we’ll protect your floors and furniture from the first minute.
Call (903) 354-8393 for a free estimate. We’re happy to walk you through the process and tell you honestly what your house needs and what it doesn’t.
Written by Paul Adeyemi, Owner at Mortons Air Duct San Antonio, serving Kirby, TX with air duct and dryer vent cleaning since 2005.