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.
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AfterFast, Reliable Air Duct Cleaning Across Commerce City
Air duct cleaning in Commerce City, CO typically runs $380-$780 for a full residential system, with most jobs scheduled within a week and completed in a single day. We dispatch crews from our Denver office to Commerce City daily, and we’ve learned that homes here need a different scope of work than what passes for standard in other metro suburbs.
Our Air Duct Cleaning team knows the split personality of this city’s housing stock: the aging ranch homes and bungalows along the Highway 2 corridor built from the 1940s through the 1970s, and the newer North Range subdivisions sitting open to prairie wind. Both present distinct duct conditions, and neither responds well to the $79 coupon special that blows compressed air through a shop vac and calls it done. If you live in Commerce City, call (720) 513-5159. We’ll put a written price in front of you before any work starts, and every duct run gets photographed before and after.
Why CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Aurora Is Commerce City’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
We’ve served homeowners in Commerce City since expanding our Denver-area operations in 2013, and the documented photo records from those jobs tell a consistent story: this city’s ductwork holds more than household dust. Under the H.A.V.E.N. Standard, every crew is background-checked, uniformed, and identified by name before arrival - Haven Standard Clause 3: Verified Crews. Tomas Reyes built CleanRun on the principle that a customer should see what was in their ducts before being asked to believe it mattered.
Our 365-Day Done Right Promise applies to every Commerce City job in writing, not as a verbal assurance that disappears with the technician. If the work isn’t right, we make it right. We’ve delivered written prices before work began on 52,000-plus homes, and that practice extends to every property in Commerce City we enter. The photo record from your job - inside every duct run, before and after - becomes part of your standard deliverable, not an upsell.
Scheduling is coordinated from our Denver office, and crews carry equipment from Rotobrush, Nikro, and Abatement Technologies to handle the specific contamination profile we find in Commerce City homes. We’re not guessing at what your system needs. We inspect first, document what we find, and quote in writing.
Our Air Duct Cleaning Services in Commerce City
Residential Duct Cleaning
Commerce City’s older southern neighborhoods present conditions we rarely see in Thornton or Aurora. The original sheet-metal or early flex ductwork in 1940s-1970s homes along the Highway 2 corridor has often never been professionally cleaned, and decades of mildly acidic industrial air can leave interior corrosion that a technician who skips inspection will miss entirely. Our residential clean starts with a video scope of the full system, not just the registers you can see from the hallway.
Commercial Duct Cleaning
Businesses near the industrial zones of Commerce City face elevated particulate loads from the Suncor refinery operations and associated traffic. Commercial HVAC systems with fresh-air intakes pull in a chemically distinct mix that standard filter changes don’t address. We size our negative-pressure extraction and HEPA filtration to the actual square footage and occupancy load of your building, with a written scope delivered before any panel comes off.
Supply Duct Cleaning
The supply side delivers conditioned air to your rooms, and in Commerce City homes - especially those downwind of the refinery - we’ve found supply branches coated in a dark, oily film that behaves nothing like ordinary dust. Compressed-air blowout alone won’t remove it. We use direct-contact agitation with appropriate degreasers under contained negative pressure, a scope of work that differentiates Commerce City jobs from typical Denver suburb calls.
Return Duct Cleaning
Return ducts pull air back to the air handler, and in Commerce City’s windy, semi-arid climate, they also pull in prairie dust and industrial emissions through envelope gaps and inadequate filtration. The return side is where we most often find packed filter media and crushed flex runs behind the air handler, problems that reduce airflow and strain your equipment. Our return cleaning includes inspection of the filter rack and recommendations for MERV rating appropriate to your actual conditions.
Full System Cleaning
A full system cleaning in Commerce City means every accessible component: supply branches, return trunk, plenum (the main distribution box), registers, grilles, and the air handler cabinet. Given the refinery-adjacent contamination profile and the age of much of the housing stock, this is the scope we most often recommend for first-time cleanings in southern Commerce City homes. The price is flat per system, agreed in writing before work begins - Haven Standard Clause 1.
Video Inspection
We scope every system we clean, and we offer standalone video inspection for Commerce City homeowners who want to know what’s inside their ducts before deciding on service. The camera shows what words can’t: corrosion at elbows, debris build-up at transitions, disconnected runs behind walls. You see the footage. We explain what it means. Then you decide.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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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.
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Our equipment roster includes Rotobrush agitation systems, Nikro negative-air machines, and filtration components from Honeywell and Aprilaire - brands you can look up independently before agreeing to any price. We stock common parts and media for Commerce City customers to avoid delays, and our technicians carry the full range of contact-cleaning agents needed for the refinery-adjacent film we encounter in this market. If your system uses specialized components, we’ll tell you during the initial scope and source what we don’t carry.
Common Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Commerce City Homes
- Oily petrochemical film in duct interiors. Homes on the south and east sides of Commerce City, downwind of the Suncor refinery, collect a dark, oily coating that standard compressed-air blowout won’t touch. It requires direct-contact agitation with degreasers under contained negative pressure - a different scope and price point than a routine dust removal.
- Interior corrosion in original sheet-metal ducts. The 1940s-1970s housing along Highway 2 has ductwork that has never been opened, and decades of mildly acidic industrial air leaves metal surfaces pitted and thinning. Technicians who assume clean metal and skip video inspection miss failing ductwork that needs repair or replacement, not just cleaning.
- Disconnected or crushed flex runs behind the air handler. Older homes in southern Commerce City frequently have flex duct that has collapsed at bends or pulled loose from collars, restricting airflow and creating pressure imbalances. These get missed when the job stops at visible registers and grilles.
- Filter media packed beyond rated capacity. The combination of prairie dust and industrial particulates on windy days overwhelms standard filters in Commerce City homes. We often find filter media that hasn’t been sized to the actual MERV rating the system needs for this environment, leading to bypass and contamination of downstream components.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Commerce City, CO
A typical residential full system cleaning in Commerce City runs $380-$780, depending on system size, accessibility, and the contamination level we document during initial inspection. Supply-only or return-only cleaning ranges from $220-$420. Video inspection as a standalone service is $180-$280, credited toward the full cleaning price if you proceed.
Commercial systems vary by square footage and HVAC complexity; most Commerce City commercial quotes fall between $680-$1,800.
What moves the price: the number of duct runs, presence of the oily refinery-adjacent film requiring degreaser contact-cleaning, accessibility of the air handler, and any repair or reconnection work needed for crushed or disconnected branches. We do not price per vent. One flat price per system, agreed in writing before any work starts. Every quote includes the documented photo record as a standard deliverable, not an add-on.
Call (720) 513-5159 for a written estimate at no charge. We’ll inspect, document what we find, and put a price in front of you. No call-for-a-quote runaround. Haven Standard Clause 1.
We Also Serve Cities Near Commerce City
CleanRun crews work throughout the north metro area, including Air Duct Cleaning in Commerce City as well as scheduled service in Thornton, Aurora, Denver, and Brighton. Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from our Denver office, with local crews serving each market. If you’re unsure whether your address falls within our Commerce City service radius, call (720) 513-5159 and we’ll confirm.
Serving Commerce City, CO - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Commerce City 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 - Air Duct Cleaning in Commerce City
Commerce City’s position downwind of the Suncor refinery means duct interiors here collect a dark, oily petrochemical film that standard compressed-air blowout won’t remove, a condition that simply doesn’t show up at the same levels in Denver or Aurora homes. The semi-arid, windy climate also packs filter media with prairie dust and industrial particulates that suburban systems don’t face. We scope first and adjust our scope of work to what we actually find, with the price fixed in writing before we begin. Call (720) 513-5159 for an exact quote - estimates are free.
Expect us to find original sheet-metal or early flex ductwork that may show interior corrosion, debris accumulation at elbows and transitions, and possibly disconnected or crushed runs behind the air handler that have restricted airflow for years. Our crew was called to a 1960s ranch off the Highway 2 corridor in the southern part of Commerce City where the homeowner had never had the original sheet-metal ducts cleaned. Camera inspection showed the supply and return ducts coated in an oily black film with two crushed flex runs behind the air handler. We ran agitation tools with degreaser through the branches under negative pressure with HEPA filtration, then reconnected the collapsed runs, and the homeowner noticed the difference within a day. The full scope and written price are delivered before any panel comes off. Call (720) 513-5159 to schedule inspection.
Yes. The Suncor Energy refinery is a documented top industrial air polluter in Colorado, and its emissions - petrochemical particulates, sulfur compounds, and fine industrial particles - create a contamination profile inside Commerce City ductwork that technicians in neighboring cities rarely encounter. The dark, oily film we remove from ducts on the south and east sides of the city is chemically distinct from household dust and requires specific cleaning agents and contact agitation, not just air. We document what we find with before-and-after photography so you can see the difference. Call (720) 513-5159 for a free inspection and written quote.
Every accessible component: supply branches, return trunk, plenum, registers, grilles, and the air handler cabinet, with video inspection before and after. In Commerce City, this scope is particularly important because the contamination profile and age of the housing stock mean problems hide behind visible surfaces - crushed runs, corrosion, and the refinery-adjacent film don’t show up at the register. The documented photo record covers every duct run, delivered to you as part of the standard job record. Price is flat per system, agreed in writing before work starts. Call (720) 513-5159 for your specific quote.
If your dryer vent hasn’t been cleaned in the past year, yes - it’s efficient to address both while our crew is on site, and lint accumulation presents a genuine fire hazard that deserves the same documentation standard we apply to ductwork. We can scope the dryer vent during the same visit and quote it as a separate line item in writing. There’s no package-pressure upsell; you decide what you want done after you see the scope and the price. Call (720) 513-5159 to schedule both services.
Ready to see what’s inside your ducts? Call CleanRun at (720) 513-5159 for a free inspection and written estimate. We’ll show you the before photo before we say a word about what needs to happen next.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Duct Repair & Cleaning, serving Commerce City and the north metro Denver area since 2013.