Air Duct Cleaning — Repair Cost (2026)
National estimate: $180–$1,000 for a ductwork & vents — duct cleaning. Pick your quality tier or brand and enter a ZIP to localize. Reviewed July 2026.
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$180–$1,000 national estimate for a ductwork & vents — duct cleaning. Localize below.
| Most common repair | Typical total | DIY? |
|---|---|---|
| Whole-home professional duct cleaning (full-system 2-person crew service) | $450–$1,000 | Pro recommended |
| Per-vent or per-square-foot priced cleaning (lighter-touch service) | $180–$500 | Pro recommended |
Plus a typical service-call / diagnostic fee of $75–$150, often credited toward the repair.
Pick a quality tier for a class-typical estimate, or a specific brand to override it (brand adjusts the parts portion only). Enter a ZIP or Canadian postal code to localize to your metro's labor costs. Everything updates without a page reload; no data leaves your browser except the shard lookup.
Base: 2 published national repair-cost guides (retrieved 2026-07) · full source registry on the methodology page · National base range (BLS OEWS May 2025 + BEA RPP 2024) · Reviewed July 2026 · Estimated
How do brand and quality tier change the repair cost?
Brand and tier adjust the parts portion only — never labor. Basic and mid-range brands are the baseline; premium and luxury lines carry pricier OEM-restricted components. Pick a tier for a class-typical estimate, or a specific brand to override it.
| Brand | Parts factor | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Basic tier parts ×0.87 | ||
| Goodman | ×0.85 | Parts ×0.85 (Repeatedly cited as the cheapest-parts brand with the widest generic/aftermarket distribution ("Goodman parts are everywhere and inexpensive"); it is the $25-wholesale-capacitor reference point cost guides use when pricing Trane and other brands at a 20-40% premium above it.) |
| Payne | ×0.88 | Parts ×0.88 (Carrier's explicit budget/builder-grade line ("Carrier's economy brand"), sold to production home builders "by the thousands." One brand review quantifies it directly: "Carrier engineering at 25-30% lower cost." A separate parts-focused source notes Payne shares the same core wear parts (compressors, control boards, capacitors, contactors) as Carrier/Bryant — set modestly above Goodman to reflect that the price gap is more about controls/cabinet/warranty tier than a distinct cheaper-parts channel, while still tracking its explicit budget positioning.) |
| KeepRite | ×0.87 | Parts ×0.87 (Nameplate of International Comfort Products, a Carrier Global subsidiary, sharing engineering, manufacturing and component supply with Carrier and Bryant equipment. A Canadian price guide states that KeepRite 'shares engineering DNA with Carrier but sells at 25-30% lower prices because it doesn't carry the Carrier brand premium', and its side-by-side table prices a KeepRite furnace at $3,500-$6,000 CAD installed against Carrier's $4,500-$7,000 CAD -- the same 25-30%-below-Carrier magnitude that places Payne at the value tier. Set just below Payne to reflect the identical shared-platform, value-nameplate positioning.) |
| Mid-range tier parts ×1 | ||
| Bosch | ×0.95 | Parts ×0.95 (Bosch is a newer US ducted-heat-pump entrant that undercuts legacy premium brands to gain share — one contractor review states its IDS 2.0 delivers Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat-level modulation granularity 'at roughly 70% of the installed cost' of a comparable Mitsubishi system — but its smaller, still-growing parts-distribution footprint (explicitly described as 'smaller than Carrier or Lennox') can add 1-2 day waits on non-stocked components in some regions.) |
| Rheem | ×1 | Baseline — no parts adjustment |
| York | ×1 | Baseline — no parts adjustment |
| Bryant | ×1 | Baseline — no parts adjustment |
| Ruud | ×0.97 | Parts ×0.97 (published rates from 1 local repair company) |
| Amana | ×1 | Baseline — no parts adjustment |
| Heil | ×1 | Baseline — no parts adjustment |
| LG | ×0.95 | Parts ×0.95 (Large diversified manufacturer that competes with the dedicated Japanese ductless specialists on price rather than on installed base: a four-brand contractor comparison of single-zone equipment cost puts LG lowest of the four at $1,255, against Mitsubishi $1,460, Fujitsu $1,480 and Daikin $1,495, with the same comparison noting that 'LG's warranty is the shortest' of the group. That equipment-price gap does not extend to parts -- LG main PCB assemblies retail at $191.85-$468.17, ordinary electronics pricing for an inverter mini-split platform -- so the saving sits in the equipment and the warranty term rather than in cheaper repairs. Set at the mainstream median alongside Bosch rather than pushed into the value tier on equipment price alone.) |
| Napoleon | ×1 | Baseline — no parts adjustment |
| Premium tier parts ×1.175 | ||
| Carrier | ×1.15 | Parts ×1.15 (Same engineering platform as sister brands Bryant/Payne (same compressors, control boards, blower motors, contactors, run capacitors per a parts-focused comparison), but sold through Carrier's more selective Factory Authorized Dealer network; a brand cost-comparison piece puts Carrier at roughly 10-20% more for the same underlying hardware than sister brand Bryant.) |
| Trane | ×1.3 | Parts ×1.3 (Published brand-comparison data puts a capacitor priced ~$25 wholesale on Goodman at $35–45 on Trane, and the same published comparison puts Trane parts 20–40% above equivalent Goodman or Bryant parts, with critical Trane parts documented as harder to keep in stock (1–3 week waits).) |
| Lennox | ×1.35 | Parts ×1.35 (Lennox 'uses proprietary parts that only Lennox dealers can source.' A direct brand comparison found a blower-motor replacement running $2,400-$2,500 installed on Lennox vs $600-$1,200 on Carrier, with Lennox parts needing to be special-ordered direct from the factory (2-4 week wait) versus same-day local-supplier availability for Carrier parts.) |
| American Standard | ×1.15 | Parts ×1.15 (Same parent (Trane Technologies), same factories/assembly lines, and part numbers identical/interchangeable with Trane per this source — but positioned as the value-conscious sister brand: Trane costs roughly 5-15% more than an equivalent American Standard model for the same core components, a gap the source attributes to marketing/branding rather than hardware differences.) |
| Daikin | ×1.1 | Parts ×1.1 (Global mini-split OEM competing at the premium tier but positioned as the value option of the two dominant Japanese ductless brands: a contractor pricing guide shows a comparable 12,000 BTU system quoting $300-$800 (and separately, $500-$1,000) cheaper installed than an equivalent Mitsubishi Electric system for the same install labor — mid-premium, below Mitsubishi.) |
| Mitsubishi Electric | ×1.2 | Parts ×1.2 (Widely described as carrying a 'brand tax' as the perceived pinnacle of ductless mini-split technology; the same direct comparison used for Daikin shows a comparable 12,000 BTU Mitsubishi system quoting $300-$800 higher than Daikin despite identical installation labor — mid-premium, above Daikin.) |
| Worcester Bosch | ×1.15 | Parts ×1.15 (UK domestic-boiler market leader (~26% market share, ~half a million units/year) explicitly described as a premium-positioned brand. A direct UK installed-cost comparison shows Worcester Bosch running £1,500-£2,500 (combi swap) to £2,000-£3,000 (full system) — below sister-premium Vaillant's £2,000-£3,500 range at comparable tiers, but above a mainstream ducted-brand baseline.) |
| Vaillant | ×1.25 | Parts ×1.25 (German-engineered premium UK boiler brand. A direct installed-cost comparison shows Vaillant running £2,000-£3,500 vs Worcester Bosch's £1,500-£3,000 for equivalent combi/full-system installs (roughly 15-25% above Worcester Bosch at comparable tiers), and Vaillant posted the lowest 2025 warranty-claims rate (0.8 per 1,000 units) of any major UK boiler brand — consistent with premium-grade componentry.) |
| Viessmann | ×1.2 | Parts ×1.2 (published rates from 2 local repair companies) |
| Fujitsu | ×1.1 | Parts ×1.1 (published rates from 4 local repair companies) |
Base: brand parts factors from named retailer listings; tier factor = median of the tier's brands · Applied to the parts portion only · Reviewed July 2026 · Estimated
Ductwork & Vents duct cleaning: what usually causes it? Estimated
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Whole-home professional duct cleaning (full-system 2-person crew service)
Pro recommended$450–$1,000
MAINTENANCE, not a fault repair — duct cleaning doesn't fix a broken component, it's a periodic hygiene/dust-load service; a national guide/a national guide price a full 2-person whole-house cleaning crew at $450-$1,000.
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Per-vent or per-square-foot priced cleaning (lighter-touch service)
Pro recommended$180–$500
MAINTENANCE, not a fault repair — some providers price by the vent ($25-$50/vent) or by square footage ($0.20-$0.40/sq ft) instead of a flat whole-house fee, landing lower for smaller homes; one national guide notes a typical 1,500 sq ft home runs $180-$360 under this pricing model.
Base: 2 published national repair-cost guides (retrieved 2026-07) · full source registry on the methodology page · National base range (BLS OEWS May 2025 + BEA RPP 2024) · Reviewed July 2026 · Estimated
Where this repair costs more or less Estimated
The most common fix here — whole-home professional duct cleaning (full-system 2-person crew service) — across the cheapest and priciest metros we track. Your ZIP in the calculator above gives the exact local range.
Costs less
- Birmingham, AL$400–$885×0.89
- Tampa, FL$405–$905×0.90
- Orlando, FL$410–$915×0.91
Costs more
- San Jose, CA$535–$1,190×1.19
- Seattle, WA$530–$1,180×1.18
- San Francisco, CA$525–$1,165×1.16
Localization indexes from BLS OEWS May 2025 + BEA RPP 2024 across the tracked launch metros · Reviewed July 2026 · Estimated
How much is a service-call fee for ductwork & vents repair?
Most companies charge a diagnostic / service-call fee of $75–$150, often credited toward the repair if you proceed. It is separate from the repair totals above.
Base: 3 published national repair-cost guides · full source registry on the methodology page · National fee range · Reviewed July 2026 · Estimated
Is it worth repairing a ductwork & vents, or should you replace it?
A common rule of thumb: if the repair cost exceeds roughly half the price of a comparable new unit — or the appliance is past ~8 years for a ductwork & vents — replacement is often the better value. The calculator's localized totals give you the number to weigh against a new-unit quote.
Prices are metro-level estimates based on labor-cost data, not fake city precision. See the methodology for the localization method and named sources.
Reviewed by a Red Seal–certified appliance technician who also holds a Technical Safety BC gas ticket (Gas-C) and an ODS/halocarbon refrigerant ticket (CFC/HCFC/HFC).