Air duct cleaning in Vienna.
Duct and dryer vent cleaning for Vienna homes, in the town and on the county side.
Whole Home Air Duct Cleaning is $598, regularly $798, for a home up to 2,000 square feet on one system.
Camera photos of the inside of your ducts come before any price.
- Camera photos first
- Priced by the system, in writing
- Dedicated HVAC team
Get your duct price in writing
A 1955 Vienna house and a 2015 one are different duct jobs.
Inside the town line about two in ten homes went up before 1960, and many of those got central air years after they were built. So a 1950s Vienna system is often two generations of ductwork joined together: the original runs and floor returns from the furnace, and newer duct pushed through the attic for the air conditioning. The old floor returns are where the dust settles first, and they’re where we start.
Basements are the other Vienna story. If yours was finished recently, and inside the town a basement renovation goes through the Town’s own review on top of the Fairfax County permit, the system was probably running while the drywall was sanded. That dust goes straight into the returns, and it shows up clearly in the camera photos.
About a quarter of the town’s homes went up after 2000. Those run flexible duct off sheet-metal trunks, often on two systems, with the upstairs air handler in the attic. That attic unit is the one whose filter gets forgotten, and its returns show it.
On the county side, Wolf Trap is nearly all single-family houses, mostly from the 1970s and 80s. In a Wolf Trap house from the late 1980s the hallway return tells the story: it pulls from the whole floor, so its grille and the first few feet behind it are where the camera finds the most.
What the ducts look like across Vienna.
Census figures for each place, and what that usually means when we open the system. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What we usually find |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf Trap | 1980 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, about 7 in 10 | 1980s and 90s houses: sheet-metal trunks, flexible runs and one big return. |
| Vienna | 1972 | single-family houses, about 8 in 10 | gas, about 8 in 10 | Houses from before 1980: original sheet metal, and returns built into the floor framing. |
Vienna houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
The Town of Vienna
Nearly the whole town sits in 22180, which it shares with county streets toward Dunn Loring and Merrifield.
- Median home built1972 Census
- Built before 1980about 7 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 3 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 8 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 8 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 2 in 10 Census
- Houses that age often have returns built into the floor framing, which pull dust from the whole floor. We clean returns first.
- Bigger single-family houses often run two systems, and each is its own cleaning.
The county side, around Wolf Trap
Vienna mail outside the town line: Wolf Trap and the Tysons edge in 22182, the Oakton side of 22181, Dunn Loring. The figures are Wolf Trap’s, the biggest piece.
What duct cleaning costs in Vienna.
The same price book as our air duct cleaning page, for a home up to 2,000 square feet on one system. We look first: the tech takes a cover off, puts a camera in and photographs what’s in your ducts, then shows you, so you see their current condition before you decide. No charge, including when yours are fine. Then you get the price in writing, then we clean.
- Return Air Duct Cleaning$298
- Whole Home Air Duct Cleaning$598, regularly $798
- Whole Home Air Duct Cleaning with ActivePure Air Scrubber$1,798
- Dryer Vent Cleaning, on its own$298
- Dryer Vent Cleaning, added to a duct cleaning$199
A second system bills at 90 percent of the tier, because it’s isolated and cleaned on its own. The calculator on our air duct cleaning page does the arithmetic for a bigger house.
The dryer vent cleaning is the yearly one, and it’s in Comfort+ membership at $199 a year along with a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection, a heating maintenance visit and a cooling maintenance visit.
When duct cleaning is worth it in Vienna.
The house is a rebuild
A new Vienna house built on an older lot looks spotless, but its ducts were open to sawdust and drywall sanding for months. If nobody cleaned them at closing, nobody has.
Nobody remembers the last time
Which is most houses. Nobody opens a duct, so it never comes up until somebody looks.
You just finished a renovation
Drywall dust goes wherever the air goes, and the system was running while they sanded.
What the county says about dryer vents.
Town of Vienna
The town’s own fire station, Station 2 on Center Street, is one of Fairfax County Fire and Rescue’s, and the county’s advice holds inside the town line: clean the lint out of the dryer vent pipe once a year, and sooner when clothes start taking longer to dry. Source.
How to pick the best duct cleaning company in Vienna.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Does the written price list every system in the house?
A rebuilt Vienna house often has a system for each floor. The price should say which ones it covers, so the basement or attic unit doesn’t turn into an extra on the day.
Do they look before they quote?
Ask whether they’ll put a camera in and show you photos of what’s inside first. A price given at the door, sight unseen, is a price for the average house, not yours.
Do they clean the returns, or only the supply vents?
The returns are the big grilles that pull air back to the system, and they’re the side that collects dust. A job that only counts supply registers leaves half the system alone.
Is the price for the whole system, in writing?
Ask what it covers: every supply and return, the main trunk, the blower compartment. The $59 mailbox coupon covers getting somebody into the attic.
What our customers say.
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Duct cleaning questions from Vienna.
Do you clean ducts in Vienna houses with two or three systems?
Yes. Each system is cleaned on its own: we open its air handler, clean its supplies and returns, then move to the next. You get camera photos from each one, and the written price names them, so you know before we start which systems are in it.
Is duct cleaning any different inside the Town of Vienna?
Not the cleaning, and it needs no permit on either side of the line. The town line changes who sells your water and who reviews a renovation, not what a duct cleaning costs: $598 for Whole Home Air Duct Cleaning on one system up to 2,000 square feet.
Can the dryer vent be done at the same visit?
Yes, $199 added to a duct cleaning. In the older Vienna houses the dryer is usually down in the basement with a short run out the wall; in the newer ones the laundry tends to be upstairs, and the run to the outside is longer.
How much does air duct cleaning cost in Vienna?
$598 for Whole Home Air Duct Cleaning, regularly $798, on a home up to 2,000 square feet with one system, $298 for Return Air Duct Cleaning, and $1,798 with an ActivePure air scrubber installed. A dryer vent is $298 on its own or $199 added to a duct cleaning.
Is it worth it?
Sometimes, and the camera photos are how you find out. If the duct walls are furred over, cleaning takes that out of the loop your air runs through, and the before and after are obvious. If the metal is clean, it isn’t worth doing and we’ll say so. The EPA’s position is that routine cleaning hasn’t been shown to prevent health problems, so we don’t sell it that way.
Duct cleaning in the towns next door.
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- Air duct cleaning in Falls Church
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