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 Flushing
Air duct cleaning in Flushing, NY typically costs between $425 and $780 for a full residential system in a 1960s co-op or attached row house, and most jobs take four to six hours. That’s the honest range before anyone steps foot in your building. We’re Hollis Air Duct Hempstead, and we’ve worked Flushing’s co-ops, condo towers, and commercial kitchens long enough to know that a duct job here is nothing like the suburban work you’ll see in online videos. If you want a written price and a crew that can actually park near your building, call (516) 559-4917.
Flushing’s mix of pre-war apartments, attached brick row houses, and 1980s-era condo towers pushes air through some of the tightest mechanical spaces in New York City. Our Air Duct Cleaning team knows the difference between a shared riser in a co-op and an individual unit’s supply duct, which matters more here than almost anywhere else. We schedule around the 7 train rush, the restaurant prep window on Main Street, and co-op board access rules. You’ll get a time we keep and a price we honor.
Why Hollis Air Duct Hempstead Is Flushing’s Preferred Air Duct Cleaning Company
Flushing homeowners and building managers call us because we show up with the right equipment for the building, not the equipment that fits the driveway. A Rotobrush rotary brush system works in a single-family home with flex duct. It can be the wrong tool inside a 1960s-era co-op with original sheet metal risers, where a 2-inch smooth interior needs different agitation heads to avoid tearing the metal. We bring both, plus Nikro negative-air machines with HEPA filtration for source removal, because we’ve been in enough Flushing utility closets to know what we’ll find.
Our techs are background-checked and uniformed. You know who’s walking into your apartment before they arrive. Every job gets a written price before work starts, covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the cleaning doesn’t hold up for a full year, we come back and make it right at no charge, including a free second visit. That’s not a slogan. It’s in writing on every invoice.
Roy Castellanos leads our crews. He’s the name on the side of the van and the person who answers when a building manager calls about a shared riser issue that a previous company left half done. We answer phones with a live person, 24 hours a day, because Flushing operates on restaurant hours, not banker’s hours.
Styles & brands we work with
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in Flushing
Commercial Air Duct Cleaning in Flushing is a different trade than residential work. The grease load from thousands of Asian restaurants along Main Street, Union Street, and Roosevelt Avenue doesn’t stay in the kitchen. It moves through exhaust hoods and duct runs, and over years it coats every interior surface with a residue that dust and pollen stick to. Our commercial crews use negative-air containment and rotary agitation to source-remove that buildup, not just knock it loose. We schedule early morning work before restaurant prep starts, because parking a service van on Main Street after 3pm is not a realistic plan.
Restaurant and Commercial Kitchen Ducts
High-heat wok cooking generates a particulate load that behaves like a slow-burning grease film. A restaurant that fries or wok-cooks daily should have ducts inspected at least twice a year. We clean the full run: hood plenum, riser, and rooftop exhaust, because a partial cleaning leaves the fire-load problem in place. Written pricing before we start means a restaurant owner knows the full cost before the kitchen goes dark.
Condo and Co-op Common Area Systems
Mid-rise condo towers in Flushing share mechanical rooms, and the common-area supply ducts feed individual units. Building management sometimes cleans those common ducts intermittently, which leaves individual unit runs untouched for decades. We work with boards and managing agents to clean both the common risers and the unit-level runs, so a tenant’s “cleaned” apartment isn’t still circulating contaminants from the building core.
Air Duct Cleaning Services in Flushing
Air Duct Cleaning Services in Flushing have to account for a housing stock that runs from 1920s brick row houses to 1980s concrete condos. A single-family attached home on 162nd Street doesn’t have the same duct geometry as a co-op unit near Kissena Boulevard. We bring camera inspection equipment so we can see what’s inside the ducts before we choose the agitation method. That’s the difference between cleaning a duct and damaging one.
Residential Duct Cleaning
A full residential cleaning in a Flushing rowhouse or co-op unit runs $425 to $780, depending on system size and access. We use a negative-air machine to pull and capture what we dislodge, so it doesn’t blow into the living space. Furnace filter replacement is a separate line item, but we’ll check the filter and tell you if it’s undersized for the unit.
Video Inspection and Verification
Before we touch a duct, we look inside with a camera. In Flushing’s older buildings, that’s not optional. Original sheet metal ducts from the 1940s can have seams that loosen, and a camera shows us where. After cleaning, we run the camera again and show you what changed. You’ll see your own ducts before and after, not a stock photo.
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 Flushing
We run professional-grade equipment from Rotobrush for rotary agitation, Nikro for HEPA-filtered negative air, and Abatement Technologies for containment. Where filtration matters, we stock and install products from Aprilaire and Guardsman. These are the same brands commercial crews use in hospitals and labs, not hardware-store gear. We keep common replacement filters and mastic in our vans so a duct sealing patch can be done the same day we’re in your Flushing building, without a second service call.
See the difference
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AfterCommon Air Duct Cleaning Problems We See in Flushing Homes
- Grease-coating from restaurant exhaust and home wok cooking. Flushing’s restaurant density means particulate matter in ductwork is often an oily film, not dry dust. Dry brushes alone won’t remove it. We use solvent-free degreasing agents rated for HVAC contact, then HEPA extraction to pull the residue out.
- Shared riser ducts in co-ops that no one has ever cleaned. In 1960s-era buildings near Kissena Boulevard, the riser between a fourth-floor utility closet and a neighbor’s kitchen may not have been opened since installation. If a tech only cleans the visible run from the air handler, the tenant above still gets decades of buildup.
- Original sheet metal ducts from the 1920s-1940s that need different agitation tools. Smooth-metal ducts won’t respond to flex-duct brushes. Forcing the wrong head through a 2-inch interior can tear the seams. We camera-inspect first and choose the tool for the material.
- Dryer vents shared through a stack in mid-rise condo towers. In a building on Union Street, a dryer vent may run from a fifth-floor unit up through a shared riser to the roof. Cleaning only the accessible run from the lint trap leaves the long shared section full of lint, which creates backdraft problems for neighboring units.
Pricing for Air Duct Cleaning in Flushing, NY
A typical residential full-system cleaning in Flushing runs $425 to $780. Commercial kitchen duct runs start around $850 and go up based on access, run length, and grease load. Supply duct cleaning alone in a co-op unit typically runs $225 to $360, and return duct cleaning runs $180 to $300. The main factors that move your price: whether we’re working in a utility closet or a basement mechanical room, how many floors of riser we have to clean, and whether building management requires a certificate of insurance. The price is written before work starts, and it does not move when the tech is inside your unit. Call (516) 559-4917 for an exact quote. Estimates are free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Flushing
Our crews serve Flushing and the surrounding communities, including Port Washington, Jamaica, Hempstead, and Rockville Centre. If you’re in one of those areas and need air duct or dryer vent work done by a crew that arrives inside the window and leaves the site clean, call the same number: (516) 559-4917. We dispatch from our New York City office and schedule Flushing jobs locally.
Serving Flushing, NY - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Flushing 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 Flushing
The short answer is that we need building management’s approval before we touch any shared riser. In a co-op near Kissena Boulevard, the supply riser feeding multiple floors is not the unit owner’s property to clean alone. We coordinate with the managing agent, schedule access to the mechanical room, and use a Nikro negative-air machine with HEPA filtration on the riser while we work each unit’s branch duct from inside the apartment. The branch ducts are the homeowner’s responsibility; the riser is the building’s. We clean both when access allows, and if it doesn’t, we write a clear scope of work so the board knows exactly what was and wasn’t cleaned. Call (516) 559-4917 and we’ll walk you through what your building’s setup requires.
Yes, if we schedule before 9am. Main Street downtown loses street parking quickly once restaurant prep starts and the 7 train delivers commuter traffic. We book early morning slots for Flushing’s commercial corridors and advise homeowners on busier blocks to expect our van to double-park briefly with a spotter while equipment is unloaded. If your building has a loading dock or rear service entrance, that’s even better. Tell us the building when you call (516) 559-4917 and we’ll plan the access before we confirm the appointment.
Because your unit shares air movement with neighbors who do. In attached rowhouses and condo towers, cooking aerosols from adjacent units, and sometimes from a restaurant on the ground floor, migrate through wall cavities and shared returns. If the building’s common ducts haven’t been cleaned in years, that grease film accumulates and the smell radiates on warm days. In the 1960s-era co-op complexes near Kissena Boulevard, our crew found a fourth-floor utility closet where the original supply and return ducts had never been cleaned since installation; we used a Nikro HEPA-filtered negative pressure system and rotary agitation tools to source-remove decades of compacted dust and cooking residue. The smell left with the buildup. Call (516) 559-4917 for a camera inspection before you spend money on air fresheners.
Late winter, roughly February through March. Flushing’s street trees and Kissena Park push heavy pollen into the air from April through June, and coastal humidity from Flushing Bay makes condensation inside poorly insulated ducts a summer problem. If we clean in late winter, the ducts start the pollen season bare, and we can check insulation and sealing before the humid season begins. Spring cleaning is also fine, but you’ll be working against the pollen window. Book early if you want a late-winter slot. Estimates are free at (516) 559-4917.
Yes, and those are the ones we camera-inspect first. In a 1920s brick rowhouse, a dryer vent may run from a basement laundry room up through an interior wall cavity and out the roof. The run is long, often unlined in places, and impossible to see from either end. We clean the full accessible run with rotary brushes sized for the vent diameter, then we scope it with a camera to verify no lint bridge remains. If the vent has a seam gap or a crushed section, we’ll show you the footage and quote a repair as a separate line item. Call (516) 559-4917 and mention the vent run when you book.
Written by Roy Castellanos, owner at Hollis Air Duct Hempstead, serving Flushing and the surrounding New York City area.