How CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Alexandria Was Born in Alexandria
We opened this branch in 2013 because a homeowner in the Rosemont neighborhood called us in tears. She’d paid another company to clean her ducts, and they’d run a brush on a drill for twenty minutes, handed her a $340 invoice, and left. Her son still woke up congested every morning. We came out with a camera scope and showed her what they hadn’t touched: the main trunk line was still packed with gray, fibrous buildup that looked like dryer lint had been baking for a decade.
That afternoon we sat in our truck outside her brick colonial on Russell Road and made the decision. Alexandria deserved a duct cleaning company that treated the whole system, photographed every run, and named one flat price before anyone touched a tool. The parent brand, CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning, had already built that standard in other markets. We brought it here because this city, with its mix of 1920s row houses and new construction near Potomac Yard, had a specific problem: older supply lines, frequent renovations stirring debris, and too many coupon companies treating the work like a car wash.
We promised something different. Clause 1 of the Haven Standard: have it in writing. Every run, photographed. Every price, fixed. That promise is what this branch was built on.
Tomas Reyes’s Personal Connection to the Air Duct Cleaning Trade
I got into this work by accident, and then I couldn’t leave it.
Back in the early 2000s I was helping a tradesman who trained us on HVAC maintenance in Fairfax County. One July afternoon he sent me into a crawl space in Del Ray to check a disconnected flex duct. It was 96 degrees outside, probably 110 in that crawl space, and the smell hit me first: old dust, mouse droppings, and something chemical I couldn’t name. I had a headlamp and a cheap camera phone. What I saw changed how I thought about indoor air.
The duct was coated in a black, greasy layer that wasn’t dust. It was years of cooking oil vapor, skin cells, and particulate that had cycled through the system so many times it had polymerized into something almost like tar. The family living above us had three kids with asthma. They’d been breathing that for years and didn’t know it existed.
I stayed in that crawl space for two hours. My knees went numb on the gravel. I came out filthy and certain. This work matters in a way that most homeowners never see until someone shows them. The tradesman who trained us taught me to use a camera scope on every job, to let the customer see what I saw. That became my habit, then my requirement, then my standard.
What gets me out of bed now isn’t the equipment. It’s the moment in a customer’s kitchen when I hand them the tablet and they see their own ducts for the first time. The surprise. Sometimes the anger at whoever came before. Sometimes the relief that someone finally showed them the truth. If I weren’t doing this, I’d probably be fixing old motorcycles, which is what I do with my Saturdays now. Same pleasure: taking something hidden and making it run clean.
I’ve been in this trade for over ten years. Not ten years of managing. Ten years of carrying equipment into basements, attics, and crawl spaces across Northern Virginia. Alexandria’s humidity in August, when fiberglass ducts start to smell. The way 1940s galvanized steel in Old Town holds debris that newer flex duct doesn’t. These aren’t credentials. They’re memories.
Meet Tomas Reyes - The Person Behind Every Job
I’m Tomas Reyes, Owner and Founder of this branch. I hold the state license required to perform air duct cleaning in Virginia, and I trained on Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies equipment before bringing that knowledge to Alexandria homes. Every technician working under our name is required to hold the license and insurance their state requires, and we verify that before they ever enter a customer’s house.
What separates me from a corporate franchise technician is simple: I’m the one who answers when something goes wrong. Not a regional manager. Not a call center. Me. On weekends I’m usually at a bike shop in Del Ray or riding the Mount Vernon Trail. That same patience I apply to a carburetor adjustment, I apply to a complicated duct layout in a Seminary Hill split-level. My commitment to you is direct: if I wouldn’t run this system in my own mother’s house, I won’t run it in yours.
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AfterOur Promise to Alexandria Homeowners
Our values come from the Haven Standard, and we apply them literally.
Have it in writing. We learned this the hard way. Early in 2013, a homeowner in Carlyle called after another company added $200 for “extra returns” midway through the job. We don’t do that. One flat price per system, agreed before work starts, documented on the invoice you sign.
Evidence on every job. We photograph the inside of every run before and after. Not a representative sample. Every run. You get those photos on a tablet before we pack up. In Kingstowne last month, a customer told us the photos were the first proof she’d ever seen that duct cleaning was real.
No surprises. No door upsell. No “while we’re in here” pressure. If we find mold or a disconnected duct, we show you, explain it, and let you decide. The price we quoted is the price you pay.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed - Virginia requires specific credentials to perform air duct cleaning; we hold them and require them of every technician on our jobs.
- Insured & bonded - protection for your property and our team while we work in your home.
- Years of local experience - this branch has served Alexandria and surrounding communities since 2013.
- Strong local reputation - built run by run, with documentation to back up every claim we make.
These matter because you’re letting strangers into your home to work on a system that affects what your family breathes. Licensing means someone checked our qualifications. Insurance means you’re not liable if a ladder slips or a tool scratches a floor. Experience means we’ve seen Alexandria’s specific duct configurations before: the short runs in Del Ray bungalows, the complex branch lines in newer Fairfax County construction, the aging galvanized steel that still carries air in parts of Arlington. We know what to expect, and we know how to document what we find.
Rooted in Alexandria
This branch operates Monday through Friday, 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM, and Saturday and Sunday, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. We’re not pretending to be from somewhere else. Our trucks carry Virginia plates. We’ve worked in the Seminary Hill basements, the Potomac Yard condos, the brick colonials of Rosemont, and the ramblers near Hollin Hills. We know what the pollen season does to intake filters in this region, and we’ve cleaned ducts after the renovations that keep reshaping Old Town. CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning is the standard we work to. Alexandria is the place we do it.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Alexandria, serving Alexandria since 2013.