Duct Cleaning
Duct Cleaning After a Fire
Warrior cleans duct systems after a fire has run smoke through them. An inspection camera goes down the supply and return runs before anything is priced, so the estimate covers what's actually inside them. We answer around the clock and respond within an hour.
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What the system carried
Where a Loss Ends Up Inside the Ductwork
A house has one air system and it reaches every room. With a fire burning and the system running, the returns keep pulling room air in while there's smoke in it, and the supply side pushes that air back out at every register. That's how a fire in one room leaves soot in a bedroom two doors down.
Soot doesn't stay in the air. It settles on the inside of the duct wall, along runs that pass through ceilings, walls and attics where nobody looks. The grille in the ceiling shows none of it, and neither does the air coming out of it. An inspection camera in the run does: which runs carry residue, and how far into them it went.
Inside the job
What a Duct Cleaning Covers
The work follows the runs themselves: the sheet metal and flex duct behind each grille.
Supply and Return Runs
The ductwork behind the grille is what gets worked: the sheet metal and flex duct carrying air to and from each room.
The Inspection Camera
A camera goes down the runs before a price exists, so the estimate is built on what the camera found in them.
Rotary Brush and Agitation
A rotary brush sized to the run works the duct wall, so what's stuck to the metal comes off it.
HEPA Vacuum Extraction
What the brush loosens gets pulled out with HEPA vacuums, one run at a time.
When It's Growth
Growth inside a run is remediation work. It's scoped and priced as remediation, and Warrior does that work in house.
Which Runs Carry It
Not every run in a house holds the same thing after a loss. The camera shows which ones do, and those are the ones quoted.
After a Fire
A system that was running while there was smoke in the house belongs to the fire job, and the same crew handles both.
The Written Estimate
What the camera found is written into the estimate, and where there's a claim that scope goes to your carrier.
How we work
From the Call to the Last Run
The order is fixed, and the decision that shapes this job comes early: what the camera finds settles whether there's a cleaning to do at all.
You Call
Tell us what happened: a fire, or something turned up in the system during other work. The response comes within an hour, at any hour.
The On-Site Visit
Someone comes out and looks at the system and at what the loss did to the house. The visit and the estimate cost nothing.
The Camera Goes In
The inspection scope runs the supply and return lines, so what's inside them is known before a number is attached to it.
The Finding Decides
Soot is a cleaning. Growth is remediation and gets scoped that way. Clean runs end it there.
Brushing the Runs
Rotary brush and agitation tools work the duct walls on every run the camera put in the scope.
Vacuuming Out
HEPA vacuums pull the loosened material out of the system, working through the runs the estimate named.
When it's indicated
When a Duct Cleaning Is Indicated
Warrior quotes a duct cleaning when the system carried something. Two things put it in that state: a fire that ran smoke through it, and growth that's been found and remediated somewhere the system draws air from. The camera settles which one it is, and how much of the system it reached.
The fire case is the common one. A system running during a fire moves soot everywhere the ducts reach, so the ductwork gets cleaned along with the rooms. The second case follows a mold job. Once the remediation is finished, the ductwork gets cleaned as part of that work.
A system that scopes clean is left alone. If the camera shows bare metal down the runs, there's nothing to quote and the estimate says so. If it shows growth, the cleaning ends there and a different job begins.
Call (903) 993-5663What Puts a System on the List
- A fire anywhere in the house while the heating or cooling was running
- Soot on the ceiling or the wall above a supply register
- Grit landing on furniture under the registers after a fire
- A smoke smell that comes back each time the system cycles on
- A system that kept running while the fire was being put out
- Debris visible through a return grille after the loss
- Growth found and remediated somewhere the system draws air from
- None of that, and a camera showing clean runs: we leave the ductwork alone
Related services
If the Duct Work Turns Into Something Else
A scope that turns up growth stops being a cleaning.
Mold Remediation
Read this if growth has turned up anywhere in the house: how it's contained and removed, and what the job covers.
Learn MoreMold in the HVAC System
Read this if the growth is inside the system itself. Remediating a duct system is a different job from cleaning one.
Learn MoreRebuilding After Mold Work
Read this if the remediation is behind you and you want to know what goes back: drywall, trim, paint and flooring, by the same crew.
Learn MoreSTILL GOT QUESTIONS?
Frequently Asked Questions
The camera settles most of these for your particular system. Call (903) 993-5663 and we'll come look at it.
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