Wallingford, King County
Duct cleaning for a Wallingford home is priced from $525, a figure that assumes a single furnace serving one main floor. The quote grows with the system, not with the square footage on the listing: how many supply branches there are, how many returns, whether the trunk can be entered from an unfinished basement or only through holes we cut and then seal. Old gravity-style ductwork with large round pipes, where it survives, is slower to clean than modern sheet-metal runs. We walk the system before pricing it.
Typical investment
From $525
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Wallingford homes.
A Level 1 review of everything reachable, raised to a Level 2 camera scan when a question stays open
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The whole flue brushed, using heads picked for the liner's size and shape
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A photo assessment that distinguishes surface wear from structural damage
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Camera survey and measurements taken before any liner is chosen
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Measurement of each flue, or of the crown when a single cap will span several
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Glass removed, cleaned and checked for a sound gasket
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Two things are known about how Wallingford-area homes are heated, both at the level of ZIP area 98103. Out of every 1,000 occupied homes, 567 rely chiefly on electricity and 396 on utility gas. And fuel oil remains the main heat in about 350 households, 1.3 percent. Citywide, about 10,600 Seattle homes still heat with oil. A furnace, gas or oil, generally pushes its heat through ducts, which baseboards do not need. In a neighborhood where 45.9 percent of housing structures predate 1939, by the figure Wikipedia reports, a duct system may well be younger than the house around it.
Every air duct cleaning we do in Wallingford includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowSummer has become part of the indoor-air calendar. Washington spent August and September 2026 under a wildfire emergency and a statewide burn ban, both proclaimed by the Governor on August 1 with over a thousand fires and some 425,000 burned acres already on the books. County health officials at Public Health – Seattle & King County work from the AQI scale when smoke arrives; the 101-150 band is where their early warnings begin. A forced-air system can help or hurt on such days. With a clean return side and a good filter it scrubs indoor air on each pass. With dusty ducts and a clogged filter it stirs up what has settled.
Every branch, return and access point is located and the furnace cabinet opened.
Our collector hooks onto the main trunk; every register except the one being worked is blanked.
Air whips and skipper balls push debris toward the collector from each register in turn.
Openings are closed airtight and you receive photos from inside the main runs.
What this work is quoted at for Wallingford homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Wallingford | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Air Duct Cleaning | From $525 | Whole HVAC system — trunks, branches and every register |
| Chimney Sweep | $209–$459 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Relining | From $1,900 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Wallingford. The exact figure is set on site after a $99 inspection (credited toward the job if you go ahead), and you approve it before any work starts.
Wallingford is a hillside neighborhood north of Lake Union, annexed to Seattle in 1891, on Lake Union, with bungalows and box houses, most of them built between 1906 and the end of the 1920s.
WallingfordKing County, WA · 47.661, -122.334
Before and after
Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
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Four steps, each one on paper — so you always know what happens next.
Choose a genuine opening on the crew's calendar. Confirmation is immediate.
Liner, crown, cap, flashing and masonry examined in order — each finding photographed.
One document, plain numbers, covering only the work your chimney genuinely needs.
The repair is completed, then handed over with before-and-after photos of every item.
The method is the same. Soot from a poorly tuned burner can be present in the supply side, and we show you if it is. Work on the furnace itself is a permit matter in Seattle and a job for a heating contractor.
It removes the dust already in the system. Smoke is a filtration problem, in the Clean Air Agency's telling: run HEPA or MERV-13 media, pick one room to keep clean, shut whatever draws outdoor air in.
Several hours at least, and longer when trunks must be opened in several places. We give a time estimate with the price.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
