A tenant just moved out
Close to six in ten Arlington homes are rented. Between leases the rooms are empty and nothing is pushed against the registers, which makes it the easiest week to see what’s inside the ducts and clean them.
Arlington, Virginia
Air duct cleaning in Arlington.
Whole Home Air Duct Cleaning is $598, regularly $798, for a home up to 2,000 square feet on one system.
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Air duct and dryer vent cleaning across Arlington, from Cape Cods to condo towers. We put a camera in and photograph what’s in yours before any price.
- Camera photos first
- Priced by the system, in writing
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One of our technicians at a floor register, running the vacuum hose into the duct below it.
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What it costs
What duct cleaning costs in Arlington.
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, a year of Comfort+ membership included
$199, normally $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.
What’s different in Arlington
In Arlington, the ductwork is usually younger than the house.
The median owner-occupied home in Arlington went up in 1960, and plenty are older: Craftsman bungalows and four-squares in Maywood, 1920s and 30s houses in Ashton Heights and Lyon Village, Cape Cods in Maywood and Cherrydale. Few houses of that age were built with central air. If yours has it, the ductwork came later, fitted into closets, attics and the knee walls behind a Cape Cod’s upstairs bedrooms, often a mix of old sheet metal and newer flex.
So two Arlington houses on the same street can be completely different jobs. A run that turns three corners to reach a dormer bedroom, or a return cut into a closet floor, changes how long it takes and what it needs, and the camera photos show you which kind of system you have before you pay for anything.
Fairlington is its own case. Its 3,449 garden apartments and townhouses went up from 1942 to 1944, and central heat and air conditioning heat pumps went in when they were sold as condos in the 1970s. Any ductwork in a Fairlington unit is a 1970s addition or newer, a generation younger than the brick around it.
The towers by the Metro are the other end of it. More than half of Arlington’s homes are in buildings of ten units or more, where the system is a small air handler or fan coil serving one unit. If the dryer vent in your building runs to a shared shaft, that part is usually the association’s, and we’ll tell you what we see in it.
By the numbers
Arlington houses, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Arlington
- Median home built1960 Census
- Built before 1980about 5 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 3 in 10 Census
- Most homes arecondo and apartment buildings, about 6 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 6 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 6 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.
- Condo systems are small and quick to clean; anything shared through the building belongs to the association.
When it’s worth doing
When duct cleaning is worth it in Arlington.
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.
The dryer vent, locally
What the county says about dryer vents.
Arlington County
The Arlington County Fire Department’s home fire safety checklist includes this question: is your clothes dryer vent clean and properly installed? Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who cleans them
How to pick the best duct cleaning company in Arlington.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Can they reach ducts that were added after the house was built?
In a 1920s or 30s Arlington house the ducts take odd routes, through closets and knee walls and up from the basement. Ask how they’ll get at the runs to the top floor, not just the registers you can see.
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.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
What our customers say.
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Aaron Kwon came to clean the air ducts, and he was great. He was thorough and careful and extremely polite–just a nice fellow. The office staff at SwiftPro is also wonderful. I am grateful for their splendid service.
Where we work
Air duct cleaning in every Northern Virginia town we serve
Next door to Arlington: Falls Church, Alexandria, Dunn Loring, Annandale and McLean.
Fairfax County
Arlington County
Loudoun County
Prince William County
Fauquier County
Stafford County
Questions
Duct cleaning questions from Arlington.
Do you clean ducts in Fairlington?
Yes. Fairlington’s systems went in during the 1970s condo conversion or later, so the system belongs to the unit, separate from the building. Tell us whether you’re in a garden apartment or a townhouse when you book, and whether the air handler is in a closet or the attic.
Is my 1920s Arlington house worth a duct cleaning?
Sometimes very much, sometimes not at all, and the photos decide it. Old sheet metal that has been moving air for decades can be furred over, while a flex run added ten years ago may look fine. We photograph both and tell you which is which before you spend anything.
Can you clean the ducts upstairs in a Cape Cod?
Yes. In a 1930s or 40s Cape Cod the upstairs runs usually climb through a closet or hide behind the knee walls, so we photograph them from the registers and, where there’s a hatch, from behind the knee wall. If the upstairs has its own small system in the attic, it gets cleaned as a second system.
How much does air duct cleaning cost in Arlington?
$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. Dryer vent cleaning is $199 added to a duct cleaning; on its own it’s $199, normally $298, with a year of Comfort+ membership included.
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.
Ready when you are
Camera photos first, at no charge.
Call, or send the form at the top. The camera photos come first and cost nothing, including when yours turn out to be fine.
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
4230 Lafayette Center Dr N, Chantilly, VA 20151
44679 Endicott Dr, Suite 211, Ashburn, VA 20147
Virginia Class A contractor license #2705192276
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is a licensed, BBB Accredited (A rating), independently owned heating, cooling and plumbing company in Chantilly, serving Arlington and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews on Google, Angi, Yelp, the BBB and Facebook. SwiftPro maintains a dedicated HVAC team and a dedicated plumbing team.
From SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing in Chantilly. Housing figures are the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024, for each place named; permit, water and sewer facts link to each office’s own page and were checked in September and October 2026.