Genesee, King County
Air duct cleaning in Genesee is priced from $535. The final figure depends on how many supply and return registers the house has, whether a second heating unit is involved, and how easily the main trunk lines can be reached. It only applies to a house with ducted heat. A home warmed by baseboard heaters, wall units or a ductless heat pump has nothing for us to clean, and we would rather say so on the phone than send a truck.
Typical investment
From $535
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Genesee homes.
Level 1 examination of everything reachable, with a Level 2 camera pass when the reachable parts leave a question open
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Full-height brushing of the flue with a head sized to its shape and material
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Assessment of the stack from roofline to crown, with a photo of each defect
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Camera survey and measurement of the existing flue before anything is ordered
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Measurement of each flue tile, or of the whole crown for a multi-flue cap
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Burner, pilot assembly and firebox cleaned; logs or media put back in the layout the manual shows
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
By the Census estimate for 2020-2024, some 61.3 percent of households in the ZIP code area Genesee shares with Alki, Admiral and north Seaview heat mainly with electricity. A good number of those houses were never fitted with ducts. Gas furnaces account for about 31.3 percent and fuel oil about 4.7 percent, and those furnaces are where duct systems are found. In an older house a duct network may have outlived two or three furnaces and a switch from oil to gas, with sections added or rerouted at each change.
Fuel oil still heats between 4.7 and 5.2 percent of occupied homes across three West Seattle ZIP code areas, Genesee's among them, against 2.9 percent for Seattle as a whole, according to the Census survey for 2020-2024. That leftover share says something about what used to be in many basements on this hill.
When an oil furnace was swapped for gas, the new unit was usually connected to the existing ducts. Any soot the old burner pushed through the system stayed in the metal. HistoryLink's record of Genesee Hill School, opened in 1949 after parents petitioned in 1945, dates the wave of building that many of those first furnaces belonged to. For a duct system of that age we photograph the inside before cleaning, so you can see whether a dark film is present and how much of it came out.
Every air duct cleaning we do in Genesee includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowWhat builds up in ducts is mostly ordinary: household dust, pet hair, fine grit from a remodel run while the furnace was on, and debris that fell through floor registers. Older systems that once burned oil can carry a dark film. Where a run passes through a crawl space and a joint has separated, insulation and soil get drawn in. Cleaning removes that load; it does not repair a leak, so we photograph any run that is crushed, disconnected or open and tell you where it is.
The Seattle Landslide Study describes a layer of sand resting on clay that runs along the west-facing slopes of the peninsula, and explains that water emerges as springs wherever that boundary meets the surface of the hillsides. It dates most of the city's slides to the wettest months: 45 percent in January alone, 86 percent from December through March. WeatherSpark, for its part, puts Seattle's wetter season at October 10 to April 30.
A hillside house sitting on wet ground often has a damp crawl space, and in many homes with forced air that is where the ducts run. A separated joint or a torn return in a damp crawl space pulls moist, earthy air into the system, and the smell shows up at the registers after a rainy week. When we find that, we say so plainly: cleaning will remove what has collected, but the joint needs sealing and the crawl space needs to stay dry, or the same debris will return.
We locate the furnace, the trunks and every register, and take pictures inside a few runs so you see the starting point.
A high-volume vacuum is attached at the trunk and the system is held under suction for the whole job.
Brushes and air whips go in at each register and push debris back toward the vacuum, supply side first, then the returns.
The blower compartment and plenum are vacuumed; we do not open sealed electrical or gas components.
Openings are sealed, grilles go back, and you get the after pictures plus a note of any leaking or damaged runs.
What this work is quoted at for Genesee homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Genesee | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Air Duct Cleaning | From $535 | Whole HVAC system — trunks, branches and every register |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | 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 Genesee. 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.
Genesee is a hill neighborhood between SW Genesee and SW Charlestown streets, from 46th to 56th Avenues SW, with homes from before and after World War II, about 23% of those in its ZIP code area built before 1940 and 16% in the 1940s and 1950s.
GeneseeKing County, WA · 47.564, -122.372
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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.
We do not promise savings. A clean system and a fresh filter help airflow; sealing leaky joints is what saves energy, and we point those out.
Most single-furnace homes take half a day. A second system or a tight crawl space adds time.
No. The $99 plus tax inspection covers chimneys only. Duct cleaning is quoted and billed on its own.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
