Supply & Return Duct Cleaning in Boerne
Targeted source removal for the runs that actually need it.
01Boerne — the housing record
What Boerne actually has behind its walls.
Before anyone quotes a duct job here, this is the stock they are quoting against. It is public Census data, and it is different in every city we cover.
- Housing units
- 7,816
- Built pre-1980
- 6%
- Built 2000s
- 42%
- Built since 2010
- 37%
- Gas heat
- 19%
- Electric heat
- 78%
- Single-family
- 70%
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2023), tables B25034, B25040 and B25024. Percentages are rounded and describe the city, not your house.
What that means for ducts
New-build ductwork
Roughly 37% of Boerne's homes were built since 2010. New does not mean clean: the commonest thing we pull out of a five-year-old system is the construction phase itself — drywall fines, sawdust, insulation fiber — plus builder-grade flex that was kinked or crushed on the day and has been throttling that run ever since. Photographs matter more here, not less.
That is a reading of the city’s stock, not a diagnosis of your home. Which of it applies to you is exactly what the camera settles — and why we would rather run one than quote from a postcode.
02Working in Boerne
The part that changes from street to street.
Nearly everything in Boerne is new by Texas standards. The town's housing is dominated by subdivisions raised over the past twenty-five years, with a very large share finished since 2010, so duct systems here are rarely dirty from decades of use. They are dirty, when they are, because of how they were built. Hill Country lots get cut into limestone and caliche, and that dust is fine, abrasive and everywhere on a jobsite. It settles into open boots during framing, then mixes with drywall sanding residue before the registers ever go on. The second Boerne fact worth planning around is heat. Almost nobody here burns gas; homes run heat pumps and strip heat. Nothing combusts, which strikes venting and the heat exchanger off a Boerne inspection before it begins and leaves the indoor coil as the thing worth opening. And Kendall County sits inside dense Ashe juniper, which makes filtration, rather than scrubbing, the honest winter answer for most households.
the Cibolo Center for Conservation
- Hill Country Village ·
- Esperanza ·
- Cordillera Ranch ·
- Historic Main Street
County
Kendall County
Same standard in Boerne as everywhere else.
Source removal to the NADCA ACR standard, a written quote before anything is touched, and camera photographs of your own runs before and after. We are not going to re-argue that on every city page — it is set out once, in full, on the service page.
- Camera confirmation of which runs need work before you approve anything
- Negative-pressure source removal on the affected trunks and branches
- After photos of every cleaned run
- A written note of the runs verified clean and left alone
- From
- $199
- On site
- 2–3 hours
- Scope
- 4 lines
Prices shown are starting estimates and may change with the condition, access, and scope we find on site. Only a written quote from an on-site visit is a price we commit to.
03Supply & Return Duct Cleaning — in this stock
Cleaning a system that is still carrying its own build.
A post-2010 system is usually not dirty in the way people picture. What comes out is the construction phase — drywall fines, sawdust, insulation fiber — that was pulled into open ducts before the house was ever occupied, plus whatever a kinked flex run has been collecting behind the crimp. That is a different cleaning: shorter, more targeted, and far more dependent on the before-and-after photographs, because the difference is not something you can smell.
How do you know cleaning part of the system is enough?
The camera decides, not a hunch. We scope the whole system first; if debris is concentrated in the returns or specific branches, we clean those and document the rest as verified clean.
Why are return ducts dirtier than supply ducts?
Because they run upstream of the filter. Returns pull raw room air — dust, pet hair, fibers, pollen tracked in on shoes — straight into the ductwork before anything filters it.
04Book in Boerne
Three fields, and a person calls you back.
Tell us the ZIP and we will tell you what your system likely needs — including, sometimes, that it needs nothing yet. Nothing is charged until you have approved a written quote.
05Questions
Asked in Boerne, answered straight.
How do you know cleaning part of the system is enough?
The camera decides, not a hunch. We scope the whole system first; if debris is concentrated in the returns or specific branches, we clean those and document the rest as verified clean. If footage shows buildup everywhere, we'll say a full cleaning is the honest recommendation — with the photos to prove it.
Why are return ducts dirtier than supply ducts?
Because they run upstream of the filter. Returns pull raw room air — dust, pet hair, fibers, pollen tracked in on shoes — straight into the ductwork before anything filters it. Supplies only see air the filter has already scrubbed. That asymmetry is why return-side cleaning is often the smartest partial job.
We just built in a Boerne subdivision. Should the ducts be cleaned before we move in?
Worth an inspection, certainly. Hill Country builds cut through limestone and caliche, and that dust is fine and abrasive. Boots left open during framing collect it alongside drywall sanding residue. If your builder capped the openings and the system looks clean, we will say so and charge you for nothing further.
Almost every house here runs electric heat. What does that change about duct work?
It removes combustion from the equation. Nothing burns and nothing vents, so those two checks come off the list entirely. The questions become moisture and dust instead. Heat pumps and strip heat move air across an indoor coil that condenses water, and that coil plus the first stretch of supply plenum is where Kendall County problems tend to start.
Cedar season is severe out here. Will cleaning the ducts help?
Only with what has already settled. Kendall County sits in thick Ashe juniper and counts here run higher than in town, but ducts recirculate what is already indoors rather than generating it. Sealing the return side and matching a good filter to your blower does the real work through January and February.
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