What is apartment building duct cleaning?
Apartment building duct cleaning is air duct cleaning for a multi-unit building: the supply and return ducts, vents and registers that serve each apartment, and the shared runs of any common heating and cooling system. Your Neighbor's Air Care cleans them unit by unit, so every apartment on the list is actually done and photographed, instead of a few units standing in for the whole building.
Your Neighbor's Air Care cleans the ductwork only. It does not install, repair or service boilers, furnaces, air conditioners, coils or thermostats, and it is not a building contractor.
Which buildings does Your Neighbor's Air Care work in?
Your Neighbor's Air Care cleans ducts in two-family and multi-family houses, garden apartments, co-op and condo buildings and rental buildings with forced-air systems, from the Hudson Valley down to Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. The work is booked by whoever is responsible for the building: an owner, a landlord, a property manager, a co-op or condo board, or a superintendent on their behalf. A tenant who wants the ducts in one apartment cleaned can book that unit too, with the landlord's say-so.
How does Your Neighbor's Air Care clean an apartment building, unit by unit?
Each apartment gets the same full cleaning a house gets from Your Neighbor's Air Care:
- A camera look inside the ducts of the unit first
- Registers and grilles taken off for washing
- A negative-air machine connected, so the dust travels to the machine, not into the apartment
- Rotary brushes through each supply and return run in the unit
- Registers and grilles washed, the boot behind each one cleaned, everything refitted
- Before and after photographs, sent to the owner or manager
How is a building job planned with the owner, the manager and the tenants?
A building job goes best when it starts with a short list: how many units, which ones, how the system is laid out and how each apartment can be reached. Agreeing the order of the units and the days with whoever manages the building in advance means tenants can be told which day their apartment is on. Your Neighbor's Air Care's line is open from nine in the morning until nine at night, seven days a week, and the calls, the quote and the written report can be in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Georgian or Czech, which helps in buildings where many tenants or the super would rather speak another language.
What does the owner or manager get at the end?
Your Neighbor's Air Care hands back records the building can keep:
- Before and after photographs of the work, for the owner or manager
- A written summary of what was done and anything worth watching, such as a crushed run or a loose boot
If the camera shows a unit's ducts do not need cleaning, Your Neighbor's Air Care says so.
What decides the quote for an apartment building?
Your Neighbor's Air Care gives a free quote before any work starts. For a building it depends on the number of units, how many supply and return runs each unit has, whether there are shared systems, and how easy the ducts are to reach. A message with the unit count and a few photos of a typical apartment's registers and system is usually enough to start. The general factors are in the guide what affects the cost of air duct cleaning.
Can the same visit cover bathroom fans and dryer vents?
Yes. Apartment buildings often have a bathroom exhaust fan in every unit and a shared laundry room, and Your Neighbor's Air Care cleans both. Ask for bathroom exhaust fan cleaning and laundry room dryer vent cleaning in the same quote, and one set of visits covers the building.
Call for a free quote. Tell Your Neighbor's Air Care what the house has and what it is
doing, and the free quote comes before any work starts.
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