Columbia City, King County
For a modest detached house, Columbia City air duct cleaning starts at $525. How many registers and returns the house has, how long the trunk lines are, a basement or crawl space that is hard to work in, and a second furnace all raise that floor. Before any brush goes in, the technician walks the house, counts the registers and gives you a fixed figure, so the number on the invoice is the number you agreed to.
Typical investment
From $525
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$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
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Pick what you're seeing at your Columbia City home — we'll point you to the right fix.
What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Columbia City homes.
Level 1: every reachable component checked, with a Level 2 camera run added if something stays unclear
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Full-height brushing with a head chosen for clay tile or metal liner
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Photo assessment sorting surface wear from structural failure
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Video survey and flue measurements taken before ordering anything
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Flue-by-flue measurements, or the whole crown for a multi-flue hood
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Cleaning and testing of the burner, pilot assembly and igniter
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
By 1920, according to the city's context statement for the north end of the Rainier Valley, Columbia City and its surroundings were mostly built out in single-family houses, with shops lined up along Rainier Avenue. Homes of that generation were laid out around stoves and fireplaces, long before anyone ran sheet-metal ducts under the floors. Where an older house has forced air today, the system arrived after the fact, and the runs we open sometimes show more than one era of work: a newer trunk joined to an older branch, a return cut into a floor in a different decade, a register that leads nowhere.
Every air duct cleaning we do in Columbia City includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowHeating fuel in the 98118 ZIP area splits two ways, by the census count: roughly 54 percent of occupied homes rely chiefly on electric heat and roughly 40 percent on piped gas, and the survey does not say which of them push air through ducts. A gas furnace almost always does. When that furnace starts in October after a summer of open windows, whatever settled in the ducts goes out through every register at once. The other trigger is smoke. The regional clean air agency logged a 2024 with no wildfire smoke episodes at all, but for a smoky summer it recommends shutting one room and filtering its air, with a HEPA unit or a box fan strapped to a furnace filter rated MERV-13 or higher. A dust-caked return duct works against that effort.
We open the furnace, find every register and return, and agree the price with you before work starts.
We cap the registers and hook a high-volume collector to the trunk, which keeps the ducts under suction.
Rotary brushes or compressed-air whips loosen the dust in each branch, working back toward the collector.
Covers go back on, the blower compartment is vacuumed, and you see the photos of the runs before and after.
What this work is quoted at for Columbia City homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Columbia City | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Air Duct Cleaning | From $525 | 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 Columbia City. 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.
Columbia City is a former streetcar town in Seattle's Rainier Valley, founded in 1891 and annexed in 1907, with vernacular houses on the side streets of a brick commercial core, in a district whose buildings mostly date from 1891 to 1937.
Columbia CityKing County, WA · 47.560, -122.287
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.
Only if there is a separate ducted system, such as a heat pump or a ventilation unit. Electric baseboards and wall heaters have no ducts to clean; we would tell you that on the phone rather than send a truck.
No calendar rule applies. The usual triggers are a renovation, a purchase where nobody knows when the ducts were last done, or dust and odor that come back within days of a filter change.
Yes, when both are booked together. Chimney inspections are $99 plus tax apiece, credited to whatever chimney work you then approve.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
