How CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Houston Was Born in Houston
Back in 2013, we were working HVAC service calls across Harris County when we walked into a house in the Heights that changed everything. A woman had paid another company $89 for a “whole house duct cleaning” the week before, and she was still waking up congested every morning. We popped a vent cover with our inspection camera and found packed dust, a dead mouse in the return, and a shop vac hose mark at exactly one register - the only one they’d bothered to touch. She’d been sold a noise, not a cleaning.
That same week, CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning was looking for someone to bring their system to Houston. We’d already been using Rotobrush and Nikro equipment on our own, already photographing every job because we couldn’t stand not knowing what we’d actually accomplished. The fit was obvious. We signed on not to start something from scratch, but to bring a standard here that didn’t exist yet - flat price per system, written before we started, every run photographed before and after. No more $89 bait and no more guessing whether the work got done. Houston’s humidity, its pollen cycles, its older ranch homes with original ductwork - this city needed someone who’d treat it like home, not a territory to canvass.
Tomas Reyes’s Personal Connection to the Air Duct Cleaning Trade
Tomas Reyes didn’t stumble into this work. He was the kid who took apart his mother’s window unit at fourteen because it smelled like mildew, then spent three hours reassembling it when she wasn’t looking. The first time he stuck a borescope into a supply duct and saw what actually lived in there - the gray mat of skin cells and construction debris, the fungal bloom where a trunk line dipped - he felt something shift. It wasn’t disgust. It was recognition. Someone lived in this house. Someone breathed this.
For over ten years now, he’s been crawling attics in August when the plywood hits 140 degrees, lying on his back in Sugar Land crawl spaces where the soil smells like clay and groundwater, fitting his shoulders between joists in Meyerland homes that have flooded twice and grown something in the ductboard no homeowner could reach. The work means showing people what they couldn’t see and leaving proof they can hold. Tomas keeps a photo on his phone from 2015: a return plenum in Bellaire, before and after, the difference so stark the homeowner cried. Not because it was emotional. Because she’d been breathing that for eleven years and nobody had ever shown her.
If he weren’t doing this, he’d probably be fixing old motorcycles or teaching himself to weld - something with his hands that produces a visible result. The through-line is the same. He can’t stand unfinished business.
Meet Tomas Reyes - The Person Behind Every Job
Tomas Reyes is Owner and Founder of CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Houston. He’s been in the trade since before this branch opened, trained first in residential HVAC installation, then specialized in indoor air quality and duct remediation. He holds the state license required for this work in Texas, carries the insurance and bonding that lets him send crews into strangers’ homes with confidence, and has spent years learning how Houston’s particular problems - coastal humidity, post-Harvey mold patterns, the gumbo clay that shifts foundations and cracks duct seals - show up differently than anywhere else.
What separates Tomas from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he’s the one who answers when something goes wrong. He lives in this service area. His kids go to school here. On weekends he’s at the hardware store in Stafford or walking the trails at Buffalo Bayou, and he’ll stop to talk ductwork with anyone who asks. He believes in written estimates because he’s been burned by verbal ones himself. He believes in photos because his own eyes have been his only reliable judge. And he believes in showing up when he said he would, because his father was a man who measured a person by that alone.
His commitment to you is direct: every job gets his attention, and no job leaves your house until the documentation proves what happened.
Before
AfterOur Promise to Houston Homeowners
Our values aren’t posters on a wall. They’re the H.A.V.E.N. Standard, and we cite it by clause on every job.
Clause 1 - Have it in writing: Before we touch your system, you get a flat price per system, a written scope of work, and our warranty terms. Not an estimate. A fixed number. We learned this the hard way, watching homeowners in Jersey Village and Pearland get quoted one figure over the phone and invoiced for another once the truck was in the driveway.
Clause 4 - Evidence on every job: We photograph the inside of every run before we start and after we finish. You see what we found. You see what we left. In Houston’s older neighborhoods like Garden Oaks and Oak Forest, where ducts haven’t been opened since the Carter administration, those photos are often the first time a homeowner has ever seen inside their own walls.
Clause 5 - No surprises: No door upsell. No “while we’re in here” pressure. If we find something unexpected - a disconnected trunk, a compromised plenum - we stop, show you, and quote it separately. Work doesn’t expand without your written okay.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed for air duct cleaning and HVAC-related work in Texas
- Insured & bonded - coverage that protects your property while we’re in your home
- Years of local experience serving Houston-area homeowners since this branch opened in 2013
- Strong local reputation built across Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties
These matter because you’re letting strangers into your house to work on a system that touches every breath your family takes. A state license means someone verified we know the trade. Insurance means if we damage your ceiling or your Aprilaire humidifier, you’re not chasing us for repair money. Bonding means there’s a financial backstop behind our promises. And local experience means we’ve seen what Houston’s climate does to ductwork - the spring pollen loads, the summer humidity that blooms mold in fiberglass lining, the post-hurricane flood patterns that change everything about how you approach a job. We don’t learn your neighborhood from a map. We learn it from return visits.
Rooted in Houston
This branch lives where it works. We’ve cleaned ducts in the bungalows of the East End, the new construction in Atascocita, the sprawling ranch homes of Memorial, and the tight subdivisions of Missouri City where every house shares the same 1987 duct design. We know the difference between a Fresno home on slab and a Humble home on pier-and-beam, and what that means for how dust travels. We schedule around the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo traffic, and we know which weeks in March the oak pollen is so thick you can see it in the return grilles. We’re not visiting. We’re here.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Houston, serving Houston since 2013.