How CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Atlanta Was Born in Atlanta
Back in 2013, we were still working out of a borrowed van with a single Nikro portable and a clipboard that always got rained on. The call came from a homeowner in Decatur who’d already paid two other companies to “clean” her ducts. She’d kept the receipts. Both charged her, both left quickly, and both times she watched her supply registers blow gray fuzz the following week. We arrived, ran our camera through the main trunk, and showed her what was still there: a packed layer of construction debris from a 2008 renovation, untouched by either previous crew. She sat on her stairs and cried. Not from relief, from exhaustion. That was the moment we knew Atlanta needed something different. CleanRun already existed as a brand with standards, but this city needed a branch that would actually hold to them. We opened our Atlanta operation that fall with one rule: photograph every run, every time, and show the customer before they pay a dollar. Thirteen years later, we haven’t broken it once.
Tomas Reyes’s Personal Connection to the Air Duct Cleaning Trade
We didn’t stumble into this work. We were pulled into it by the smell of a crawl space in July and the particular satisfaction of a brush cable running smooth through a straight trunk line.
Tomas Reyes learned the trade the old way, starting as a helper for a mechanical contractor who did commercial HVAC work across North Georgia. The training wasn’t formal. It was carrying tools through muddy new construction in Sandy Springs, holding a flashlight while someone older pointed out where a flex duct had been crushed by a careless framer, learning to read a manometer by feel because the digital display had cracked. The first time Tomas ran a camera through a residential system and saw the difference between what a homeowner thought they had and what was actually there, something locked into place. This was work you could do right or do wrong, and the person paying had no way to know which until it was too late.
What gets us out of bed is the same thing that kept us in it late those first years: the gap between what people are promised and what they receive. We’ve seen the inside of enough Atlanta ductwork to know that most homeowners have never seen theirs at all. They trust. They shouldn’t have to trust blindly. There’s a specific feeling when you hand someone a tablet showing their own before-and-after photos, when they trace the line of a brush mark with their finger and understand exactly what they paid for. That’s the work. Everything else is just getting there.
If we weren’t doing this, we’d probably be fixing something else. Old motorcycles, maybe. There’s a similar logic to it: systems that move air or fuel, parts that wear in predictable ways, a right way to torque a fitting. But ducts won because the need was everywhere and almost nobody was meeting it honestly.
Meet Tomas Reyes - The Person Behind Every Job
Tomas Reyes is the Owner and Founder of CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Atlanta. He holds state licensure for HVAC and duct cleaning work in Georgia and has completed manufacturer training on Nikro and Abatement Technologies equipment. Before opening this branch, he spent over a decade in mechanical trades across metro Atlanta, from new construction installs in Dunwoody to restoration work after the 2009 floods.
What separates Tomas from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he’s the one who answers when something goes wrong. Not a regional manager, not a customer service line. He keeps a workshop bench in the College Park warehouse where failed parts get dissected to see what actually happened. His hobby is embarrassingly specific: he collects vintage duct fabrication manuals from the 1950s and 1960s, back when sheet metal work was still taught as a craft. That same attention to how things are built, not just how they’re sold, is what he brings to every home we enter.
Our commitment to you is direct: Tomas reviews every job file personally, and if you’re not satisfied, he returns himself.
Before
AfterOur Promise to Atlanta Homeowners
We operate under The Haven Standard, a five-clause code that governs every job we take. Clause 1: Have it in writing. Every quote is a flat price per system, agreed before work starts, with the full scope listed. We learned this the hard way early on, when a homeowner in Smyrna was quoted one figure over the phone and handed a bill 40% higher by a different crew. That doesn’t happen here because the price is fixed to the system count, not the vent count, and it’s in writing before we unload a single tool.
Clause 4: Evidence on every job. We photograph the inside of every run before and after. Not a representative sample, not the worst one. Every run. The customer receives these photos as part of their job record, stored and available if they ever need to reference them. This isn’t marketing; it’s the only proof that matters in a trade where the work is literally invisible.
Clause 5: No surprises. No door upsell, no “while we’re in here” additions, no scope creep. If we find something unexpected, we stop, explain, and quote it separately. The original price stands unless the customer explicitly approves a change in writing.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed for HVAC and air duct cleaning work in Georgia
- Insured & bonded for residential and commercial properties
- Over a decade of local experience in metro Atlanta duct systems, from 1920s Craftsman bungalows in Decatur to new construction in Sandy Springs
- Strong local reputation built on documented work and repeat customers across Fulton, DeKalb, and Cobb counties
These credentials matter because you’re letting strangers work inside your home’s hidden infrastructure. State licensure means we’ve met Georgia’s technical and ethical requirements. Insurance and bonding protect your property if something goes wrong. Local experience means we’ve seen the specific duct configurations common to Atlanta’s housing stock: the flex duct nightmares in 1980s subdivisions, the original galvanized steel in Morningside cottages, the retrofit jobs where someone ran a line through an unconditioned attic and called it done. And reputation is the only credential you can verify yourself, which is why we encourage every homeowner to read our reviews and, more importantly, ask to see our documentation from a recent job.
Rooted in Atlanta
Our warehouse sits just off I-285 near College Park, and our service radius covers the neighborhoods we actually know. We’ve cleaned ducts after the pollen explosions that hit Buckhead every March, when pines across North Atlanta dump enough yellow dust to clog a return in a week. We’ve worked the tight crawl spaces under Virginia-Highland bungalows where the original ductwork hasn’t been touched since Carter was president. We’re not from everywhere. We’re from here, with local license plates and local references, operating under standards that travel with us from the parent brand but applied to Atlanta’s specific houses and Atlanta’s specific problems.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Atlanta, serving Atlanta, Decatur, Smyrna, and surrounding communities since 2013.