How CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Fort Worth Was Born in Fort Worth
We opened this branch in 2013 because a homeowner in the Mistletoe Heights neighborhood called us in tears. She’d paid another company to clean her ducts, and they’d run a Rotobrush through her living room vent for fifteen minutes, handed her a $340 invoice, and left. The dust was still there. She knew it. She could smell it every time the AC cycled on. What she didn’t know was that her master bedroom run, the one with the water stain near the boot, had never been touched at all.
That call came in on a Tuesday afternoon in late August, the kind of day in Fort Worth where the asphalt shimmers and your attic feels like a convection oven. We drove out with a camera, a scope, and a promise we’d made to ourselves: we would photograph the inside of every run before we touched it, and we’d show her the after before we asked for a dime. The living room run had a film of gray dust on the trunk line. The master bedroom run had a softball of pet hair wedged at the elbow. We cleaned both. We photographed both. She sat on her kitchen stool and scrolled through the images on our tablet, quiet for a long moment. Then she said, “Nobody’s ever shown me what was actually in there.”
That was the moment. We knew Fort Worth needed a branch that worked the way we’d been trained to work: flat price in writing, evidence on every job, no surprises. CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning was already building that reputation in other markets. We brought it here because that homeowner deserved better, and because we couldn’t stand the idea of another family paying for a performance instead of a cleaning.
Tomas Reyes’s Personal Connection to the Air Duct Cleaning Trade
Tomas Reyes didn’t stumble into this work. He was pulled into it by curiosity and kept in it by the smell of dust that isn’t supposed to be there.
Back in 2003, ten years before we opened this branch, Tomas was working maintenance at a commercial complex off I-30 near downtown Fort Worth. A contractor had been hired to clean the building’s ductwork, and Tomas watched him set up a portable Nikro HEPA collector, run a cable through a main trunk, and pull back a mat of construction debris that had been sitting there since the building went up in 1987. The smell that came out with it was ancient: drywall grit, old cigarette smoke, the particular mustiness of paper that has been wet and dried a dozen times. The contractor showed Tomas how to read a duct with a borescope, how to feel for turbulence at a register that meant a blockage upstream, how the static pressure reading would tell you more than your eyes could.
Tomas spent the next decade learning every system he could get his hands on. He cleaned ducts in 1950s ranch houses in Arlington with original galvanized steel runs that rattled like a kettle drum. He worked on new construction in Keller where the builder’s crew had left soda cans and insulation scraps inside the trunk lines. He crawled through attics in Colleyville in July, the sheathing hot enough to raise a blister on your palm, because a homeowner’s child had been coughing for six months and the pediatrician suspected environmental triggers.
What gets him out of bed is the before. The register that blows gray when you snap a photo with the flash. The return plenum lined with a fur of lint and skin cells. He has seen homeowners hold their breath when he shows them, not from disgust, but from recognition. “That’s what we’ve been breathing,” they say. Yes. That’s what you’ve been breathing. And now we can show you it’s gone.
If he weren’t doing this, he’d probably be restoring vintage motorcycles, another trade where you can’t fake the work. You can paint the tank, but the engine either runs or it doesn’t. The borescope doesn’t lie either. That’s why he trusts it more than his own eyes.
Meet Tomas Reyes - The Person Behind Every Job
Tomas Reyes is the Owner and Founder of CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Fort Worth. He holds state licensure for HVAC duct cleaning in Texas and has trained on Rotobrush, Nikro, and Honeywell systems across multiple certifications in residential and light commercial work. He personally reviews the photo documentation from every job this branch completes, usually the same evening, because he believes the owner should know what his crews found before the customer does.
What separates Tomas from a corporate franchise technician is simple: his cell number is in the estimate footer, and he answers it. Not because he’s trying to be accessible, but because he can’t stand not knowing whether a job was done right. He lives in the 76107 zip code, rides his bike on the Trinity Trails on Saturday mornings, and has a rule that no crew member works in a home where he wouldn’t send his own mother. That’s not a marketing line. His mother lives in Haltom City, and he checks her ducts himself every spring.
His commitment to you is direct: if he wouldn’t pay for the work himself, he won’t ask you to.
Before
AfterOur Promise to Fort Worth Homeowners
We operate under The Haven Standard, and we cite it by clause because these aren’t suggestions. They’re requirements.
Clause 1: Have it in writing. Every job gets a flat price per system, a written scope of work, and a written warranty before anyone starts. Not an estimate. A fixed number. If your home has two systems, you get two prices. No per-vent math, no surprise add-ons when we find something we should have seen at the walkthrough.
Clause 4: Evidence on every job. We photograph the inside of every run before and after. Not a representative sample. Every run. You get the images on a digital report, timestamped, with notes on what we found. In 2013, when we opened this branch, we bought our first borescope camera specifically for this purpose. We’ve replaced it four times since then, but the policy hasn’t changed.
Clause 5: No surprises. No door upsell. No “while we’re in here” pressure. If we find something outside the scope, we document it, explain it, and let you decide without a technician standing in your doorway.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed for HVAC duct cleaning work in Texas
- Insured & bonded for residential and light commercial service
- Local experience serving Fort Worth and surrounding communities since 2013
- Strong local reputation built on documented work and repeat referrals
These credentials matter because air duct cleaning happens inside your home, often while you’re at work, and always in spaces you can’t easily inspect yourself. A state license means we’ve met Texas requirements for training and accountability. Insurance and bonding means protection for your property if something goes wrong. Local experience means we know which Fort Worth neighborhoods built in the 1960s have transite duct boots that crumble if you look at them wrong, and which new developments in North Richland Hills have flex duct so tight it needs a different approach entirely. You can’t Google that. You live it.
Rooted in Fort Worth
This branch operates out of Fort Worth because Tomas lives here, raised his family here, and learned the trade in the attics and crawl spaces of Tarrant County. We’ve cleaned ducts in the historic homes of Fairmount, the new builds of Walsh Ranch, the ranch-style houses of Wedgwood where the original ductwork is still hanging in by its original straps. We know the red clay soil that filters into crawl spaces, the hail season that dents condensers and drives homeowners to check their systems, the August humidity that turns a mildly dirty duct into a mold risk. We’re not visiting Fort Worth. We’re from here.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Fort Worth, serving Fort Worth since 2013.