How CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Fairfax Was Born in Fairfax
Back in 2013, we were working out of another city when a call came in from a homeowner in Fairfax’s Kings Park West neighborhood. She’d already paid one company to clean her ducts, then hired a second when the first left her registers still coated in gray fuzz. Both had charged her, both had handed her a receipt, and neither could show her a single photo of what they’d actually done. She found us through a friend of a friend, and we drove down with a Rotobrush machine and a cheap digital camera.
What we found was typical of what we were seeing everywhere in those days: a shop vac pushed into one or two registers, maybe fifteen minutes of noise, then a bill. The homeowner’s system still had construction debris from a 2004 renovation packed in the main trunk. We spent the afternoon pulling it out, photographing every run before and after, and wrote her a flat price on paper before we started. That evening, driving back through Fairfax on Braddock Road, we started talking about whether this market, with its mix of 1970s colonials and new builds near Fair Lakes, needed something different. By fall, we had a truck parked here full-time. The promise we made that day in Kings Park West became the promise we still make: a written price, photographed evidence, and no invoice until the customer sees the difference.
Tomas Reyes’s Personal Connection to the Air Duct Cleaning Trade
Tomas Reyes didn’t stumble into duct cleaning. He was pulled into it by the smell of dust baking in a heat exchanger, by the way a homeowner’s face changes when you show them what was actually living in their walls.
He started in the trades in his early twenties, working with a crew that did everything from dryer vents to full HVAC installs. The first time he opened a plenum in a Reston townhouse and saw a decade of pet hair matted into fiberglass insulation, something clicked. It wasn’t disgust. It was recognition. He’d grown up in apartments where the heat never seemed right, where his mother burned candles to cover something she couldn’t name. That Reston job, he realized later, was his mother’s apartment. It was thousands of apartments. Someone had to look, and someone had to show the homeowner what looking revealed.
The work means something different to him than a service call. When he’s brushing a main line in a Fairfax Cape Cod or inspecting flex duct in a Centreville split-level, he’s thinking about the kid breathing that air, the asthma inhaler on the nightstand, the sleep that doesn’t come easy. The physical part matters too: the weight of the hose, the resistance when a brush hits a blockage, the metallic smell of a clean register. If he weren’t doing this, he’d probably be fixing old motorcycles or restoring furniture, something that rewards patience and leaves a visible result. Duct cleaning satisfies the same itch. You start with something hidden and dirty, and you finish with proof.
What gets him out of bed is the before-and-after. Not the sale, not the review. The photo of a blackened duct run next to the same run showing bare metal. That evidence is the whole point of the trade, and he’s been collecting it for over ten years now.
Meet Tomas Reyes - The Person Behind Every Job
Tomas Reyes is the Owner and Founder of CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Fairfax. He holds state licensure for HVAC and duct cleaning work in Virginia, carries full insurance and bonding, and has spent his entire career in the residential air quality trade. His training includes manufacturer certification on Abatement Technologies and Rotobrush equipment, and he personally oversees the documentation standard on every job his team runs in Fairfax County.
What separates Tomas from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he’s the one who answers when something goes wrong. He lives in the area, his kids go to school here, and he can’t afford to be the guy who ghosts a customer. On weekends, he’s usually at a Fairfax County park with his dog or rebuilding a vintage table saw he bought at a Manassas estate sale. That same patience goes into your ductwork. He doesn’t believe in “good enough,” and he doesn’t sign off on a job until the photos prove it.
His direct commitment to you: every estimate comes from him or under his direct review, and every invoice matches the written price you agreed to before anyone touched a tool.
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AfterOur Promise to Fairfax Homeowners
Our values aren’t poster slogans. They’re the rules we wrote after jobs that taught us what homeowners actually need.
Honest pricing, locked before we start. We learned this from the Kings Park West call in 2013. Every Fairfax homeowner gets a flat price per system, in writing, with the scope spelled out. No per-vent add-ons, no “we found mold” upsell at the truck. Clause 1 of The Haven Standard: Have it in writing.
Quality equipment, maintained and documented. We run Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies machines because they let us photograph the interior of every run. We log maintenance on each unit. A dirty brush spinning in your ductwork is worse than no cleaning at all, so we check our gear the way a mechanic checks brakes.
Standing behind the work. If a customer in Fairfax, Reston, or Centreville calls us back because something doesn’t feel right, we return. Not because a corporate handbook says so. Because Tomas Reyes’s name is on the truck, and that name has to mean something in a county where neighbors talk.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed for HVAC and air duct cleaning work in Virginia
- Insured and bonded for residential and commercial properties
- Over ten years of local experience serving Fairfax, Reston, Centreville, Herndon, Arlington, Alexandria, Sterling, Manassas, Ashburn, and the broader Northern Virginia area
- Strong local reputation built on documented before-and-after photography and flat-rate pricing
Why this matters when you hire someone to work inside your home: Virginia’s licensing requirements mean our technicians have passed state-level exams on HVAC systems, not just a weekend course. Insurance and bonding protect your property if something goes wrong, and our documentation system protects you from paying for work that was never performed. The license number is available on request, and we keep it visible because a homeowner in Fairfax has every right to verify who they’re letting past their threshold.
Rooted in Fairfax
We’ve cleaned ducts in the split-levels of Mantua, the townhomes of Fair Lakes, and the new construction near Fairfax Corner where the drywall dust hasn’t settled yet. We know the difference between a 1978 ranch with asbestos-wrapped ducts and a 2019 build with flex line that crushes if you look at it wrong. Our trucks pass the intersection of Route 50 and Chain Bridge Road often enough that we’ve watched the Trader Joe’s parking lot become impossible on Saturday mornings. Fairfax isn’t our territory. It’s where we work, where Tomas lives, and where our reputation has to hold up block by block. The standards come from CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning. The accountability is local.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Fairfax, serving Fairfax since 2013.