How CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Alpharetta Was Born in Alpharetta
Back in 2013, we were still working out of a white van with magnetic signs, pulling into a driveway off Windward Parkway. The homeowner had already paid another company $189 for a “whole house special.” What they got was a shop vac run over three registers and a fog of deodorizer that gave her headaches for two days. She called us because her daughter’s asthma was worse, not better. We brought in a camera scope and showed her what was still in the trunk line: a mat of construction debris from 2006, gray and compacted, with a dead field mouse dessicated behind the main damper.
That was the afternoon we decided Alpharetta needed something different. Not another coupon. Not another truck with a vacuum and a sales script. We called CleanRun that week and asked what it would take to bring their standard here. The answer was Haven, and we have run every job under it since.
Tomas Reyes’s Personal Connection to the Air Duct Cleaning Trade
We did not grow up planning to clean ducts. The first time we crawled into a supply plenum, it was because a general contractor needed someone small enough to fit and stubborn enough to stay. The space smelled of old fiberglass and mouse droppings. The light on our headlamp caught dust motes thick as cotton. Our knees ached against the metal seam. And something about it felt honest. You could see the problem. You could see when it was gone. No one could argue with a photograph of a trunk line before and after.
The tradesman who trained us worked commercial jobs in Fulton County for thirty years. He taught us to read a duct system like a story: the rust streaks that mean moisture intrusion, the black stripes near the furnace that signal backdrafting, the way Alpharetta’s red clay dust works its way into return boots during dry Augusts. He also taught us what he called “the smell of a lie” - deodorizer masking mold, a rushed job that looks clean at the register but leaves the trunk untouched.
That is what gets us out of bed. The homeowner who has already been burned once. The system that three other companies said was “fine” because they did not own a camera scope. The moment we hand someone their before-and-after photos and watch them understand, finally, what they were breathing. If we were not doing this, we would probably be fixing old motorcycles or restoring furniture - something where the work speaks and you cannot fake the finish.
Thirteen years in, the smell of ozone from a properly sanitized plenum still means something to us. It means we were there, we looked, we did not look away.
Meet Tomas Reyes - The Person Behind Every Job
Tomas Reyes is the Owner and Founder of CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Alpharetta. He holds state licensure for HVAC and duct cleaning work in Georgia, carries full insurance and bonding, and has completed manufacturer training on Abatement Technologies and Honeywell filtration systems. Before opening this branch, he spent years in the field running cameras, sealing plenums, and learning which Aprilaire media filters actually fit which furnace cabinets without modification.
What separates Tomas from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he still checks the photos from yesterday’s jobs every morning. He knows which Milton split-levels have the flexible duct that crushes if you look at it wrong. He has replaced enough Guardsman access panels to know which screw pattern the original builder used in Johns Creek versus Duluth. On weekends, he builds furniture in his garage - badly, he will tell you, but with joinery that outlasts the wood. That same patience goes into every system he touches. If we send a crew to your home, Tomas has trained them, reviewed your file, and set the scope himself.
Before
AfterOur Promise to Alpharetta Homeowners
We operate under The Haven Standard, and we cite it by clause because each one cost us a lesson to learn.
Clause 1: Have it in writing. Every quote is flat price, whole system, agreed before anyone touches a register. We learned this after watching a homeowner in Roswell choke back tears when a $149 coupon became a $680 invoice. Our price is our price. The scope does not grow because we found something “concerning.”
Clause 4: Evidence on every job. We photograph every run before and after. Not the registers. The runs. You get the files. We keep copies. If you cannot see the difference, we have not done our job, and we will come back.
Clause 5: No surprises. No door upsell, no “while we are in here” pressure. We have walked away from jobs where the homeowner wanted extra work mid-stream because the written scope is what protects us both.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed for HVAC and air duct cleaning work in Georgia
- Insured & bonded for residential and commercial property protection
- Years of local experience serving Alpharetta and surrounding North Atlanta communities
- Strong local reputation built on documented results and repeat referrals
These matter because we work inside your home. Your HVAC system is not a roadside repair. It is the lungs of your house, and the person accessing it needs to be accountable to someone local, with a license that can be verified and insurance that can be called. Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license and insurance their state requires. We do not send strangers. We send professionals with a file.
Rooted in Alpharetta
This branch opened here because Alpharetta’s housing stock demanded it. The Windward subdivisions with their 1990s flexible duct. The newer Milton High district builds with tight envelopes and nowhere for particulate to hide. We have worked in Crabapple, in downtown Alpharetta near the old cotton warehouse, in the townhomes off Old Milton Parkway where every unit shares a plenum and one bad job infects six neighbors. We are not pretending to be from somewhere else. Our trucks are garaged here. Our crews live in Roswell, in Johns Creek, in Cumming. When we say local, we mean we hit the same traffic you do.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Alpharetta, serving Alpharetta since 2013.