How CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning San Antonio Was Born in San Antonio
We opened this branch in 2013 because we’d seen what passed for “duct cleaning” in San Antonio, and it made us tired. A homeowner in Terrell Hills called us after another company had run a shop vac at two registers, collected their check, and left the rest of the system full of construction dust from a 1987 renovation. She’d paid for a whole-house cleaning. What she got was 20 minutes of vacuum noise and a handwritten receipt.
That same week, we watched a technician in Alamo Heights try to sell a $4,000 “mold remediation” to a retired teacher whose ducts just needed a proper agitation and extraction. The mold turned out to be dust shadow. She didn’t have four thousand dollars. She did have anxiety, and a company that preyed on it.
We decided that evening, sitting in a truck outside a supply house on Loop 410, that San Antonio deserved what the CleanRun brand already stood for: every run photographed before and after, a flat price written down before anyone touched a tool, and no conversation that started with fear and ended with a surprise invoice. We didn’t invent CleanRun. We brought it here because our neighbors needed it.
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 the physics of air itself.
Back in the late 2000s, Tomas was working maintenance for a property group that managed buildings from Castle Hills to Leon Valley. He’d been the guy who changed filters, reset thermostats, patched drywall after plumbers. The work was fine. Then a building on Vance Jackson started having complaints, room after room, and no one could trace it. The HVAC contractor said the units were fine. An air quality company came in, took samples, sent a report full of Latin names, and recommended a $12,000 system replacement.
Tomas asked if he could look inside the ducts himself. He borrowed a borescope from an electrician friend, fed it through a return, and found the problem in ten minutes: a collapsed flex duct behind a master bedroom wall, pulling attic air through a gap the size of a grapefruit. Fiberglass, rat droppings, 140-degree San Antonio attic heat, all circulating through the system. The samples weren’t wrong. The diagnosis was.
He fixed it with $80 in materials and a Saturday. But what stayed with him was the feeling of that borescope monitor, the grainy image resolving into clarity, the moment you see what’s actually wrong instead of what someone told you was wrong. That feeling became the work. Tomas spent the next years learning the trade properly: source removal, negative air pressure, rotary brush systems, the difference between a trunk line and a branch run, how clay soil in San Antonio’s older neighborhoods shifts foundations and cracks ductwork in patterns you learn to read.
If he weren’t doing this, he’d probably be restoring vintage motorcycles, another pursuit where you can’t fake the work, where the evidence is visible and the excuses aren’t. What gets him out of bed is the same thing: a problem you can see, a fix you can prove, a customer who knows exactly what happened in their home.
Meet Tomas Reyes - The Person Behind Every Job
Tomas Reyes is the Owner and Founder of CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning San Antonio. He holds state licensure for HVAC-related duct cleaning work and has completed manufacturer training on Rotobrush and Nikro extraction systems. Before opening this branch in 2013, he spent years in building maintenance and mechanical trades across Bexar County, learning how air moves through homes built in every decade from the 1920s to new construction.
What separates Tomas from a corporate franchise technician is simple: his name is on the truck, and his phone number is the one that answers when something goes wrong. He still carries a borescope on every job, still climbs attics in July when it’s 130 degrees up there, still takes the photos himself when a customer wants to see what their ducts looked like before the work started.
On weekends, Tomas rides Hill Country backroads on a 1974 Honda CB750 he’s rebuilding piece by piece. The patience required to true a wheel or set valve lash is the same patience he brings to a 1950s ranch in Alamo Heights with original galvanized ductwork and no access panels. He believes you can tell how someone will treat your home by how they treat something they’re not being paid to fix.
His commitment to every customer is direct: if we photograph it, if we quote it, if we sign it, we stand behind it. No delegation, no disappearance.
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AfterOur Promise to San Antonio Homeowners
Our values aren’t framed on a wall. They’re enforced on every job, under The Haven Standard.
Have it in writing. Every quote is a flat price per system, with the scope itemized, before any technician enters your home. We learned this the hard way early on, when a customer in Windcrest misunderstood a verbal estimate and we ate the difference rather than break trust. Now it’s Clause 1: written price, written scope, written warranty, every time.
Evidence on every job. We photograph the inside of every run before and after. Not a representative sample, not the worst one. Every run. In 2019, a homeowner in Live Oak called us back because she couldn’t believe her registers had been that clogged. We pulled her file, showed her the images, and she referred her entire HOA.
No surprises. We don’t do door upsells. We don’t “find” problems that require immediate additional work. If we see something unexpected, we document it, explain it, and let you decide with a revised written scope if you want us to address it.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed for air duct cleaning and HVAC-related work in Texas
- Insured & bonded for residential and commercial service
- Years of local experience serving San Antonio and surrounding communities since 2013
- Strong local reputation built through documented work and customer referrals
These credentials matter because you’re letting strangers work inside your home, often while you’re not there. State licensure means we’ve met Texas requirements for training and accountability. Insurance and bonding protect your property if something goes wrong. Local tenure means we know which San Antonio neighborhoods have clay soil that cracks slab ducts, which era of construction used asbestos tape, and how to access attics in historic districts without damaging original plaster. A strong local reputation means we can’t afford to disappear, because we see our customers at H-E-B and their kids’ schools.
Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license and insurance their state requires, and to perform under The Haven Standard’s documentation and pricing rules.
Rooted in San Antonio
This branch lives where it works. We’ve cleaned ducts in the tight crawl spaces of Alamo Heights cottages, the sprawling attics of Castle Hills ranches, and the new construction in Converse where builders left drywall dust in every trunk line. We’ve worked through San Antonio’s cedar fever seasons when allergen loads spike, and after summer hailstorms when homeowners realize their systems have been pulling attic air through damaged returns. We’re not a truck that drives in from another metro. We’re the local team that Tomas Reyes built, serving the same zip codes where we buy groceries, get our trucks serviced, and watch the Spurs lose gracefully at local spots.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning San Antonio, serving San Antonio and surrounding communities since 2013.