The Move-in Fresh Start package

Buying a house means inheriting whatever the last owner left in the air side of it, and you usually have no way to know what that is. The duct system moved their dust for years. The dryer vent may never have been cleaned. The bathroom fans quietly stopped pulling air at some point that predates you entirely. None of it shows up on an inspection report, and all of it is easiest to deal with in the short window when the house is empty and yours.

The Move-in Fresh Start exists for that window. It puts the three air-side jobs a new owner most often wants into one visit, at $599 instead of the $57-higher total of booking them on their own.

What the visit covers

The package is an air duct cleaning for one system, a standard dryer vent cleaning, and two bathroom exhaust fans. The duct cleaning is the long part of the day: the collection unit goes on the trunk and runs under continuous negative pressure while every supply run, return, and the main trunk is agitated, so the dust leaves the ductwork instead of moving around inside it. The dryer vent is cleaned from both ends, including the lint trap cavity and the exterior termination, with an airflow reading taken before and after so the result is a number. The two bathroom fans are pulled, cleared of the dust that cakes the blade and housing, and put back.

Every one of those jobs produces before-and-after footage that goes to your phone and stays attached to the record. You do not have to take anyone’s word for what happened inside a wall or an attic.

Why the empty house matters

An occupied house makes all three jobs slower. Furniture sits in front of returns, the laundry is in use, and the bathrooms have someone’s shampoo on the fan-side windowsill. Before you move in, none of that is true. The air handler is clear, the dryer is already disconnected or easy to reach, and the bathrooms are empty. The same work that takes longer around your life takes a straightforward half day in a house nobody has settled into yet.

It is also the honest time to find out what you actually bought. If a run is crushed, a section of flex is disconnected in the attic, or the dryer duct has a bird nest at the roof, you want to know now, while it is a line on a to-do list and not a mystery smell in August.

When you should not buy this

If you know the history of the house and the systems are fine, skip it. A duct cleaning is not a routine service; the EPA’s own consumer guidance is to clean ducts when there is a specific reason, not on a schedule. If the sellers cleaned the ducts a year ago and the dryer vent runs strong, you are buying work you do not need. In that case, book only the single service that is actually due, or nothing at all. The bundle is a fair deal when a new owner wants all three things anyway — not a reason to buy all three.

The duct cleaning is the expensive half of this package. Read the honest test on the air duct cleaning page before you decide, the same way we would tell you at the door.

What it does not include

This is a cleaning-and-documentation visit. It does not include duct repair or replacement, duct sealing, or any work on the AC equipment itself. If we find something that needs a contractor — wet or contaminated insulation, a disconnected run, a dryer vent that needs a new termination — you get the photo and a plain description of what it is, and we tell you what to ask a licensed contractor. We do not diagnose or repair, and we do not sell you a fix that is not ours to make.

Sanitizing and a roof-vent bird guard are available as add-ons if you want them, priced up front and added only when you approve them by text. Nothing lands on the invoice that you did not agree to first.