Fife, Pierce County
Cleaning the air ducts of a Fife house starts at $535. The count of supply and return openings, how many levels the system serves, and how easy the air handler is to reach decide where the price settles. We put the ductwork under negative pressure while we work, so loosened dust is drawn into our collection unit rather than blown into your rooms.
Typical investment
From $535
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Fife homes.
Level 1 or Level 2 as needed; Level 2 includes a camera run through the entire flue
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Top-to-bottom brushing of flue and firebox under drop cloths, with a HEPA vacuum pulling the dust
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Loose or damaged brick, open joints and firebox panels repaired
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A full-length stainless-steel or cast liner, firebox to chimney top
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A stainless cap sized to your actual flue dimensions
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Burner, pilot assembly and valve cleaned and adjusted
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Because so much of Fife was built from the 1990s on, many homes here run forced-air systems whose ducts are now twenty to thirty years old and, in many cases, have never been opened up. That is long enough for construction dust left from the build, years of household dust and, in homes with a wood stove or fireplace, fine ash to settle in the returns and along the bottom of the trunk lines.
Wood is the primary heat source in roughly 1.2% of occupied Fife households, going by the 2020 to 2024 census survey. Pierce County as a whole sits near 1.9%.
In a home heated by a stove, fine ash escapes each time the door is opened and the stove is fed, and a forced-air return nearby pulls it into the ducts. The county's wider history shows how much wood smoke can matter: the EPA's 2015 notice attributes 74% of direct fine particle emissions on winter days to home wood burning in the area at the time it was designated.
Washington Ecology's 2019 review points out that, once the clean air agency tightened burn ban enforcement in Tacoma-Pierce County, under a tenth of the people ticketed went on to break a later ban.
Bans cut the outdoor smoke. Indoors, the ducts decide what the furnace spreads around. When the heat is running hard on a cold, still day, clean ducts and a fresh filter keep the air in the house from carrying last winter's dust. Burning only dry wood or manufactured logs, as the agency's rules require, keeps the ash lighter too.
Every air duct cleaning we do in Fife includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowFife sits between the port and I-5, and for much of the long, grey season its windows stay closed. Shut up like that, a house runs the same indoor air through its blower for months on end, stirring up whatever lies in the trunk lines at every start. Cleaning clears the slate; a new filter slows the dust from settling in again.
WeatherSpark gives Fife a rainy season of about 6.8 months with close to 8 inches in November, a touch more than the 6.7 months and roughly 7.7 inches it reports for Tacoma next door.
Damp air matters for ductwork in crawl spaces and garages, where metal runs can sweat and dust turns to a film that is harder to lift. We look for that during the first inspection and tell you if a run shows moisture, because cleaning alone will not solve a condensation problem.
A few runs and the blower compartment get photographed first, giving you a view inside before the final figure is set.
Registers are covered and our collection unit connected to put the system under negative pressure.
Brushes and air whips loosen the dust run by run, and the vacuum pulls it out of the house.
Grilles go back clean, after-photos are taken, and we note the filter size and when to change it.
What this work is quoted at for Fife homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Fife | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Air Duct Cleaning | From $535 | Whole HVAC system — trunks, branches and every register |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Relining | From $1,900 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Repair | From $375 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Fife. The exact figure is set on site after a $99 inspection (credited toward the job if you go ahead), and you approve it before any work starts.
Fife is a city incorporated in 1957 on farmland just south of the Port of Tacoma, along I-5, with mostly newer homes — a median build year of 2000, about 22% built before 1980.
FifePierce County, WA · 47.239, -122.357
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Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
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Four steps, each one on paper — so you always know what happens next.
Choose a genuine opening on the crew's calendar. Confirmation is immediate.
Liner, crown, cap, flashing and masonry examined in order — each finding photographed.
One document, plain numbers, covering only the work your chimney genuinely needs.
The repair is completed, then handed over with before-and-after photos of every item.
From $535. A single-level home with a handful of registers is at that starting point; larger homes, several floors or a hard-to-reach air handler cost more.
No calendar fits every home. Good moments are right after a remodel, when you take over a house whose history is unknown, or once the registers start puffing grey at start-up.
Yes, as a separate service. Booking both for the same day saves a second trip, since the equipment is already on site.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
