How CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Sandy Springs Was Born in Sandy Springs
We remember the exact afternoon in late 2013 when we knew Sandy Springs needed something different. A homeowner on Brandon Mill Road had called us in desperation. She’d paid a company that advertised a $79 whole-house special, and they’d run a shop vac at her return grille for twenty minutes, then presented her with a $680 invoice for “sanitizing” she never agreed to. The dust was still there. She could smell it when the AC kicked on.
We were already working with CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning in another market, and we knew what the brand stood for: every run photographed, every price written down before a tool touched metal. Standing in that woman’s hallway, watching her pull out a crumpled receipt for work that essentially didn’t happen, we decided Sandy Springs would get the real thing. That winter, we opened this branch. We haven’t run a coupon since.
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 curiosity that wouldn’t quit.
Back in the early 2000s, he was renting a basement apartment in Chamblee with a window unit that smelled like wet cardboard every June. The landlord sent a handyman who sprayed something floral into the vents and charged fifty dollars. The smell came back in two weeks. Tomas bought a borescope camera from a closing hardware store, the kind with a stiff cable and a grainy screen, and fed it into that duct himself. What he saw changed his trajectory: a mat of gray fluff, dead skin and construction debris packed against the elbow, wet from condensation, growing something that no spray could reach.
He spent that weekend with a shop vac and a brush he rigged from a toilet snake, working slowly, documenting everything. The air that came out afterward smelled like nothing at all. That nothing was the point. He’d found a problem, understood its shape, and removed it with his own hands.
The tradesman who trained him was a mechanical contractor in Doraville who did commercial HVAC. Tomas swept floors for six months before he was allowed to touch a rotary brush. He learned the feel of a duct run by listening to the cable feed, the vibration through the handle telling him when he’d hit a damper or a collapse. He learned that residential flex duct in Sandy Springs splits differently than rigid metal in older Decatur homes, that the clay soil in this part of Georgia shifts foundations and cracks trunk lines, that pollen season here doesn’t end, it just changes species.
What gets him out of bed isn’t the equipment. It’s the moment on a job when a homeowner sees their own “before” photo, the gray fur coating inside a duct they’ve been breathing through for years, and understands why their kid’s allergies spike in October. 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 satisfaction is in the doing.
Meet Tomas Reyes - The Person Behind Every Job
Tomas Reyes is the Owner and Founder of CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Sandy Springs. He’s been in the duct cleaning trade for over ten years, trained in both residential and commercial systems, and holds the state license and insurance required to work in Georgia homes. He’s certified in NADCA cleaning methods and has worked with Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies equipment since the early days of this branch.
What separates him from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he’s the one who answers when something goes wrong. Not a regional manager. Not a customer service line. He carries the tools, he reviews the photos, he calls the homeowner if a run shows damage we didn’t expect. On weekends, he’s usually at a Cars and Coffee in Alpharetta or rebuilding a carburetor in his garage. That same patience he applies to a stuck float bowl, he applies to a collapsed duct in a Sandy Springs crawl space. Every job that leaves this branch carries his direct commitment: if the documentation doesn’t match the work, we’ll come back and make it right.
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AfterOur Promise to Sandy Springs Homeowners
We operate under The Haven Standard, a five-clause code that governs every job we take. Haven Clause 1, “Have it in writing,” means your flat price and full scope are documented before we start. No per-vent add-ons, no “we found mold” upsell at your door. We learned this from the Brandon Mill Road homeowner. Her invoice had no line items. Ours always do.
Clause 4, “Evidence on every job,” means we photograph the interior of every run before and after. Not a representative sample. Every run. You receive these photos with your service record. If we can’t show you the difference, we haven’t done the work.
We use Aprilaire media filters and Guardsman antimicrobial treatments where appropriate, never as a default upsell. We stand behind every job because our name is on the truck that parks in your driveway, not a national logo we can’t control.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed to perform air duct cleaning and HVAC accessory work in Georgia
- Insured & bonded for residential work in homeowner-occupied properties
- Over ten years of direct trade experience in the greater Atlanta market
- Strong local reputation built through documented work and repeat referrals
These credentials matter because you’re inviting someone into your home to work on the system that circulates the air your family breathes. A state license means we’ve met Georgia’s competency requirements. Insurance and bonding mean you’re protected if something goes wrong. Years of local experience mean we’ve seen the specific duct configurations, foundation types, and pollen loads that characterize Sandy Springs homes. And a reputation built on evidence, not advertising, means you can verify our claims before you call.
Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license and insurance their state requires. We don’t send anyone to your home who couldn’t pass the same scrutiny we demand of ourselves.
Rooted in Sandy Springs
This branch opened in Sandy Springs because we live here. We know the difference between the 1960s ranch homes near Hammond Park and the newer construction off Morgan Falls Road, where builders left construction debris in ducts that homeowners discover three years later. We’ve worked in Dunwoody Club Forest, in Riverwood, in the townhomes near City Springs. Our trucks pass the same medians where the blue herons nest along the Chattahoochee. We’re not pretending to be local. We are local, with the backing of a brand that has photographed 52,000+ homes since 2013 and won’t let us cut corners if we tried.
Written by Tomas Reyes, Owner at CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning Sandy Springs, serving Sandy Springs, Roswell, Norcross, Smyrna, Marietta, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Decatur, Atlanta, Duluth, Milton, and Kennesaw since 2013.