Along the top of a run
Gravity puts it there and leaves it there. The most common thing the camera finds.
Where the dust actually sits
You have never seen inside your ducts.
Almost nobody has. It is the one part of a home nobody inspects and nobody cleans, and it feeds every room you breathe in — so the camera goes in first, and the pictures are yours either way.
Real Aero captures
Why we photograph first
Every frame below came off a real job in an Arizona home — no stock photography. Shooting both ends means you are not taking our word for where we went.
Captured on a duct inspection camera and color-corrected for the web. Every system is different — some hold far more than these, and some hold noticeably less. You get your own either way.
What the camera shows
Where the dirt sits
All of it is what we clean out.
In the ribbing
Every ridge in a flex run is a ledge. Airflow moves across it without lifting anything.
In the main duct
The large duct feeds every room, so anything sitting in it is upstream of everything.
Where sections meet
Every change in surface gives debris something to collect against — and a duct run is full of them.
None of it is visible from the register, which is why this page exists. A vent grille can look spotless with all of the above sitting a few feet behind it. And a filter only helps with what is still moving — it does nothing about what has already settled out along the run.
On a job, these photos are not a gallery — they are the receipt. The camera inspection runs before anything is cleaned and again once each run is done, on the same angles, and you get both passes. What you see above is the honest range — some systems hold more, some hold less. Either way, the price was set before we arrived.
See your own photos.
Every duct cleaning includes a camera pass before and after we work.
Flat rate from $329 · the price on screen is the price at the door