BEWARE of Scams, Cheap Prices, & Cheap Equipment!
There have been countless Dateline episodes and Better Business Bureau (BBB) warnings of duct cleaning scams running rampant across the US. Currently, there are at least 6 of these types companies working in Southeast Michigan alone. The Southeast Michigan BBB warns to beware of any coupons offering sanitizing treatments, chimney cleaning or any other coupons looking similar these:
These coupons are examples of deceptive advertising and can be found in your own local coupon books. They show a cheap price, but when the fine print is read, that cheap price only cleans a small amount of ductwork, and then the scams begin. During your phone conversation with one of these con artists, you’ll never get an exact price for all of your duct work. They will only give you an estimate until they arrive at your home with what amounts to a shop-vac in the back of their van.
Then the price suddenly changes from the cheap estimate to over double what a legitimate duct cleaning company would charge. We recently had a widowed senior call us in tears that she had just written a check for over $1500 for an inadequate cleaning that should have cost only $349. One way to identify a scam artist is by the quality of their equipment. Small van vacuum equipment systems, like those seen in the picture on this page, are only capable of moving 4000 cubic feet of air per minute, versus our Power Vac trucks that move an astonishing 16,000 cubic feet of air per minute.
