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Guardsman Air Duct Cleaning in New Braunfels: What to Know First

CleanRun provides independent Guardsman air duct cleaning in New Braunfels for residential and commercial systems, with most jobs completed in a single scheduled visit and a written price delivered before any panel comes off. We are not affiliated with or authorized by Guardsman; we are an independent service provider that documents every duct run with before-and-after photos and backs the work with our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If you own a Guardsman air filtration or duct-mounted component and need cleaning, repair, or full-system service, call (830) 549-6847. Tomas Reyes or a member of our crew will answer, schedule a free inspection, and show you what the camera sees before quoting a dollar.

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How Guardsman Products Fail - and How We Fix Them

• Guardsman UV-500 Series - cracked UV reactor housing. The UV-500’s polycarbonate reactor shell degrades faster in New Braunfels attics where summer temperatures routinely exceed 140°F. We see stress fractures at the mounting flange that allow unfiltered bypass air. Our fix: remove the housing, photograph the crack for the job record, and install a quality aftermarket reactor with aluminum reinforcement brackets. OEM housings are back-ordered 6-8 weeks; the aftermarket unit carries the same 9,000-hour lamp rating and fits without duct modification.
• Guardsman Merv-13 media cabinets - collapsed pleats from humidity cycling. New Braunfels sits at the edge of the Texas Hill Country where spring humidity swings of 40% in a single day force the Merv-13 extended-surface media to expand and contract until the wire pleat separators fatigue. The symptom is a whistle at the return plenum that owners mistake for a duct leak. We pull the media, photograph the collapsed section, and install a reinforced wire-frame aftermarket equivalent that holds shape through humidity spikes. The cabinet itself is usually intact; only the media needs replacement.
• Guardsman Flex-Seal duct boots - adhesive failure at the collar. The Flex-Seal line uses a pressure-sensitive adhesive collar to connect flexible duct to metal register boots. In older homes near the Gruene Historic District, we’ve found this adhesive crystallizes after 8-10 years of attic heat exposure and separates cleanly from the boot, leaving a 1/2-inch gap that pulls attic air into the supply stream. We cut back the flex, install a mechanical draw-band connection with mastic seal, and photograph the repair. No adhesive-to-adhesive joint survives that environment long-term.
• Guardsman EAC-2000 electronic air cleaners - ionizing wire corrosion. The tungsten ionizing wires in the EAC-2000 pit from the alkaline dust that blows up from the limestone caliche common to New Braunfels building sites. Once pitting exceeds 0.010 inch, arcing begins and the power board senses a fault. We measure wire diameter with a micrometer, replace wires that are out of spec, and clean the collector cells with a foaming degreaser rather than the manufacturer-recommended water rinse, which leaves mineral deposits from our hard local water. The cell plates get photographed before and after.
• Guardsman HEPA bypass units - clogged prefilter causing negative pressure on the blower. The HEPA bypass draws 15-20% of total airflow through a dedicated filter path. When the prefilter loads past 0.5 inch w.c. pressure drop, the bypass damper strains and the main blower works harder to maintain static. We see this in homes near the Comal River where cottonwood seed and river-bottom dust load filters faster than the printed 90-day interval. Our fix: replace the prefilter, measure total external static with a digital manometer, and reset the bypass damper to factory spec. The photo record shows the pressure reading on the gauge face.

Our Guardsman Air Duct Cleaning Process

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   Inspection and photo documentation. We access the plenum, duct runs, and all Guardsman components with a borescope camera. Every image is time-stamped and saved to the job record. Tomas Reyes trained at BOCES Westchester to read ductwork the way a doctor reads an X-ray, and that is how we approach every Guardsman system: show the photo first, explain what you’re looking at, then talk about what happens next.
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   Written scope and price. Before any work begins, we deliver a written scope with line-item pricing under Haven Standard Clause 1. The price covers the full system, not per-vent or per-register. No surprises.
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   Component-specific cleaning or repair. We select equipment matched to the Guardsman line: Rotobrush contact cleaning for lined duct, Nikro negative-pressure extraction for metal trunk lines, Abatement Technologies HEPA containment if microbial growth is present. Guardsman UV and electronic components are removed, cleaned, and tested on the bench.
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   Reassembly and operational test. Every connection is draw-banded or sealed with mastic. We run the system and measure temperature rise, static pressure, and airflow at the furthest register. The numbers go in the job record.
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   Photo record delivery and warranty. The customer receives the complete before-and-after photo set, the written scope, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise. If anything is not right, we make it right. That is Haven Standard Clause 5, in writing, not a policy subject to manager approval.

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What Guardsman Air Duct Cleaning Costs in New Braunfels

Guardsman air duct cleaning in New Braunfels typically ranges from $380 to $720 for a complete residential system, depending on what the camera finds. Here is how the price breaks:

What moves the price: accessibility of the air handler, condition of the existing duct seals, whether Guardsman electronic components need bench service, and whether we find collapsed flex or disconnected boots that need repair before cleaning is worthwhile. We do not quote per-vent or publish teaser prices. The number we write is the number you pay. Call (830) 549-6847 for a free inspection and written estimate.

Why New Braunfels Homeowners Call CleanRun Air Duct Cleaning New Braunfels for Guardsman Work

Homeowners in New Braunfels choose us because we document what others guess at. The 365-Day Done Right Promise is a written guarantee, not a slogan. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed under Haven Standard Clause 3: Verified Crews. We also service Lennox, Trane, and Carrier systems, which matters when a home has mixed-brand equipment or when a Guardsman component interfaces with a main HVAC unit we need to understand. Every job since 2013 has started with a written price and ended with a photo record. That is 52,000 homes and zero exceptions.

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