Air duct cleaning
Fits best: a methodical owner comfortable in attics and crawlspaces.
Pros
- ✓Good ticket and healthy margin
- ✓No special license to start
- ✓Works all year
Cons
- !Industry has a scammy reputation to overcome
- !Reviews and steady marketing decide who wins locally
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 12 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 25 jobs a month. Add dryer vent cleaning for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add HVAC partners and commercial work.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Add HVAC partners and commercial work.
The details
- Vehicle
- Van or truck
- Repeat customers
- Medium
- Licensing
- Low
- Season
- Year-round
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
Vacuum collection system $3K–25K; NADCA certification.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (25), times 12 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: published industry sources.