About Us

The founder of Monster Vac had a problem to solve back in 1988, an HVAC contractor at the time, had a customer who had a fire in their air ducts at a local restaurant. Upon inspection he found that the dirt inside the air ducts ignited and set fire to one of 6 HVAC systems at the restaurant. Inspection of the other 5 systems showed that they were also full of dirt and presented a fire hazard. Realizing he needed to remove this fire hazard from the air ducts, the founder attempted to find someone to clean them. After a thorough search around Colorado, he could not find a single company that had the equipment and skills necessary to clean the system out. After reporting this to the restaurant owner, the owner then said, “why don’t you figure out how to clean these air ducts.”

 

That was the beginning of Monster Vac. Our founder spent months researching the country for equipment, before there was internet, and researching techniques that others had come up with for cleaning air ducts. Our founder settled on a vacuum truck built in Pennsylvania for cleaning furnaces. He then modified the truck for cleaning air ducts and then had to go about teaching himself how to clean air ducts.

 

In 1989 Monster Vac Inc. of Colorado was formed and opened for business in Boulder, Colorado. For our first 3 years in business we were the only company in Colorado cleaning air ducts. At the time, homeowners and commercial buildings just didn’t get their air ducts cleaned. They had never done it before, why do it now? Virtually every call we received was from a customer asking us, “Why should I clean my air ducts?”

We stuck with it, educated the public on the need to clean their air ducts and now almost everyone understands the importance of having a clean air duct system delivering air into their home or commercial building.