Dryer vent cleaning
If a load takes two cycles to dry, the vent run is usually the reason. We clear the whole run from the dryer to the exterior hood and show you what came out.
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Nobody thinks about a dryer vent until the dryer stops behaving. These are the things customers describe just before they call us.
The short answer
We disconnect the dryer, clear the transition behind it, and work the full duct run out to the exterior hood using rotary brushing and vacuum extraction. We check that the exterior flap opens freely, reconnect the dryer, and confirm it is venting properly before we leave. You see the lint that came out.
The dryer vent is a separate run from your HVAC ductwork, with its own access points and its own equipment, so it is quoted separately from air duct cleaning. Many customers book both in one visit.
From our own jobs
Know exactly what you get
Two cycles to dry?
The inspection is free, and it tells you whether the problem is the vent or the appliance.
How we price it
A ground-floor dryer venting straight through an exterior wall is a very different job from a run crossing a house.
Wall terminations are straightforward. Roof terminations need safe access and take longer.
Every elbow slows airflow and collects lint, and adds work to clear properly.
Stacked units, tight closets and built-in cabinetry all add time before any cleaning starts.
A run that has never been cleared holds far more than one done a couple of years ago.
Doing both in one visit is usually more economical than two separate appointments.
A dryer works by moving heated air through wet clothes and pushing the moisture outside. Everything in that job depends on air actually leaving the building. When lint narrows the run, less air moves, moisture stays in the drum, and the machine compensates by running longer.
Drying times stretch. A load that used to take one cycle needs a second. The laundry room feels warm and humid while the dryer runs, because the moisture that should be going outside is staying inside. Clothes come out hotter than they used to.
The lint trap catches a good share of what comes off your clothes, but not all of it. What passes through settles along the duct walls, and it accumulates fastest at bends and at the transition behind the dryer, where the airflow changes direction. Cleaning the trap after every load is worth doing and does not reach any of that.
It depends on how much laundry the household does, how long the run is, and how many bends it has. A large family with a long run may want it looked at yearly; a couple with a short wall termination can go considerably longer. Rather than working from a calendar, watch the drying times: when they start creeping up, the run is telling you something.
Common questions
The clearest sign is drying time. If a normal load needs two cycles, or the dryer runs noticeably longer than it used to, the run is worth checking. Lint collecting around the dryer or the exterior hood, a laundry room that feels humid while the dryer runs, and an exterior flap that does not open fully all point the same way.
Most residential runs take under an hour once we have access to the dryer. A long run, a roof termination, or a stacked unit in a tight closet takes longer. The inspection tells you what to expect before you book.
It depends on the length of the run, where it terminates, how many bends it has, and how accessible the dryer is. We do not publish a flat price because a short wall termination and a run crossing a house are not the same job. Booking it alongside duct cleaning is usually more economical than two visits.
No. The dryer vent is a separate run with its own access points and its own equipment, so it is quoted separately. Plenty of customers schedule both in one visit, which is easier than two appointments.
You can reach the transition behind the dryer and the first stretch of duct with a brush kit, and that is genuinely worth doing. What a kit will not reach is a long run, the bends where lint collects most, or the exterior hood. If drying times are not improving after a home attempt, the restriction is further along.
It helps, and it is worth continuing, but the trap does not catch everything. What passes through settles along the duct walls and builds up at bends and at the transition. That accumulation is what a vent cleaning addresses.
It sometimes is. Runs that are too long, have too many bends, use flexible foil duct, or were crushed behind the dryer will keep restricting airflow no matter how clean they are. We will tell you if that is what we find, and that is a job for whoever can reroute it rather than for us.
Where safe access is available, yes. If it is not, we will say so rather than improvise, and you will not be charged for a job we could not do properly.