Dryer Vent Cleaning

HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU CLEAN YOUR DRYER VENT?

A dryer vent needs to be cleaned regularly to enhance the dryer's efficiency. 

We recommend having your dryer vent cleaned every 1-3 years.

Regular dryer vent cleaning helps to remove lint and other dirt and debris that are obstructing the dryer performance.

Signs that it is time to clean your dryer vent:  

  1. Your clothes are taking much longer than usual to dry

  2. Both your clothing and the dryer exterior get very hot

  3. Presence of debris around the dryer hose  

  4. The vent hood flap does not open properly  

  5. You notice a strange burning smell on the clothes  

  6. The laundry room feels excessively hot when the dryer is running.  

    Very few people realize the importance of clothes dryer fire prevention, however, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there are an estimated annual 15,500 fires, 10 deaths and 10 injuries due to clothes dryer fires. Several hundred people a year are also subjected to carbon monoxide poisoning from improper dryer vent setups. The financial costs come to nearly $100,000,000 per year. In some cases faulty appliances are to blame, but many fires can be prevented with proper dryer venting.   
    How a Clothes Dryer Fire Occurs Lint accumulation and reduced airflow feed on each other to provide conditions ripe for a fire. Lint is a highly combustible material, which, interestingly enough, is one of the ingredients in a recipe for home-made fire starters. A number of dryer vent problems contribute to this. 

    Traditionally, most clothes dryers were in the basement. However, nowadays many newer homes tend to have dryers located away from an outside wall in bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens and hall closets. These new locations mean dryers tend to be vented longer distances and vents are generally installed with sharp turns and bends to accommodate the structure of the home. As a result, dryer vents are harder to reach, and also create more places for lint to gather. The ideal solution is to have short, straight, dryer duct venting. However, a dryer vent booster, while not the ideal approach, can improve your dryer venting in cases where your venting is longer and/or has more bends than it should. In addition to creating a fire hazard, if the venting is too long and/or has two many bends, it will cause your dryer to take much longer than necessary to dry loads. 

Dryer vent cleaning can be added on the day of service with Air Duct Cleaning for an additional $75 or $175 if done alone. 

Residential service only and Includes cleaning from where the vent exhausts outside to where it connects to the back of the dryer. 

We cannot handle vents that exhaust out needing a ladder over 20ft to access it, or vents on the roof or under a low deck. 

The dryer need to be operable and we do not clean or repair the dryer itself.  

The main problem we run into is the vent being wet. If you think yours could be wet, then do not use it for a few days, because the lint will not come out unless its dry.

There is a $25 surcharge if our extension ladder is required.

Please text a picture to 410-536-1273 of the dryer vent location outside to verify if we can handle it, if you are unsure

We cannot guarantee dryer vent cleaning