Dryer Vent Cleaning

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. 

Signs that it is time to clean your dryer vent: 

Your clothes are taking much longer than usual to dry; 

Both your clothing and the dryer exterior get very hot; 

Presence of debris around the dryer hose; 

The vent hood flap does not open properly; 

The dryer vent has not been inspected for more than a year; 

You notice a strange burning smell on the clothes; 

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

Dryer Vent Cleaning Service $150 alone, or $75 when combined with Air Duct Cleaning Services

• Flat rate includes cleaning from where the vent exhausts outside to where it connects to the back of the dryer
• Residential service only
• Cannot handle vents that exhaust out over 20ft off of the ground, on the roof or under a low deck
• the dryer need to be operable and we do not clean or repair the dryer itself
• 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
• If you are in need of dryer vent cleaning services alone our service area is limited to Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel counties and it is a flat rate of 150.00 
• We cannot guarantee dryer vent cleaning