Breath Easy with our Dryer Vent Cleaning

Clothes dryers require an open pathway to vent the hot air, moisture and gases that result from drying clothing.

Did you know that every load of laundry yields approximately two to three litres of water that must be exhausted from inside the house to the outside?

This pathway or dryer duct can be blocked by lint accumulation due to any of several factors – normal lint build-up over time, duct too narrow, duct too long, too many turns, etc. Sometimes there can even be an unusual blockage such as a bird nest in the duct. For this reason, most dryer manufacturers, such as Maytag, recommend that residential dryer ducts be cleaned annually for fire-prevention and energy-saving reasons.

Reasons to clean your dryer vents

Fabrics taking forever to dry

Potential lint fires

Higher utility bills

Water damage inside walls from duct blockages

Don't Forget About Your Bathroom Fans

Have you ever looked up into your bathroom fan? Those fans work every day and can get quite dirty. Dirt building up and slowly impedes the air flow making your fan work harder to remove the steam.

Just like a dryer vent we can clean them too! We remove the fan cover and clean out the fan, wash the cover and then run our skipper ball through the ducting pulling all the contaminants outside.

How Do We Clean Dryer Vents?

First, we clean the inside of the dryer with compressed air and a vacuum.

Then we pull out the dryer (if necessary) and clean the transition hose that goes from the dryer to the wall duct.

We run our reverse skipper ball line through the dryer duct forcing all the lint and debris outside. The skipper ball bores it’s way through the cloggs and navigates 90 angles with ease.

If it is accessible, we check out the route of the dryer duct either in your crawlspace or attic.

Dryer vent cleaning usually takes 30-45 minutes. If we are already there for a furnace and duct cleaning, our equipment would be setup and it would take less than 10-20 min.