Dryer Vent Cleaning in Innisfil, ON

We clear the lint from the back of the dryer to the outside hood with a rotary brush and a vacuum, replace the crushed foil duct behind the machine with metal, and make sure the flap on the hood opens. For the two-storey with the laundry upstairs and a vent that runs twenty feet through the floor, and the bungalow where the hood has not been looked at since the dryer went in. You get a dryer that finishes a load in one cycle, and one less way for a house to catch fire.

What the Job Involves

We pull the dryer out, disconnect the duct, and run a rotary brush on flexible rods through the full length of the vent with a vacuum catching what comes loose. Then we clear the hood outside, check the flap moves and that a bird has not built in it, and brush from that end to meet the first pass. The foil duct behind the dryer, which crushes and holds lint, gets replaced with rigid or semi-rigid metal and clamped. We run the dryer and check for airflow at the hood.

Long Runs and Gas Dryers

A second-floor laundry means a vent that runs down through a floor cavity and across to an outside wall, with an elbow at each turn where lint stops. That dryer takes two cycles to dry a load, and the lint is sitting beside a heating element. Once a year is right for a family that does laundry every day. On a gas dryer we clean the vent and the duct but do not disconnect or reconnect the gas line, which is work for a licensed gas technician.

What Affects the Price

The length of the run, the number of elbows, and whether the duct behind the dryer or the hood needs replacing. A bungalow with a straight run is a short visit; a two-storey is longer. It is included in a maintenance visit when the house is due. If the dryer still runs long after a clean vent, the dryer is the problem, and we say so.