Dryer Vent Cleaning & Inspection

A dryer vent looks like the simplest thing in the house, and that is exactly why most of them are cleaned badly. A leaf-blower jammed into the wall cap, a quick rod-and-run, a "looks clear" at the door — that is the industry standard, and at Chimney Standard we built our reputation by refusing it. We clean dryer vents the way we clean six-figure chimney systems: scoped, measured, documented, and proven. The same crews and the same exacting standard, in metros from the Texas Gulf to the Pacific Northwest.

Here is what compacted lint actually does. It chokes the exhaust, so the dryer runs two and three cycles to finish one load, baking the heating element and shortening the life of an appliance you paid real money for. It traps the moisture that should be leaving the house, so it backs up as humidity into a laundry room and feeds mildew. And — the part nobody likes to say out loud — superheated lint behind a stalled airflow is one of the leading causes of residential fire. The U.S. Fire Administration ties roughly 2,900 home fires a year to clothes dryers, and failure to clean is the number-one factor. Premium isn't a luxury here. It's the margin between a clean run and a claim.

Our process is deliberate. We open the system at both ends, pull the appliance, and run a counter-rotating rotary brush with simultaneous air-whip through the full duct — transition, in-wall run, every elbow, and the exterior or roof termination. A HEPA-filtered vacuum captures the debris instead of blowing it into your living space. Where the run is long, multi-elbow, or roof-terminated, we treat it as the harder job it is rather than pretending the easy method reaches it. Then we measure: an anemometer reading on the exhaust before and after, so the result isn't an opinion, it's a number you keep.

What sets the PCE job apart is the finish. We re-seat the dryer tight to the wall without crushing the transition, replace a kinked foil hose with code-compliant semi-rigid aluminum if we find one, confirm the exterior damper opens fully on airflow and seals when off, and leave the termination guarded against birds and rodents. You get a written airflow certificate and photo documentation of the before/after — the kind of record a discerning homeowner, a property manager, or an insurer actually respects.

This hub also covers the heavier cousins of a standard clean for clients who need them: deep cleaning of packed, long, or roof-run ducts; rooftop dryer vent cleaning from the jack down; lint-trap and blower-housing cleaning inside the dryer cabinet where fine lint bypasses the screen; commercial, laundromat, and multi-unit stacked-riser exhaust cleaning; and emergency same-day clearing of a fully blocked vent throwing no-dry or overheat faults. Whatever the configuration, the standard is identical.

Because PCE is a national brand, you get one craftsmanship benchmark whether you're in Dallas, Denver, or Charlotte — not the luck of the draw on a local subcontractor. We schedule tight windows, arrive in branded vehicles, protect the floors, and clean up completely. The premium isn't in the price tag; it's in the airflow number we hand you and the fact that you don't think about this vent again until the next scheduled service.