Dryer vent cleaning. Faster dry times. Lower fire risk.

Once a year for typical households. Twice a year for homes with pets, large families, or vent runs longer than 25 feet. The signs to watch for are dry times creeping up and the dryer running hotter than normal — both mean the vent is restricting airflow.

You can do a partial job from one end with a 10-foot brush. The full vent run is usually 15–30 feet with elbows, and the lint past the first elbow needs rotary brushing with vacuum collection to get clean. We do the full run plus the lint screen frame, which is where most house fires actually start.

Flexible foil and plastic vents trap lint in every ridge, sag in the middle, and tear easily. They are also no longer code in most jurisdictions — UL and the IRC require rigid metal vent for the entire concealed run. We replace failed flexible vent with rigid aluminum during the cleaning visit.

Yes — roof-vented dryers run $249 instead of $149 because we work from the roof. We also inspect the roof termination cap (often missing the backdraft damper) and remove bird nests, which are common in San Diego County rooftop vents.

Same skills — confined space cleaning, brush-and-vacuum technique, and combustion safety. Dryer vent fires and chimney fires are the two leading sources of vented fires in residential homes. Most CSIA-certified sweeps offer both.