Dryer duct cleaning for long and second-floor runs

What dryer duct cleaning covers

Your dryer vent is three parts: the flexible connector behind the dryer, the duct that runs through the house, and the hood outside. Most lint ends up in the middle part, the part you cannot see, especially at elbows and joints.

We clean the whole duct with a rotary brush on flexible rods, working from inside and from the hood outside, while a HEPA vacuum pulls the lint out. Then we measure airflow at the hood again so you can see the result in feet per minute.

When a run counts as long

• Second-floor laundry venting down through a wall or out a gable
• Interior laundry rooms 15 feet or more from the nearest outside wall
• Basement runs crossing the house to reach daylight, common in older Portsmouth, Kittery and Exeter homes
• Runs with three or more elbows, each of which traps lint

The residential building code used in New Hampshire limits a dryer exhaust duct to 35 feet, reduced for each bend, unless the dryer maker allows more. Longer and bendier runs clog faster, which is why they need regular cleaning.

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Signs the duct needs cleaning

• Loads take more than one cycle to dry
• The dryer or laundry room gets very hot
• The outside flap barely opens when the dryer runs
• It has been more than a year, or you do not know when it was last done

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Where we work

Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter, Hampton, Rye, Stratham, Greenland, North Hampton, Durham, Kittery, New Castle, Newington, Newmarket, Hampton Falls, Seabrook, Somersworth, Eliot, York.