Dryer vent cleaning in Triangle.
Dryer vent cleaning in Triangle costs $298, or $199 booked with a duct cleaning. We photograph your line before we clean it.
- The whole dryer vent line, end to end
- Camera photos of what we find
- Airflow checked at the hood
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Triangle dryer vents run from 1950s basements, 2004 upstairs laundries and Port O’Dumfries rows.
Around Graham Park, on streets platted from 1946 through the 1950s, the laundry often ended up in a basement or a utility room, and the dryer vent line became whatever reached the nearest outside wall. Houses that age are where a foil or vinyl accordion hose tends to linger behind the dryer, crushed flat when the machine got shoved back, and where the hood outside can sit just above the dirt.
In the subdivisions platted in 2001 and 2004, Kerill Woods, Cramers Ridge and Lionsfield Valley among them, the laundry room often shares a floor with the bedrooms. From there the dryer vent line threads between floor joists or climbs into the attic before it finds daylight, and every elbow along the way is a ledge for lint. Twenty years of towels through a run like that packs it tight.
About one Triangle address in eight is actually inside the Town of Dumfries, including the Port O’Dumfries townhouses on Masthead Trail and Port Hope Point, built 1974 to 1988 per Town records. With walls shared on both sides, a middle unit’s dryer vent line has to reach the front or back wall, or the roof, and a long hidden run fills faster than a short one. In the Townsquare Court apartments the line may run through walls the building’s owner controls, so ask before booking.
Triangle’s weather gives the dryer vent hood its own job. Prince William County Fire and Rescue says to keep the dryer vent clear of snow during and after a snowstorm, and Triangle gets them: the January 2016 blizzard left 18.5 inches near Dumfries, and the January 2025 storm ended in 45 mph gusts and blowing snow. A low hood is the first thing a drift buries. Wind matters too: thunderstorms downed trees around Route 1, Cabin Road and Locust Shade Drive in August 2022. After a storm, run the dryer and step outside; the flap should lift and blow warm air.
Triangle homes, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Triangle
- Median home built2003 Census
- Built before 1980about 4 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 5 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 6 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 8 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 4 in 10 Census
- Newer houses often put the laundry upstairs, so the dryer vent crosses a ceiling or climbs to the roof on its way out.
What dryer vent cleaning costs in Triangle.
The same prices as everywhere we work: $298 for dryer vent cleaning on its own, $199 when it’s added to an air duct cleaning, and included every year with Comfort+ membership at $199 a year.
- Dryer vent cleaning, on its own$298
- Dryer vent cleaning, added to an air duct cleaning$199
- Comfort+ membership, dryer vent cleaning every year included$199 a year
The price covers the whole dryer vent line, from the back of the dryer to the hood outside, with camera photos of what we find, a dated invoice, and before and after photos of your line when we can get a clear shot. Anything past the cleaning, like a new hose or a guard on the hood, you get the price first.
With Comfort+ membership, $199 a year covers the dryer vent cleaning every year, plus a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection, a heating maintenance visit and a cooling maintenance visit, and we tell you when each one is due.
When a dryer vent needs cleaning in Triangle.
The flap outside stays shut while the dryer runs
If the hood flap won’t lift, lint, ice, a nest or storm damage is holding it. In a 2000s house with an upstairs laundry, that usually means the line behind it is packed too.
The house is newer, the dryer vent isn’t clean
A 2005 house has run twenty years of laundry through its dryer vent, often a long run from an upstairs laundry room, and plenty have never been cleaned end to end.
Towels take two cycles
The first thing most people notice. When the dryer vent is packed, the damp air has nowhere to go, so the clothes stay wet and the dryer runs hot.
What the fire department says about dryer vents.
Prince William County
Prince William County Fire and Rescue says to clean the lint out of the dryer vent pipe once a year, to check the venting behind the dryer for damage or restriction, and to have the dryer inspected if clothes take longer than normal to dry or come out hotter than usual. Source.
How to pick a dryer vent cleaning company in Triangle.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Can they reach a hood high on the back wall or on the roof?
On a 2000s two-story house or a Port O’Dumfries townhouse, the dryer vent hood can be two floors up or on the roof. Ask how they’ll clean from that end, and whether the photos cover the hidden middle.
Do they clean the whole line, end to end?
Brushing the first few feet from the laundry room isn’t a dryer vent cleaning. Ask whether they clean from the back of the dryer to the hood outside, and how they get the lint out of the house instead of pushing it further down.
Do they show you what’s inside the line?
Camera photos of the inside of your dryer vent line are how you know it needed cleaning, and before and after photos are how you know the job was done. Ask to see them, and for a dated invoice if your HOA wants proof.
What our customers say.
Aaron is great ! He explained to me about how they clean the dryer vent, he replaced my old one with a flex type vent duct, he showed me the camera he used to see into the dryer vent. Very professional answered all my questions . Definitely 10 out of 10.
5.0 stars across 884 Google reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Dryer vent cleaning questions from Triangle.
Who books the dryer vent cleaning in a Triangle rental?
Usually the owner, though your lease says for sure. More than a third of Triangle homes are rented, and a dated invoice from the visit is what a landlord or an HOA asks to see.
Can you clean the dryer vent in my Quantico base house?
No. Family housing aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico belongs to Liberty Military Housing, which maintains it, so call Liberty or the base housing office. Off base, with Triangle mail, it’s $298 on its own.
How much does dryer vent cleaning cost in Triangle?
$298 booked on its own, $199 added to an air duct cleaning, and included every year with Comfort+ membership at $199 a year.
Dryer vent cleaning in the towns next door.
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Get the dryer vent cleaning on the calendar.
Call, or book online and pick a window. Under an hour in most homes. If you’d rather have your dryer vent cleaning done every year without keeping track, ask about Comfort+ membership on the same call.
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