Dryer vent cleaning in Dunn Loring.
Dryer vent cleaning in Dunn Loring is $298, or $199 with a duct cleaning. In 22027’s 1990s houses the hood often sits low on the wall.
- The whole dryer vent line, end to end
- Camera photos of what we find
- Airflow checked at the hood
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Low hoods, deep snow and a lot of gas dryers: Dunn Loring laundry rooms.
Better than nine in ten homes in Dunn Loring’s 22027 are detached houses, and the typical owner’s one dates from 1991. In a house from those years the laundry tends to be on the main floor near the garage or down in the basement, and the dryer vent leaves through the nearest outside wall, often through the framing just above the foundation. That puts the hood a foot or two off the ground, behind the shrubs, right where the leaves pile up every fall.
Snow lands there too. NOAA’s 1991 to 2020 normals give its Vienna weather station, 3.6 miles west, about eighteen and a half inches a winter, and the big storms bury that number: NOAA’s storm records put 23 to 31 inches across Fairfax County in the January 2016 blizzard. A hood that low can spend days under a drift. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue tells people to make sure the outdoor flap opens when the dryer runs, so after a big snow, shovel out the hood before the first load.
Gas does most of the heating here, about seven owner homes in ten, and plenty of those houses dry clothes with gas too. Fire and Rescue says to have a gas dryer’s line and connection checked by a professional, and the day the dryer comes away from the wall is a good day to look at its connector.
Wind is the hood’s other problem. The June 2012 derecho brought gusts estimated near 70 miles an hour through Dunn Loring and dropped limbs across Prosperity Avenue, and a 2017 thunderstorm put a tree on a Metro car at the Dunn Loring station. After a storm like those, walk around and look at the hood: a flap stuck open lets birds in, and one stuck shut sends lint back up the line.
Dunn Loring homes, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Dunn Loring
ZIP 22027 as a whole: every Dunn Loring address. The Dunn Loring Census place is bigger: about three in four of its homes have Vienna mail.
- Median home built1991 Census
- Built before 1980about 3 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 2 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 9 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 7 in 10 Census
- Rentedhardly any Census
- In a single-family house the dryer vent run is often short, and the hose behind the dryer is where the trouble usually is.
What dryer vent cleaning costs in Dunn Loring.
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 Dunn Loring.
The flap doesn’t move while the dryer runs
On most Dunn Loring houses the hood is low on a side or back wall, so it’s a quick check. Start a load and go look. If the flap hangs still, lint, a nest or packed leaves are blocking the line.
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.
It’s been a year
Fire departments around Northern Virginia say once a year, and sooner if clothes start taking longer to dry. If you can’t remember the last dryer vent cleaning, it’s due.
What the fire department says about dryer vents.
Fairfax County
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue tells every household to clean the lint out of the dryer vent pipe once a year, sooner if clothes are taking longer to dry, and to have a gas dryer checked by a professional. Source.
How to pick a dryer vent cleaning company in Dunn Loring.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Do they ask whether the dryer is gas or electric?
Where most houses have gas, plenty of dryers burn it. A company that asks first knows to ease the dryer out without straining the gas connector, and to check it’s sound when the machine goes back.
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.
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Dryer vent cleaning questions from Dunn Loring.
My dryer vent comes out under the deck. Can you clean it?
Yes. A hood under a deck gets cleaned from below, and nobody sees it, so leaves and nests collect there. We clean the line from the back of the dryer to that hood.
Should I run the dryer when nobody’s home?
No. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue says to turn the dryer off when you leave the house or go to bed, and to have the dryer vent cleaned once a year. The yearly part is ours: $298, or included with Comfort+ membership at $199 a year.
How much does dryer vent cleaning cost in Dunn Loring?
$298 booked on its own, $199 added to an air duct cleaning, and included every year with Comfort+ membership at $199 a year.
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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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