Dryer vent cleaning in Upperville.
Dryer vent cleaning in Upperville is $298, dryer to hood, whether the line crosses a thick stone wall on Route 50 or the siding of a 1950s ranch.
- The whole dryer vent line, end to end
- Camera photos of what we find
- Airflow checked at the hood
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Thick old walls, golf-ball hail and drifted snow at the hood: Upperville dryer vents.
Nobody planned a laundry room into Upperville’s oldest houses. The state’s register describes stone, brick and wood frame, a few with log rooms at the core, many stuccoed over, and a wall like that can run well past a foot thick. A dryer vent line has to cross it in a sleeve, or it finds a softer way out: through a frame rear addition, under a porch, or up out of a cellar. Two early brick houses on the highway stand on raised basements, where a dryer pushes its lint up and out through the foundation.
Then there’s the hail. NOAA’s storm database records golf-ball hail near Upperville in August 2011 and again in August 2021, the second time with 60-knot gusts that brought trees and power lines down off Route 50 near Trappe Road. Stones that size crack a plastic louvered hood, and a broken flap either hangs open for birds and wasps or jams shut and traps the lint. After a hailstorm, look at the hood from the yard; a cracked one gets priced before we clean.
Snow buries the low ones. The NOAA gauge near The Plains averages close to 20 inches a winter, and in the January 2016 blizzard a trained spotter in Middleburg measured 34 inches and an NWS employee at Bluemont 36. A hood a foot above grade on a one-story house goes under a drift that deep, and the dryer’s hot, wet air has nowhere to go. Clear it before the first load after a storm.
Plenty of houses here have propane, and some run a propane dryer, which sends burner exhaust down the same line as the lint. Fauquier County Fire Rescue takes requests for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms through a form on its Public Education page, and one outside the laundry room is worth having. On the Loudoun side of 20184, the fire and rescue advice below applies.
What dryer vent cleaning costs in Upperville.
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 Upperville.
Chirping behind the dryer in spring
Birds like a hood with a broken flap, and the state’s register describes a village shaded end to end by old trees. A nest packed into the hood blocks the line as well as lint does. We clear it with the rest of the line and price a guard if you want one.
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.
Loudoun County
Ashburn Volunteer Fire and Rescue, one of the companies in Loudoun County’s fire and rescue system, says the dryer vent, from the back of the dryer to the outside of the house, should be cleaned at least once a year, and that longer drying times are a sign it’s clogged. Source.
How to pick a dryer vent cleaning company in Upperville.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Can they reach the hood on a tall old house?
On a two-and-a-half-story brick or stone house the hood may come out high on a gable wall. Ask whether they bring the ladder to reach it and clean from both ends, and whether the camera photos cover the stretch inside the wall.
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 Upperville.
I rent in Upperville. Can I book the dryer vent cleaning myself?
Yes, it’s $298 whoever books it. The Census Bureau’s survey of 20184, rough at this size, counts most occupied homes as rented, so it comes up often. If the line needs more than cleaning, you get that price in writing to take to the owner.
My dryer vent goes straight out through a stone wall. Can you still clean it?
Yes. We clean it from the dryer side and check it at the hood, and the camera shows the stretch inside the wall, where lint catches on a rough sleeve. If that stretch is foil hose pushed through the stone, rigid metal gets priced first.
How much does dryer vent cleaning cost in Upperville?
$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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