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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that in 1998, clothes dryers were associated with 15,600 fires, which resulted in 20 deaths and 370 injuries. Fires can occur when lint builds up in the dryer or in the exhaust duct. Lint can block the flow of air, cause excessive heat build-up, and result in a fire in some dryers

 Warning signs of a dryer vent that needs cleaning

• Clothes (especially towels or jeans) take a very long time to dry.

• Clothes seem hotter than usual at the end of a normal cycle.

• Flapper on vent hood doesn't open when dryer is on.

• The outside of the dryer is hot to the touch.

• A minimal amount of lint is captured on the lint screen. 

Beginning in the early 1980's, residential architects began moving the laundry areas of many houses and condos to the "inside" of our homes, no longer located on an exterior wall of the home or in the garage, this design change requires that the dryer vent pipe be run in one of two ways:

1.          The dryer vent pipe is located inside the wall and runs
vertically through your attic and exits through a cap on your
roof, These vents are between 12 and 30 feet long.

2.      The dryer vent pipe is located inside the wall and runs
beneath the foundation of your home and exits through a wall
vent outside the home. These vents are also between 12 and
30 feet long.

Although we now have official "laundry rooms", clothes dryers have to work even harder to exhaust the moisture and lint from each load of clothes. In fact, a single load of bath towels can contain up to a gallon of water when it is removed from the clothes washer.

Clothes dryers have a hard time pushing the lint particles and moisture over these distances which leads to build-up on the interior walls of the vent pipe. Eventually the vent pipe develops so much lint build-up that the hot moist air cannot escape resulting in unusually long drying times and the potential for a clothes dryer fire in your home.

From a house to a complex, we remove lint, birds’ nests and articles of clothing from dryer vents in any building structure.

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