Dryer Vent Cleaning in Beacon, NY

Where do dryer vents run in Beacon homes?

Beacon's older houses near Main Street and up toward Mount Beacon were built long before clothes dryers, so every dryer vent in them was added later. That often means a basement laundry with a run that snakes along the joists to a hole in the foundation, or a dryer squeezed into a kitchen or closet with a short run through a side wall. Old houses divided into apartments may have several dryers, each with its own vent.

Newer townhouses and apartment buildings are a different problem. The laundry sits inside the unit, and the vent may run up to the roof or across a ceiling to an outside wall, a long way from where anyone can check it.

What does a Beacon dryer vent cleaning cover?

Your Neighbor's Air Care clears the whole run, from the transition hose behind the dryer through the duct in the wall, floor or ceiling, to the hood outside, and cleans the lint trap housing inside the dryer. Airflow is checked at the hood before and after. A crushed hose or a hood clogged by a nest is photographed so you can see it for yourself.

What signs tell you a Beacon dryer vent is clogged?

• Jeans still damp after a full cycle
• A hot laundry closet
• Cycles that seem to get longer every month
• Lint on the ground below the outside hood
• A flap on the hood that hardly moves

The guide to the signs of a clogged dryer vent explains each one.

Why not just clean the lint screen?

The screen is worth cleaning every load. But lint slips past it into the trap housing and the duct, and the duct is the part a homeowner cannot reach. In an apartment where the vent runs to the roof, it may never have been cleaned since it was put in.