Cleaning Your Dryer Vent Exhaust Pipe

One of the most important areas in home maintenance that is often overlooked by homeowners in Rhode Island, is Dryer Vent Cleaning. This one area alone has resulted in as much as 16,000 house fires annually. This type of homeowner loss and inconvenience is the result of a residential dryer vent not being adequately cleaned on a regularly basis. Heat can buildup in a blocked dryer vent which can ingite the highly flammable lint that is supposed to be expelled through the dryer ventillation system, resulting in the loss of a home and possibly even worse the loss of lives.

One of the major functions of a dryer is the elimination of moisture recovered during the heating of damp clothing. This moisture is held in the warm air produced by the dryer as humidity, and is normally expelled to the outdoors through the dryer's vent. If this humid air can not be adequately removed due to insuffiicent ventillation by a blocked dryer vent, not only can it create a fire, it also causes longer drying times. This means you are forced to pay more money each month for those extended drying times. Also, the excessive moisture in the home can result in developing mold in the home which creates further problems.

This moisture can also condense into pools of water in the dryer vent, eventually leaking out. So, any moisture accumulation inside the dryer ducting is a sign of poor venting which should be looked into.

Did you know that flammable lint, dust and dirt accumulate quite rapidly inside a dryer vent. A full load of wet clothes contains about a half gallon of water. Lint is created from the clothes as water is removed during the drying process. This lint will build up in crevices deep down inside the lint filter trap,and all along the dryer vent hose.

The Dryer Cleaning Process - Saves Lives And Money.

Cleaning your lint screen is simply not enough to ensure an efficient, safe dryer. Even a cleaned lint screen traps only 75% of the lint produced inside a dryer. The rest of the lint builds up over time inside the dryer vent, becoming a fire hazard, as dryer lint is highly flammable and has the potential to ignite at any time.

We offer the air jet expulsion method or the agitator brush action method as technology for getting rid of lint build up in your dryer vent pipes. In some instances putting an agitating brush into a flexible hose may not be advised as to its fragile condition. In this instance we can insert an air jet which will blow the lint out of the line into a recepticle at the end of the dryer vent.

We also provide video inspection of your lines to examine the inside of the pipe when there is an obstruction or break in the vent piping to determine the nature of the obstruction or blockage.

A dryer with restricted airflow also runs significantly longer, causing utility costs to rise, increasing the need for repairs and decreasing the life of the dryer. By cleaning your dryer vent, we can help ensure your clothes dryer is both safe and energy efficient.

Cleaning your dryer saves time and money!

Imagine how much time, money, and energy you will save when you don't have to run the clothes through the dryer a second time to get the clothes dry. Which means you you don't have to wait 2 hours to get a full load dried. By eliminate two full cylces down to one, this is cutting your dryer time and costs in half. Reduced electric or gas bills are the benefit of keeping the dryer exhaust vent clean

It should also be mentioned that running a dryer under those conditions puts a strain on the life of the dryer. There are belts and plastic gears inside the dryer that wear faster under excessive heat build up due to restricted air flow. Therefore whenever the flow of air is restricted it heats the dryer up to unsafe conditions and that means frequent breakdowns and premature failure of the machine shorting the life of the dryer and means you will have to purchase another dryer. Obviously and most importantly is the safety of your family and the worse case senario as we have emphasized here already is a dryer fire which can be most catastrophic.