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Signs Your Dryer Vent Is Blocked
Almost nobody calls us about lint. They call about what it is doing:
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One load takes two cycles
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The laundry room gets hot while the dryer runs
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A burning smell during a cycle
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The dryer shuts off partway through
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Lint on the floor behind the dryer
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Barely any lint on the screen
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Weak airflow at the outside vent hood
The two-cycle complaint is the one we hear most, and it is almost always the vent rather than the dryer.
Why a Clogged Dryer Vent Is a Fire Risk
The U.S. Fire Administration estimates about 2,900 clothes dryer fires in residential buildings each year. The leading factor is not mechanical or electrical failure. It is failure to clean.
NFPA guidance is to clean the vent about once a year, and sooner if clothes are taking longer than usual to dry. Drying time is the earliest warning the system gives you, and it usually shows up months before anything smells wrong.
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What a Real Dryer Vent Cleaning Includes
The blockage is rarely in the part you can reach. It is at a turn, or at the termination where you never look.
Coupon Clean vs. Full-System Clean
We get called out behind discount cleanings fairly often, usually after the homeowner paid several times the advertised price and still has the same problem.
Why West Palm Beach Dryer Vents Clog Faster
Two homes on the same street can need completely different service intervals. It is usually a design difference, not a laundry habit.
Older Florida homes put the dryer on an exterior wall. Short run, one elbow, done. Newer construction moved laundry rooms inward, to interior hallways, second floors and the middle of townhouses, so the exhaust has to travel. Florida Building Code caps that run at 35 feet from the transition duct to the outside terminal, and every turn counts against it.
Three sharp turns and you have spent 15 of your 35 feet. A vent already at the edge of its airflow budget does not tolerate lint the way a short straight run does.
That is why condos, townhouses and second-floor laundry rooms need cleaning more often, and we service those, including roof-terminated runs.
The recurring pattern we find in local condos is a long interior run with three or more turns, which means a shorter service interval than the owner expected.
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What We Do, and What Your Quote Depends On
We clean dryer vents. We do not reroute or replace runs, and we would rather say that now than discover it together in your laundry room. If your vent needs more than cleaning, we document the run length, turn count and what is wrong, in writing, so whoever does the work specifies it correctly.
Your quote depends on run length, number of turns, roof or wall termination, access, how much buildup is in there, and whether the transition duct needs replacing. We quote before we start and the number we give you is the number you pay.
Why West Palm Beach Homeowners Choose All Temp Solutions
Choosing the right contractor matters more here than the service itself. You want a team that inspects before it quotes, knows this climate, and tells you the truth about your system instead of selling you something you do not need.
