Dryer Vent Cleaning in West Palm Beach, FL

What dryer vents are actually like in West Palm Beach

The historic districts, El Cid, Flamingo Park and Northwood, are twenties and thirties houses where the laundry was added generations after the house was built. Vent runs in those homes were improvised, and we regularly find them routed through a crawl space, a closet, or in a few cases terminating into an attic with no exit at all.

Out west, Ibis and Andros Isle are modern planned communities with two storey homes, upstairs laundry rooms and long roof runs. Different century, same physics: the longer the run, the more lint falls out of the air before it gets outside.

The four signs worth acting on

You do not need an inspection to know whether this applies to you. Any one of these means the run is restricted, and they get worse in the order listed.

• Two cycles to dry one load. The most common first symptom, and the one people live with longest. A dryer that cannot exhaust cannot remove moisture, so it just keeps running.
• The top of the dryer is hot to the touch. Heat that should be leaving the house is staying in the machine. This is the point at which the appliance starts wearing out early.
• The laundry room feels humid. A dryer moves several liters of water out of your clothes per load. If the room is damp, that water is not reaching the outside.
• A burning or hot-lint smell. Stop using the dryer. This is lint reaching a temperature it should never reach, and it is the last warning you get.

What the job involves

1. Airflow reading at the termination. We measure what is actually coming out before touching anything, so the improvement is a number and not an opinion.
2. Pull and inspect the transition. The flexible hose behind the machine is where a surprising share of blockages sit, crushed flat by a dryer pushed back to fit the space.
3. Rotating brush and compressed air through the full run. Worked from both ends where the configuration allows, so lint is carried out rather than pushed into a corner.
4. Clear the exterior hood and free the damper. Nests, paint, leaf debris and corroded flaps are cleared here. A clean duct with a blocked exit is still a blocked vent.
5. Second airflow reading. Same instrument, same place. If the number has not moved, the job is not finished.

Dryer vent repair and installation in West Palm Beach

Some runs are past cleaning. Foil or plastic flex hose in the wall or attic, a joint that has come apart, a run with more bends than the dryer is rated for, or a new laundry location with no vent at all all mean the duct itself has to change. We replace it with rigid metal duct on the shortest safe route to the outside, seal the joints with foil tape rather than screws that catch lint, and fit a hood with a working damper.

Dryer duct repair, replacement and new installation in West Palm Beach runs $200 to $600, depending on the length of the run and whether it goes through a wall or up through the attic to a roof cap. As with cleaning, you get the figure before we book. More on how we route and what code allows is on our dryer vent and dryer duct installation page.

Where in West Palm Beach we work

We cover all of West Palm Beach and the surrounding Palm Beach County area, including El Cid, Flamingo Park, Northwood, Ibis, Andros Isle and SoSo. Call (813) 300-1379 and we will tell you the price for your run before we book anything.

What it costs

Job	Typical West Palm Beach price
Dryer vent cleaning, standard wall or short run	From $100*
Dryer vent cleaning, long attic or roof run	$100 to $200*
Combined with air duct cleaning	Bundled, quoted together
Dryer vent repair, replacement or new installation	$200 to $600*

* A starting point, not a flat rate. The final figure depends on the length of the run, the number of bends and where it terminates. You get that figure before we book the appointment.