Dryer vent cleaning
Whole-home duct cleaning
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Sanitizing & deodorizingWhole-system duct and dryer vent check with before-and-after photos - you see exactly what came out of your vents
That "$99 whole-house special" is a bait ad - the real number appears once they are in your hallway, or the "clean" is a shop-vac at the register. We photograph the inside of your ducts before and after instead.
Fast, Reliable Dryer Vent Cleaning Across Roswell
Dryer vent cleaning in Roswell typically runs $140 – $280 for a standard single-family home, and most jobs are finished in 60 – 90 minutes. If your dryer is taking two cycles to dry a load, the vent is usually the problem, not the dryer. We serve every part of Roswell, from split-levels off Holcomb Bridge Road to ranches near Canton Street. Call us at (762) 769-7145 and we’ll give you a written price before any work starts.
The houses here run their AC hard from May through September, and dryers work just as hard. Lint builds up in the vent, airflow drops, and the dryer runs longer and hotter. That’s not just an efficiency problem. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, clogged dryer vents are a leading cause of residential dryer fires. In Roswell’s older homes, where vent runs snake through crawlspaces and behind finished walls, the risk is higher because the lint has more places to collect before anyone notices.
Why Hollis Air Duct Alpharetta Is Roswell’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
We’ve been cleaning dryer vents in Roswell long enough to know what’s behind the walls of a 1980s split-level versus a newer Craftsman-style infill off Crabapple Road. Our Dryer Vent Cleaning team shows up with professional-grade equipment, not a hardware store shop vac. You get a written price before we touch the vent, a background-checked technician in uniform, and a 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If the vent re-clogs or something we installed fails within a year, we come back and make it right at no charge. That’s the Garrison Standard, and it applies to every job in Roswell, no exceptions.
Roy Castellanos oversees the work personally, and the standard he holds the crew to is simple: arrive inside the quoted window, explain what you’re doing in plain English, do the work by the book, and leave the laundry room cleaner than you found it. Roswell homeowners call us back because we don’t treat a 22-foot crawlspace vent run like a 5-foot straight shot. We inspect, measure, and show you what we found before we call the job done.
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Dryer Vent Inspection in Roswell
Dryer Vent Inspection in Roswell homes is where we start, especially when the dryer is in a laundry closet on an interior wall and the vent disappears into the ceiling or floor. A proper inspection means running a camera through the full length of the vent, checking every connection, bend, and the exterior hood. We’re looking for crushed flex duct, disconnected joints, rust, pest intrusion, and lint accumulation you can’t see from the laundry room. In Roswell’s 1970s-90s housing stock, we regularly find original flex duct that has sagged in a crawlspace and is holding moisture along with lint. An inspection typically runs $85 – $140 when bundled with a cleaning, and it tells us whether a simple cleaning will hold or whether the vent itself needs to be replaced.
What Roswell homeowners don’t always realize is that a clogged dryer vent can actively pull air back into the living space. In neighborhoods like Martin’s Landing and Willow Springs, dryer vents often share wall cavities with undersized HVAC returns from the 1970s-90s. When the vent is restricted, the dryer’s exhaust pressure can push lint and moisture toward those returns instead of outside. That means the pine pollen and fine leaf litter outside are getting a second path into your ductwork. An inspection shows us whether that’s happening in your home.
Signs You Need an Inspection
Clothes take longer than 40 minutes to dry, the laundry room feels humid while the dryer runs, or you smell a musty odor near the dryer. Any of these in a Roswell home with mature oaks and pines nearby means it’s time to look inside the vent, not just clean the lint trap.
What the Camera Shows
We show you the footage. You’ll see exactly how much lint is in the vent, where the bends are, and whether the exterior hood is sealed shut. When Roswell homeowners see a flex duct sagging in a crawlspace with a belly full of wet lint, they understand why a quick blow-out wouldn’t have fixed it.
Commercial Dryer Vent Cleaning in Roswell
Commercial Dryer Vent Cleaning in Roswell covers apartment complexes, laundromats, salons, gyms, and any property with multiple dryers running daily. The volume of lint a commercial dryer produces in a month can exceed what a residential dryer produces in a year, and the vent runs are often longer, with more bends and more connections. We clean commercial vents on a documented schedule, with before-and-after airflow readings and a written report. Commercial pricing in Roswell generally runs $350 – $900 per vent stack depending on the length of the run, the number of dryers served, and access conditions. Multi-stack buildings off Holcomb Bridge Road or along Alpharetta Highway typically fall in the $500 – $750 range per stack.
Property managers in Roswell bring us in for a few reasons. Fire code compliance is one. The National Fire Protection Association requires commercial dryer exhaust systems to be inspected and cleaned on a regular schedule, and insurance carriers often want documentation. The second reason is simpler: clogged commercial vents drive up utility costs and lead to dryer failures that are far more expensive than a scheduled cleaning. Roy and the crew handle multi-unit properties the same way they handle single-family homes: written price, scheduled window, documented results.
Multi-Unit Scheduling
We work with property managers to schedule each vent stack on a rotation, so tenants aren’t without laundry service all at once. We provide a log showing each unit, the date of service, airflow before and after, and any repairs made. That log is what your insurance carrier wants to see.
Documented Airflow Readings
Every commercial job includes airflow measurements at the dryer connection before and after. We record CFM at each point and note any sections of duct that need repair or replacement. If a vent can’t reach proper airflow after cleaning, we tell you why and give you a written price to fix it. No vague recommendations.
Trusted Brands We Service in Roswell
We service and clean dryer vents connected to all major brands, but the equipment we bring to your Roswell home is what matters more. We run Rotobrush rotary brush systems for residential vents and Nikro negative-air machines for larger commercial runs. For filtration and air quality work, we stock products from Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Guardsman. That means if we find your dryer vent is pulling pollen back into the home through a shared wall cavity, we can address the filtration side too, not just tell you to buy a filter somewhere else. We keep common replacement parts on our trucks so a vent cap or hood replacement doesn’t turn into a two-week wait.
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AfterCommon Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Roswell Homes
- Original 1970s flex duct still in place. Most homes built before 1990 off Alpharetta Highway and Holcomb Bridge Road still have the foil flex duct that was installed when the house was new. In Roswell’s humid crawlspaces, that material sags, collects condensation, and traps lint in the sag. Cleaning it helps, but if we don’t replace it, the lint returns within months.
- Vent hoods sealed shut by exterior painting. Roswell has a lot of brick ranches, and painters often caulk or paint right over the dryer vent hood without realizing it. The vent becomes a dead end, and the dryer pushes lint and moisture back into the laundry room. Our inspection catches this on the first visit.
- Pine pollen recontamination. In neighborhoods like Martin’s Landing and Willow Springs, loblolly pines and mature oaks produce so much pollen in spring that it fills vents and ducts even when the dryer isn’t running. If attic insulation isn’t sealed around return boots, that pollen gets pulled into the system constantly. We seal those boots as part of the fix.
- Long crawlspace runs with multiple bends. A 22-foot vent with two 90-degree bends, which we see regularly in Roswell’s split-levels, has far more surface area for lint to accumulate than a short, straight run. These vents need camera inspection and often need the final section replaced with rigid duct to perform correctly.
Pricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Roswell, GA
Standard residential dryer vent cleaning in Roswell runs $140 – $280. A longer vent run through a crawlspace with multiple bends or a second-story laundry room will land at the higher end of that range. If we find the flex duct needs replacement, that’s a separate written quote, typically $180 – $400 depending on the length and access. Vent cap replacement adds $60 – $120. The price we quote over the phone is the price on the invoice, because we give the quote for the system, not per vent, and we don’t change it when the technician walks in the door. Call (762) 769-7145 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Roswell
Our crews handle Dryer Vent Cleaning in Roswell and the surrounding area every week. If you’re in Alpharetta, Duluth, Canton, or Suwanee, we can schedule your job with the same written pricing and the same 365-Day Done Right Promise. Scheduling is coordinated from our Atlanta metro office, and crews cover Roswell and nearby cities on a regular rotation.
Serving Roswell, GA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Roswell area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Dryer Vent Cleaning in Roswell
Pine pollen from Roswell’s loblolly pines enters your home through open doors, window screens, and the HVAC system, then settles in the laundry closet and gets drawn into the dryer’s intake. If the dryer vent shares a wall cavity with an undersized HVAC return, the negative pressure can pull that pollen-laden air into the return ductwork. The result is a dryer vent that clogs with a fine yellow-green dust and house air that feels constantly dusty. Sealing the return boots and keeping the dryer vent clear are the two most effective fixes we see in Roswell homes. Call (762) 769-7145 and we’ll inspect both in one visit.
Replace it after cleaning, and here’s why. The cleaning removes the lint that’s already packed into the old flex duct, but if we clean first and then replace, we don’t risk shredding a brittle duct during the cleaning process. In most 1980s split-levels in Roswell, the original flex duct has been sagging in a crawlspace for 30-plus years. We clean the system, show you the camera footage, then give you a written quote for rigid duct replacement. Trying to clean a deteriorated flex duct and leave it in place just means you’ll be calling us again in six months.
In Willow Springs and other Roswell neighborhoods with mature pines, the most common cause is unsealed attic insulation around the return boots. The dryer vent may have been cleaned thoroughly, but if the HVAC return is pulling attic air that’s full of pollen and fine dust, that material migrates right back into the vent. The second cause is leaving the original flex duct in place. If the duct sags and collects moisture, it re-collects lint almost immediately. We seal return boots and replace bad duct sections when needed, which is why our work carries a 365-day guarantee. Call us back at (762) 769-7145 and we’ll make it right.
Every 12 months. In Roswell, the combination of spring pollen, summer humidity, and fall leaf litter means your dryer vent is working against more airborne debris than a home in a newer subdivision with fewer mature trees. If you dry more than four loads a week or have a crawlspace vent run with multiple bends, clean it every 6 – 9 months. After the first cleaning, we’ll tell you what we found and give you a straight answer on what your home actually needs, not a generic recommendation.
Commercial vent cleaning requires different equipment. Residential vents in Roswell can usually be cleaned with a Rotobrush rotary brush system. Commercial runs are longer, larger in diameter, and serve multiple dryers, so they need a Nikro negative-air machine to capture lint at the source and move it out under negative pressure. That’s the difference between pushing lint around and removing it. We bring the right equipment for the job and document airflow before and after, which is what your insurance carrier wants to see. Call (762) 769-7145 for a commercial quote in Roswell.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Alpharetta, serving Roswell and the surrounding metro area with written pricing and the 365-Day Done Right Promise on every job.