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A job starts at the hood, not the dryer. We check airflow where the vent exits the wall or the roof and write down what we find. Then the dryer gets pulled out, the transition hose comes off, and the rotary brush goes in on a flexible line driven by a drill, with the vacuum running at the open end to catch what the brush breaks loose. The brush works the full length of the duct, elbow by elbow. We clean the transition hose or tell you it needs replacing, vacuum out the lint trap housing and the blower area inside the dryer cabinet, reconnect, and run the dryer to read airflow at the hood again. If the second reading is not better than the first, something is still wrong in the line and we keep going. We work behind gas and electric units, stacked and side-by-side, front-load and top-load, and we reseat the dryer with enough clearance that the hose is not folded against the wall when we leave.

Gilbert and the East Valley suburbs share one build pattern: master-planned subdivisions, slab-on-grade, no basements, so every dryer vent runs horizontally through conditioned space or vertically up through the attic and out a roof jack. Interior laundry rooms get placed for floor-plan convenience, not for duct length. Runs of 15 to 30 ft with three or four elbows are routine, and upstairs laundry in a two-story home adds a full attic rise on top of that. Homes built before the mid-2000s usually still have builder-grade flexible foil or thin vinyl transition hose behind the dryer, and crushed duct behind a pushed-back dryer is the most frequent restriction we find. The dry air here cuts condensation risk, but airborne dust and fine mineral silt bind with lint into a hard-packed coating on the duct wall instead of loose fluff. That is why a shop vac alone does not do much. Roof terminations bake under 110°F sun until plastic louvers crack, and open hoods collect bird nests. Older postwar stock in Mesa, Tempe and Guadalupe has a different problem: short slab-era runs retrofitted through add-on laundry corners and carports, often with fittings nobody planned for. If a run is past cleaning, we handle repair or a full new vent line rather than brushing a duct that is already failing.

Sometimes we get out there, read the airflow, open the line, and the duct is fine. We tell you that and we do not clean it. You pay for the trip and the inspection, and we note when to look at it again. On the jobs that do need work, what moves the number is the run itself: a short first-floor wall vent is a different job than a two-story attic rise to a roof jack, and roof work adds ladder time and a second person. Three or four elbows take longer to brush than a straight shot. A cracked louver, a bird nest in the hood, or a vinyl transition hose that has to be replaced are parts and labor on top of the cleaning. Tell us the floor the laundry is on and roughly where the vent exits, and we can describe what the job looks like before anyone is standing in your laundry room.