Keeping your Dryer Vent cleaned is extremely important for safety reasons.
The Hidden Dangers of Neglected Dryer Vents
No matter what people say, most homes have neglected dryer vents. Dryer vents are vital components of your home’s laundry system, responsible for removing heat and moisture from your dryer to the outside. While they work silently in the background, their maintenance often gets overlooked. Neglecting these essential systems can cause numerous risks, including fire […]
Top 5 Reasons to Get Your Dryer Vent Professionally Cleaned Every Year
Your dryer vent is something you might not think about often, but it’s essential to your home’s safety and efficiency. Over time, lint and other debris can build up in the venting system, creating hidden dangers that can be easily avoided with regular professional cleaning. In this post, we’ll discuss the top reasons why you […]
Our Dryer Vent Cleaning Pricing Model
In the past, we have been apprehensive to detail our pricing through our website. As a business practice, this gives our competitors an opportunity to undercut our pricing. Divulging pricing may also discourage customer phone calls, which allow us the opportunity to explain our service and what sets us apart from our competitors. As our […]
Re-Piping Your Dryer Vent
Over the past year, we have responded to numerous jobs in which the dryer vent needed to be “re-piped”. Often times, the homeowner is unaware there is a problem, thus when we suggest that the vent be replaced we are usually met with uncertainty. Below I will explain what we look for when making the […]
Air Compressor Tools vs. Brushing Tools: A Guide to Dryer Vent Cleaning
Dryer Vent Cleaners of Connecticut has been using compressed air brushing tools for dryer vent cleaning since we began business. Competitors in the industry have insinuated that these tools are inferior to the recommended brushing tools that they use. We’d like to tell you a bit about the different equipment our industry uses, and why […]
Bathroom Vents
I recently learned a hard lesson about bathroom vents. Despite being in the venting industry, I had never taken the time to look at my own bathrooms to see how they were vented. As it turns out my home was built in the 1980s. The fans in my upstairs bathrooms (it’s a colonial with an […]
How Often Should I Clean My Dryer Vent?
The biggest question I’m asked when in the field is always “How often should I have my dryer vent cleaned?” Although this is a simple question there are several factors to consider. In the following post I will do my best to explain the rationale behind the cleaning maintenance recommendations. When asked for a recommended […]
Signs your Dryer Vent is Not Connected
Whenever I get a call for urgent work it is usually to deal with a clogged dryer vent. Clogs are a big problem in this business, but disconnected dryer vents have become an increasing issue I wanted to post about as well. Over the past 2 weeks I have traveled to Bolton, Glastonbury, and Rocky […]
PVC Dryer Vents
Over the past month I have responded to several problematic dryer vents in homes where the venting material used was PVC piping. In the following post I hope to explain why this material is sometimes used, why it isn’t recommended, and what to do about it. PVC pipe is sometimes used for dryer vent construction […]
Signs of a Clogged Dryer Vent
Recently I received a call from a homeowner in Glastonbury Connecticut. Their dryer wasn’t drying and, after a call to a repairman, they determined that the vent was clogged. Throughout this article I want to relay the signs you, the homeowner, can detect so that you can save yourself some money and call a vent […]
Roof Top Dryer Vents
We wanted to share our thoughts on a rare, but very problematic, dryer vent situation. The dryer vent that exits the home through the roof is, by far, the most over looked of all the dryer vents. This vent is difficult to access, and therefore never addressed. For these vents the “out of sight out […]