Question 1

My dryer is taking two cycles to dry a normal load. Is that the vent or the machine?

Accepted Answer

In Jacksonville it's usually the vent, and the reason is humidity. Our dew points stay high most of the year, so the air being pulled through the duct is already damp. Lint that would stay dry and loose in a drier climate packs into a felted layer against the duct wall here, and that layer keeps building until airflow drops. If the drum is heating fine but clothes come out warm and still damp, that's a restriction downstream, not a bad element. A quick check: go outside while the dryer runs and put your hand at the exterior hood. Weak or barely-warm air means the duct, not the appliance.

Question 2

We're in Riverside and the laundry got added onto the back porch. Does that change anything?

Accepted Answer

Quite a bit. The 1910s–1940s frame homes in Riverside, Avondale, Springfield and Murray Hill almost never had a laundry room in the original plan, so the washer and dryer ended up on an enclosed rear porch or in a utility room carved out of a basement. The ducting that came with those conversions is often undersized for a modern dryer, and we still find the old white vinyl transition hose behind the machine, which sags, traps lint at every low point and is no longer allowed by code. Sometimes the run also takes a couple of extra elbows to get around framing that was never meant to have a duct through it. We clean what's there and tell you plainly if the duct itself is the limiting factor rather than the lint in it.

Question 3

What does it cost to clean a dryer vent in Jacksonville?

Accepted Answer

What moves the number here is which side of town you're on. A concrete block ranch in Arlington, Southside or the Westside typically has the dryer in a small utility room or kitchen alcove venting straight through the block wall within a few feet, and that's the simplest job we do. A two-story in Bartram Park, the far Southside or the Northside with second-floor laundry and a long run up to a roof cap costs more, because it takes roof access and more line to reach the whole duct. The older Riverside and Springfield conversions land in between and occasionally need a transition hose replaced. We'd rather look at your setup and tell you where you fall than guess over the phone.

Question 4

How soon can someone come out, and do you do same-day?

Accepted Answer

Same-day happens fairly often, especially if you're in one of the closer-in areas and the run is short. Duval County is spread out, though, and a call from the Northside when the crew is already down in Bartram Park may end up next-day instead. If your dryer is shutting itself off mid-cycle or the cabinet is getting hot to the touch, say so when you call. That's a safety issue and we move it up. Otherwise most homeowners here get scheduled within a couple of days.

Question 5

Why does my exterior vent hood keep getting blocked every spring?

Accepted Answer

The live oak and pine canopy over the older neighborhoods is the culprit. Every spring that canopy drops pollen and fine organic debris, and it collects on and inside exterior vent hoods, especially wall-mounted hoods with louvered flaps that don't seal tight. Mix that with the damp lint already inside the duct and you get a plug right at the termination, which is the worst place for it because it chokes the whole run. On roof-terminated runs in the newer two-story homes it's less pollen and more that the cap sits where you'll never see it. We clear the termination as part of the job and check that the flap still swings freely, since a stuck flap will undo a good cleaning within a season.

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