After each load, it is recommended to clean out the lint. This is the first step in ensuring your premise is safe. However, this simple maintenance tip isn’t enough to remove all the debris from the dryer. Some of the dirt is transferred from your clothes through the screen and into the vent. Here, it gradually gathers until a time that it makes airflow difficult, making your system to overheat frequently. Eventually, this might lead to more significant problems; fire.

Before this happens, contact Chicago S dryer vent cleaning services, and we will come to save your business and home from fire imminence. We guarantee the safety of your property and the safety of your family by thoroughly cleaning your vents.

Because you are only cleaning about 75% of the lint in the vent system, sooner you will see the telltale signs that should let you know it is time.

• After cleaning clothes, they take too long to dry. This shows that there is no sufficient circulation of air and that the system is as efficient as it was. When this happens, do not hesitate.
• Whenever you operate the dryer, the machine overheats and causes harm to your clothes.
• The exhaust duct of your dryer vent produces no sound to show the debris is let out or that the lint flap loosely into the housing.
• During cold weather or winter, no visible steam exits the exhaust duct of the dryer vent.
• Your clothes feel hot to the touch when taken out of the dryer. Similarly, if the clothing washed is soiled with flammable materials when you remove them, it is time to give us a call.
• If your dryer is located at a central location where it takes a long time or distance to the outside dryer, it is essential to consider cleaning if you haven’t in a while.

Avoid Fire Hazards – Extreme accumulation of lint in your dryer vent system or the exhaust duct causes fire outbreaks. The lint blocks air flow, causes the system to overheat, and because the lint is highly combustible, it quickly catches fire. Dryer vent lines run through floors and walls of a home or a business building. As a result, when fires occur, the spread is quick throughout the building. The high-temperature limit switches equipped with dryers sometimes fail. As a precaution, only a regular cleaning is the viable solution.

Improve the Airflow – although dryers have a lint trap, a substantial amount of the dirt escapes through it into the dryer itself and mostly the vent duct. In a year or less, this lint may rise to levels that may completely block the circulation of air in the machine and its lines. What further worsens the situation is the warm moist air discharged. It makes the lint stick together and plug endlessly in the duct.

Reduce Operation Costs – Partially or fully clogged dryer vents attracts higher or increased operational costs as well as longer dry times for the clothes. Similarly, it causes premature failure of parts of the machine or the dryer itself. Too much heat also makes the clothes quickly succumb to wear and tear, which shortens their life.

Save Energy – Efficient running of the dryer duct system dries the clothes faster, this way, you save energy.

Another reason why you should clean your dryer vent is that you can quickly reduce health risks by getting rid of the debris and dust from the air.

If you seek a company that will clean your dryer vent system efficiently and at unbeatable prices in Chicago, contact us today. Our work is swift, but up to par with the industry standards. With our team, you can say so long to debris or lint and enhance the performance of your machine as well as the airflow. We use specialized tools and equipment to clean the dryer vent, the lint screen, and trap and all the available booster fans.

Our services are not just for multifamily or single family homes in Chicago, but they extend to commercial dryer vent cleaning for hotels, hospitals, salons and spas, and medical offices among others.

We are clean and thorough, and on top of that, the experience and efficiency of our team will complete the jobs on-budget. Moreover, with our honesty and expertise in working with a wide variety of duct systems, you are assured of quality and safe work.

During the process, we will remove the lint screen and the dryer vent. We have multiple choices of dislodging the debris from your ducts, and they include air whips, vacuum extraction, soft or hard bristle brushes, you won’t have to worry about your machine anytime soon.

We may use the hard bristle brushes to clean your ducts if the make is metallic. After that, we will thoroughly clean the screen area and the dryer vent before doing the final inspection for cleanliness. If there are any traces of dirt remaining, we will repeat the process until nothing of it is left. Once everything is in order, we will reattach everything to the way it was. The dryer vent to the dryer, the outside vent and finally your lint screen.

Precautions to Take to Prevent Dryer Fires

The following are recommendations and steps to take to prevent fire outbreaks.

• Make sure the lint screen or filter is clean after drying each load of clothes. If the clothes are still damp after a standard dryer cycle, or that it requires much more time than is needed, it may be reason enough to clean the dryer vent.
• Clean the system periodically, most importantly the hose connected to the dryer.
• If your dryer ducts are flexible, you should consider replacing them with metal duct work.
• Do not overload the dryer.
• Ensure that the exhaust duct or the dryer vent flap is not blocked or obstructed.
• The screen should be installed on the outside dryer to make sure that vermin don’t nest in them.