Dryer vent cleaning
Whole-home duct cleaning
Camera inspection
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 Albany
Dryer vent cleaning in Albany typically runs $140 – $260 for a standard single-family home, with most jobs completed in about an hour. We work in Albany every week, so we know the streets, the housing stock, and the ways these pre-war homes hide lint where you’d never think to look. If your dryer is taking longer than 45 minutes to dry a load, or you can’t remember the last time the vent was cleaned, call us at (833) 620-5944. We’ll schedule a time that works for you, and we’ll show you what’s in the vent before and after we clean it.
Why Everclear Air Duct Cleaning Is Albany’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
People in Albany call us because they’ve either bought an older home and don’t know what’s behind the walls, or they’ve had a cheap vent cleaning done before and couldn’t tell if anything actually happened. We approach Dryer Vent Cleaning differently. We run camera equipment through the vent before we touch anything, so you see exactly what we’re dealing with. Then we clean it with Rotobrush rotary brush systems paired with Nikro HEPA-filtered vacuums, which capture lint and debris at the source instead of blowing it back into the room.
Our team, led by Bruce Lowry, has serviced hundreds of Albany homes from the flats near San Pablo Avenue up to the hillside streets off Marin. We’ve worked in those 1920s Craftsman bungalows off Solano, the stucco cottages along Cornell and Kains, and the mid-century apartment blocks up toward the Berkeley border. The housing here is specific, and so are the dryer vent problems. A technician who’s only worked in newer subdivisions won’t recognize a sagging foil run threaded through a former pantry or a joint that popped loose behind a 1930s built-in. We do, because we see it here every month.
We’re not a franchise and we’re not a coupon outfit. Bruce runs a tight crew that’s equipped for real work. When we’re in Albany, we bring the same Rotobrush and Nikro equipment we use on larger commercial jobs, because these old ducts and vents need it. We also use Abatement Technologies negative air containment when we need to keep debris from drifting through the home during a repair or cleaning. That matters in these small bungalows where the laundry closet is ten feet from the kitchen.
Styles & brands we work with
- Whole-home duct cleaning
- Dryer vent cleaning
- Camera inspection
- Sanitizing & deodorizing
Dryer Vent Repair in Albany
Dryer Vent Repair in Albany usually means replacing the very duct material that should never have been installed in the first place. So many of these pre-war homes got dryers added during a 1980s or early 1990s retrofit, and the contractor used whatever flexible foil or vinyl duct was cheap at the hardware store. That duct sags, traps lint in the low spots, and eventually splits or comes loose at a joint. In Albany’s tightly built homes, a compromised dryer vent isn’t a minor annoyance. It’s a slow-burning fire hazard sitting inside a closet, a crawlspace, or a wall cavity.
A full dryer vent repair here typically runs $180 – $350 depending on access and run length. Replacing a short run through an interior wall with new rigid galvanized duct is on the lower end. Rerouting a vent that was poorly installed through a tight crawlspace with difficult access lands on the higher end, especially if we’re also correcting a code violation like duct run longer than 25 feet or a termination under the house. You’ll know the price before we start and it’s one flat number for the entire job.
Vent Rerouting and Rigid Duct Replacement
When a vent is routed badly, cleaning it only postpones the problem. We reroute vents that have too many elbows, too much sag, or the wrong materials. In Albany, that often means pulling a run out of a closet and re-routing it through a side wall or rim joist. We use rigid galvanized duct, sealed at every joint, so lint has nowhere to accumulate and nothing to catch on.
Vent Cap Replacement and Bird Guard Installation
Albany’s mature tree canopy means birds, squirrels, and roofing debris find their way into vent terminations. We replace damaged or pest-broken vent caps and install bird guards that keep nesting materials out without restricting airflow. A missing or broken cap is also how fog moisture gets into the vent, wetting the lint and turning it into a paste that hardens against the duct walls.
Dryer Vent Cleaning Company in Albany
As a Dryer Vent Cleaning Company that works regularly in Albany, we know what a proper clean looks like in these old houses before we open the toolboxes. The typical Albany dryer vent we clean is short but badly routed. It runs through a closet floor, a pantry wall, or a crawlspace, and it hasn’t been cleaned since the dryer was installed. The run is often 6 to 15 feet with two or three hard 90-degree turns. That’s short enough to hide a serious blockage and long enough to hold years of lint. Neither is something you want.
A standard dryer vent cleaning in Albany runs $140 – $180 for a single-family home with an accessible roof or side-wall termination, and the job usually takes 45 to 70 minutes. Apartments or homes with rooftop terminations that require ladder access often run $180 – $260. Every cleaning includes our camera inspection before and after, so you see the vent clear before you pay. If we find a blockage we can’t safely clear, or the duct is damaged, we’ll tell you and give you a repair price on the spot.
Lint Removal from Closet-Routed Vents
When a dryer vent runs through a closet or an old pantry space, we’re often working around original 1920s built-ins that make access difficult. We clean these runs with our rotary brush and HEPA vacuum capturing lint at both the dryer connection and the exterior termination. In long or hard-to-reach runs, we insert the camera first to find the low points and joints where lint has piled up.
Dryer Vent Inspection with Camera Verification
We don’t ask you to take our word that the vent is clean. Every service includes a before-and-after camera record. You’ll see the lint plaque we removed and the clear duct after we’re done. That verification matters, especially in Albany homes where the vent is inside a wall or under the floor and you’ll never lay eyes on it yourself.
Trusted Brands We Service in Albany
We clean and repair dryer vents on every major dryer brand found in Albany homes: Whirlpool, Maytag, LG, Samsung, GE, Electrolux, and Speed Queen. The vent doesn’t care what dryer you own, but the termination and routing in these older Albany houses often involves parts that we stock on the truck. That means we can replace a vent cap, a short section of duct, or a damaged elbow the same visit instead of scheduling a return. We carry the common replacement parts for both the dryer side connection and the exterior cap, so when we find a problem in a 94706 home, we fix it during the same appointment more often than not.
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AfterCommon Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Albany Homes
- Flexible foil or vinyl duct sagging through crawlspaces. We see this on nearly every 1980s retrofit in Albany. The duct droops between joists, lint fills the low pockets, and the dryer starts overheating. This is a fire risk, not a maintenance item.
- Lint packed behind original built-ins. When a vent was routed through a former pantry or closet, the original cabinetry still surrounds it. A standard cleaning brush can’t reach past the tight clearances, so the lint behind the built-in stays put until we get in with a rotary brush and camera guide.
- Disconnected or crushed joints in short, odd runs. Albany’s add-on duct systems were never engineered. Joints come loose, duct gets crushed during later remodeling, and lint spills into floor cavities. Your dryer works harder and the lint supply feeding a potential fire just grows.
- Fog-season moisture making lint stick to duct walls. Albany’s damp microclimate means lint inside uninsulated crawlspace ducts absorbs moisture and hardens. It doesn’t blow free. It plasters itself to the metal and narrows the airway month by month.
Pricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Albany, CA
Here’s what you should expect to pay for dryer vent work in Albany’s 94706 zip code. A standard dryer vent cleaning for a single-family bungalow runs $140 – $180. A cleaning with apartment access, rooftop termination, or a longer-than-average run runs $180 – $260. Dryer vent repair, including rerouting or replacing unsafe duct, runs $180 – $350 depending on access and how much old duct has to come out. Vent cap replacement with a bird guard installed is typically $75 – $140.
These are the prices we charge for Albany jobs. What changes the number is access: a vent that terminates through a first-floor side wall costs less to service than one that requires a ladder to a roof cap or a crawl through a low-lying foundation. What doesn’t change is that you get one flat price before we start, and the same price when we’re done. Call (833) 620-5944 and we’ll give you a firm quote for your home. No per-vent pricing, no upsell after we arrive.
We Also Serve Cities Near Albany
Everclear Air Duct Cleaning covers Albany and the surrounding East Bay, including Berkeley, Richmond, San Pablo, and the Embarcadero area. If your home is just over the border on the Berkeley side or up toward El Cerrito, we’re already in the neighborhood. Same equipment, same flat pricing, same before-and-after camera proof.
Serving Albany, CA – Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Albany 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 Albany
Usually not, and it’s one of the most common failures we find in Albany’s older homes. Closet-routed vents are often too long, use the wrong material, or have joints that have pulled apart behind the built-ins. We can inspect the run, show you what’s there on camera, and if it’s unsafe, replace it with rigid duct routed to a proper exterior termination. Call (833) 620-5944 to have yours checked.
Once a year is the right interval for most Albany households. The fog belt adds moisture to the already lint-trapping turns in these older homes, and that moisture hardens lint against the duct walls faster than in drier climates. If you have pets, run the dryer more than four loads a week, or the vent is more than 10 feet long, twice a year is safer.
Sagging flexible foil or vinyl duct that was installed during a retrofit decades ago. It traps lint in the low pockets, restricts airflow, and in the worst cases has melted or split from heat. The real fix is replacement with rigid galvanized duct, sealed at every joint. We do that work ourselves, so you’re not coordinating between a vent cleaner and a contractor.
We repair and reroute dryer vent runs as part of our regular service. You don’t need a general contractor. We pull out the bad duct, install code-compliant rigid galvanized runs, seal the joints, and terminate properly to the exterior. If the run is in a difficult crawlspace in one of Albany’s older foundations, we handle the access. It’s all one flat price, agreed before the work starts.
Yes, on every job. Before we clean, we run a camera through the vent so we can see blockages, disconnections, crushed sections, and wet lint. After we clean, we run it again so you can see the result. It’s the only way to verify work inside a wall cavity or crawlspace, and we never ask you to take it on faith.
If your dryer is slow, your laundry smells musty, or you suspect the vent hasn’t been cleaned since the Clinton administration, call us at (833) 620-5944. We’ll give you a straight answer, a clear price, and a vent you can see is clean. Serving all of Albany, 94706.
Written by Bruce Lowry, Owner at Everclear Air Duct Cleaning, serving Albany since 2017.