Dryer Vent Cleaning in Chamblee, GA

Dryer Vent Cleaning for Chamblee Homeowners

Chamblee's residential core — Huntley Hills, Keswick Village, Sexton Woods — is largely 1950s and 1960s ranch, and the chimneys are honest, simple, single-flue masonry. There is nothing exotic to them, which is precisely why they get forgotten. The typical Chamblee call is a house that has been in one family for decades with a fireplace used steadily and swept once, twenty years ago, or a newer owner who has inherited that history. Sixty-year-old crowns are also right at the age where the original concrete has cracked through and started letting water into the stack.

1950s-1960s single-flue ranch masonry; original crowns now at the age where they crack through and admit water.

Dryer lint ignites more readily than paper, and a clothes dryer pushes it into a duct that almost nobody inspects. Thousands of house fires a year start there. The Atlanta housing stock makes it worse in a specific way: a great many homes here put the laundry upstairs or in an interior closet, which means a long duct run with several bends before it reaches an outside wall. Every bend collects lint, and a long restricted run means the dryer works harder, runs longer and gets hotter — which is both a fire risk and the reason your energy bill is higher and your clothes still damp after a full cycle.