Dryer Vent Cleaning in Marietta, GA

Dryer Vent Cleaning for Marietta Homeowners

Marietta covers more chimney history than anywhere else we serve. Around the Square and Whitlock Avenue there are genuinely antebellum and Victorian homes with hand-laid brick flues and lime mortar that predates Portland cement, and they need to be treated accordingly — a hard modern mortar mix on that brick will destroy it. Push east into the 1980s and 1990s East Cobb subdivisions and the picture changes completely: prefabricated fireplaces, framed chases, metal chase covers. The two jobs share a name and almost nothing else, and the mistake is applying one approach to the other.

Antebellum and Victorian lime-mortar brickwork near the Square; 1980s-1990s prefabricated systems in framed chases through East Cobb.

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.