Dryer vent cleaning
in Vineyard, UT. Ten minutes from us. Vineyard is Utah County's newest city. Most homes are under fifteen years old and most have never had the vent cleaned.

Vineyard sits on what used to be Geneva Steel land. The whole city got built in the last fifteen years, mostly between the late 2010s and now. Townhomes, small-lot single-family, custom builds along the lake. All of it new construction. The builder mix is the same handful of regional companies that put up Saratoga, Lehi, and Eagle Mountain, so the vent layouts are familiar to us.

New homes don't mean clean vents. They just mean the homeowner hasn't gotten around to thinking about it yet.

Standard Vineyard call: a six-to-ten-year-old home, homeowner has never had the vent cleaned, the dryer is starting to take a little longer. The anemometer at the hood reads eight or nine hundred FPM. Below where it should be but not catastrophic yet. We clean, retest, and the customer watches the number climb past fifteen hundred.

Builder hose behind the dryer is usually still serviceable on homes under ten years old. Exterior plastic vent covers are usually fine until about year ten, then sun and lake wind start cracking the flap. The lake exposure is real. Covers in Vineyard wear out noticeably faster than identical covers in sheltered neighborhoods.