Commercial dryer vent cleaning in New York City
Dryers that run all day fill their exhaust with lint far faster than a household machine does. We clean every dryer's connection and the shared duct they feed, and give you photos of the line before and after.
Commercial dryer vent cleaning, explained
Commercial dryer vent cleaning covers the dryers a business depends on: the rows of machines in a laundromat, the laundry in a hotel basement, the towel dryers at a gym, salon or spa, and the coin or card machines in an apartment building's laundry room.
The difference from a home is volume. A commercial dryer may run load after load from opening to closing, and towels and linens shed heavily. Lint that builds slowly in a house builds quickly in a busy laundry.
The layout is different too. Several dryers often share one exhaust: each machine has a short connector into a common duct that runs across the ceiling or up a shaft to the roof or an outside wall. Lint collects where the connectors join, at every turn and at the outlet. When the shared duct narrows, every machine on it slows down at once.
In New York that duct is often long. A ground-floor laundromat or a basement laundry room may exhaust up through the building to the roof, and the outlet sits somewhere staff never go.
What is included
- Every dryer on the line checked and its connector cleaned
- Lint vacuumed from behind and beneath the machines
- The shared exhaust duct brushed along its full length
- The roof or wall outlet and its damper cleared
- Each dryer run afterward to confirm air is moving
- Photos of the duct and outlet for your files
Signs you need it
- Loads that need extra time or a second run
- Dryers that overheat and shut down mid-cycle
- A laundry room that is hot, humid or smells scorched
- Lint drifting onto walls, ceilings or the area around the outlet
- Several machines on one line slowing down together
How the job goes
Walk the system
We note how many dryers there are and how each connects, then follow the shared duct to where it leaves the building.
Plan around hours
Dryers on a duct that is being cleaned have to be off. Tell us your hours when you call, and when the machines are least used.
Clean the connectors
Machine by machine, the connector comes off and is cleaned, and the lint behind and under the dryer is vacuumed up.
Brush the shared duct
A rotary brush on flexible rods is run through the common duct section by section, with a vacuum collecting the lint as it comes loose.
Clear the far end
The outlet on the roof or wall is cleared, and its damper is checked to see that it opens when the dryers run and closes when they stop.
Run and report
Each dryer is reconnected and run, and you get photos and a plain account of anything that needs repair.
From our own jobs
Our photos, not stock.
Why it matters
A commercial dryer is a heat source that runs most of the day beside a duct lined with fuel. Lint that has dried out in a warm exhaust catches easily, and a shared duct gives a fire a path through the building. Many commercial dryers burn gas and send their combustion gases out through the same exhaust, so a restricted line is a ventilation problem as well as a fire risk.
It is also a cost you pay every day. When airflow drops, each load takes longer, fewer loads get through each machine, and energy use climbs. Cleaning on a schedule that matches your volume keeps the line from getting to that point.
Commercial dryer vent cleaning: common questions
How often should a commercial dryer exhaust be cleaned?
It depends on how many loads the machines run, so there is no single answer. A busy laundromat needs it far more often than a salon drying towels. After the first cleaning, the amount of lint that came out tells you a lot about the right interval.
Can you work without shutting the whole laundry down?
The dryers on the duct being cleaned have to stay off while we work on it. Where machines are on separate lines, one bank can keep running while another is cleaned.
Our staff empty the lint screens every day. Is that not enough?
It is necessary, and it is a different job. The screen catches the lint that stays in the machine. Finer lint passes through it into the connector and the shared duct, where nobody can reach it during a shift.
What do you need to know to give a quote?
The kind of business, how many dryers you have, whether they are gas or electric, and where the exhaust leaves the building, if you know. Call or text (917) 983-1283 with those details. If you manage a building and want in-unit dryers done along with the laundry room, see annual cleaning for property managers.
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Tell us what is going on. We will tell you what it needs.
Call or text with your ZIP code and a line about the problem. For dryer vents, text DRYER and your ZIP.