The lint screen you empty every load catches maybe half of it. The rest is packing into a hidden duct in your wall right now — and lint is one of the most flammable materials in your home. Clearing it is one of the highest-safety-return, lowest-effort things you can do.
Understanding the mechanism makes the prevention obvious — it’s a simple, vicious cycle, and you break it at step one by keeping the duct clear.
The fine lint that slips past your screen settles and compacts inside the exhaust duct, month after month.
The narrowing duct chokes the exhaust, so drying slows and clothes come out damp or take two cycles.
With nowhere to go, heat backs up in the duct — the dryer and clothes run unusually hot.
Flammable lint plus trapped heat is the recipe. A clogged vent quietly feeds its own fire — cleaning removes the fuel.
A dryer with a clogged vent almost always warns you first. Notice any of these? Clean the vent now — they also mean higher energy bills and a shorter dryer life, even before any fire risk.
We open access points and clear the entire duct from the dryer connection to the exterior hood — reaching the deep, compacted lint the lint screen never catches.
We make sure the outside vent flap opens and seals freely, and remove any lint, debris or nesting material blocking it.
With the run clear, your dryer breathes again — cutting fire risk, lowering energy use and extending the machine’s life all at once.
Flimsy plastic flex duct, over-long runs or too many bends raise the risk regardless of cleaning. If we spot them, we’ll tell you what’s worth fixing.
One of the cheapest safety upgrades in your home — $150 stand-alone, or just $60 added to a furnace or duct cleaning.
No per-vent guesswork and no upsells — just the flat rate for your situation. Bundle it with a furnace or duct cleaning and it drops to $60.
Booked with a furnace or duct cleaning on the same visit.
Dryer vent cleaning on its own, side-of-house exhaust.
Dryer vent cleaning is $60 when added to a furnace or duct cleaning, or $150 as a stand-alone visit (side-of-house exhaust). Clearing a bird’s nest on a stand-alone visit is $225. Roof-exhausting vents are quoted separately. All prices subject to GST.
You’ll see a ‘15,000 Canadian dryer fires’ figure circulating online — it traces back to a single loosely-sourced claim, so we don’t repeat it. What’s solid: U.S. NFPA data showing about 16,000 dryer and washer fires a year, dryers roughly 92% of them, and steady annual counts from Canadian fire departments. The risk is real and consistent whichever number you use — and a clean lint screen every load plus one professional cleaning a year eliminates the large majority of it.
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