Kitchen vent installation is another service Dryer vent cleaner offers. Many customers came to us after not being able to find a company that would install their kitchen hood exhaust vent. The picture above was in a home that for 9 years they were running the fan into the cupboard. The reason they could not find someone to install the kitchen vent could have had something to do with the fact it was 16 feet up on the side of the house due to a walkout basement!
Earlier this year we had a call to a home where the dryer was taking 4 cycles to dry each load! The fact it was taking this long would have meant the electricity costs were through the roof! The dryer vent was missing all the Louvre’s so it was a nice place to store their winter supply of food and it kept warm whilst the dryer was running.
A burning smell from the dryer can be several things, most often it is lint build up inside the clothes dryer, but we’ll detail them below. Many people think that because the lint trap is being cleaned out every time the dryer is safe, this is so far from the truth though, there is a lot going on inside your dryer and dryer vent some of which shocks most homeowners when we show them!
Dryer fires happen, there are over 15,000 each year in North America. In Ontario we do not hear them mentioned very often but ask most people and they know someone who has had a dryer fire!
Following 2 recent dryer fires in Hamilton, Ontario we put together this video that shows how and why dryer fires happen.