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A job starts at the dryer, not the hood. The crew pulls the machine out, disconnects the transition hose, and looks at what is actually in the line before anything spins. Then a rotary brush goes in on a flexible rod, fed from the cleanest end toward the exit, with a vacuum drawing at the connection point so lint leaves the house instead of coating the laundry room. We run the brush the full length, not the first six feet. Airflow gets measured at the exterior hood before we start and again when we finish, so there is a number to compare instead of a guess. The transition hose gets replaced if it is crushed, torn, or the old foil kind. The dryer goes back, gets leveled, and gets run to confirm the flap opens. We work behind gas and electric dryers, stacked units, and the compact machines in second-floor closets where the hookup is tight.

We cover the Omaha metro west and north: Douglas, Sarpy, Dodge and Washington counties. Housing splits three ways here and each vents differently. Pre-1960 small-town and streetcar-era houses put laundry in the basement with long runs up to a rim joist or through a foundation wall. The 1950s-70s ranches and split-levels have main-floor or basement laundry and short exterior-wall runs, which are the easy ones. Post-1995 two-story tract homes put the laundry room on the second floor, which forces vertical runs through interior walls and out the roof or a soffit. Those are the long calls, and they are the ones people put off. Cold matters here too: a 20-degree duct running through unconditioned attic or crawl space condenses warm humid dryer exhaust into water, and wet lint cements to the duct wall instead of blowing out. Summer dew points in the 60s-70s slow drying and push cycle counts up. Agricultural dust, gravel-road dust, and cottonwood fluff off the Platte load exterior hoods and pest screens, so sometimes the blockage is outside and the duct itself is fine.

The most common calls are clothes taking two cycles, a dryer that shuts off hot, a hood flap that will not close, and birds or mice in a run that lost its screen. If we open the line and it does not need clearing yet, we say so and tell you roughly when to call back. That happens more than you would think in the short ranch runs. What moves the cost on a dryer vent is the length and shape of the run and how we have to reach it: a straight basement run through a rim joist is quick, a second-floor line with two elbows terminating at a roof cap means ladder work and a longer brush job, and a duct that has been holding water for a few winters takes more passes than dry lint. Damaged or crushed sections, a missing hood, or a run that was never built right are separate work, and we handle that through dryer vent repair or a full dryer vent installation. If you want to know what condition your line is in before deciding anything, start with an inspection.