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A job starts with the dryer pulled out and the duct disconnected at the back. The crew checks airflow at the exterior hood first, so there's a before number to compare against. Then a rotary brush goes in on a flexible line, driven by a drill, usually fed from the hood end so debris moves toward the vacuum rather than into the laundry room. The vacuum stays sealed at the duct opening the whole time. Elbows and transitions get worked more than once, because that's where the buildup sits. The hood gets opened and cleared by hand, including the damper flaps, which seize shut more often than people expect. We check airflow at the hood again before reconnecting, and we clean the dryer's internal lint path and the short transition hose while the unit is still pulled out. We work behind gas and electric units, stacked laundry centers, and the heat-pump dryers showing up in newer builds, which run cooler and longer and leave a different kind of residue.

Gulf Coast humidity is the controlling factor here. Intake air at 75-80% RH means dryer cycles run long year-round, and long cycles push more lint and more moisture into the duct. Warm damp lint packs into a paste rather than staying loose, especially at elbows and at the final 3 ft before the hood. That changes what the work involves. A dry, loose vent brushes out quickly. A vent with packed lint needs repeated passes and sometimes a scraper on the last section before the hood. Houston's slab-on-grade construction forced laundry either to an exterior wall, which gives a short side-wall run typical of pre-1980 ranch homes, or into interior utility closets and second-floor hallways, which means a long attic run ending in a roof jack. Attic-run duct in Houston sweats on winter nights and bakes in summer. Flexible foil and vinyl duct installed in the 70s-90s sags between joists and traps water and lint at the low points. Townhome and condo stacks vent through long vertical chases. Rebuild-heavy inner-loop cities put laundry on the second or third floor, doubling typical duct length.

The most common calls we take: clothes taking two cycles, a hot laundry room, a burning smell, a damper that never opens, and birds or wasps in a roof jack. Sometimes the answer is that the vent doesn't need clearing yet. A short side-wall run in a one-person household can go a long time, and we'll tell you that and leave rather than brush a clean duct. What moves the number on this work is run length and where the duct goes. A ten-foot side-wall run with rigid pipe is straightforward. A forty-foot attic run with four elbows and a roof jack means ladder time, roof access, and more passes with the brush. Sagging foil duct can't be cleaned back to working condition, so that becomes a repair or a full reroute in rigid metal. If you're not sure which situation you have, a vent inspection answers it before anyone commits to the bigger job.