Dryer Vent Replacement in Peoria, AZ

Replacing a dryer vent line in Peoria

Two or three cycles to dry one load. Laundry room over 90F during use. Maybe a burning smell, or the dryer quitting on its thermal limit. At that point cleaning often is not the fix. Flex duct that has been crushed behind a pedestal washer/dryer set in a shallow laundry closet does not recover its shape. Foil duct collapsed where it crosses a truss chord stays collapsed. Those runs get replaced, not brushed.

The common replacements here are attic-to-roof-jack verticals of 12 to 25 feet with one or two 90s, lateral soffit runs out to a side wall, short exterior-wall runs in older slab ranches, and garage-wall penetrations where the dryer sits in the garage corner. Rigid metal replaces flex wherever it is concealed. Joints get taped, never screwed, since screw tips catch lint.

Desert dust pulled back through a weak termination during haboobs mixes with lint into a dense mat. That mat is why roof caps stop showing airflow. New terminations get a backdraft damper and a bird guard that still opens, since house sparrows and finches nest in roof jacks and dryer hoods each spring. Bees turn up in wall caps.

Gas dryers add a carbon monoxide backdraft concern when the run blocks. Do not wait on that one.