Dryer vent cleaning
Whole-home duct cleaning
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Sanitizing & deodorizingWhole-system duct and dryer vent check with before-and-after photos - you see exactly what came out of your vents
That "$99 whole-house special" is a bait ad - the real number appears once they are in your hallway, or the "clean" is a shop-vac at the register. We photograph the inside of your ducts before and after instead.
Fast, Reliable Dryer Vent Cleaning Across Haltom City
Dryer vent cleaning in Haltom City runs $129 – $259 for a standard single-story ranch home, and $189 – $349 when the run exits through a crawlspace, attic, or exceeds 15 feet. Most Haltom City jobs we complete same-week, with a written price agreed before the van rolls. If you live in one of the older neighborhoods off Denton Highway or along Carson Street, you already know the houses here ask more of a dryer vent than most. Decades of North Texas clay, pier-and-beam settling, and spring storm water under east-side crawlspaces turn a routine cleaning into something closer to a diagnostic job. That’s the work we do. Call (682) 255-2572 and we’ll tell you exactly what it costs before we touch anything.
Why Hollis Air Duct Fort Worth Is Haltom City’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
Haltom City homeowners don’t need a company that treats this house like a house in Frisco. The homes here are different. Built mostly between the 1950s and early 1980s, many sit on expansive clay that has moved, shifted, and settled for sixty years. We know that a dryer vent run through a crawlspace on the east side of town behaves differently than one through an attic near Haltom Road. We inspect for what those conditions actually cause: crushed rigid pipe, disconnected joints, silt pulled in from spring flooding, and lint packed behind kinked flex transitions.
Our technicians show up uniformed and background-checked. The price is written down before work starts, and it does not move at the door. Every dryer vent cleaning or repair in Haltom City carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise, in writing. If it fails within a year, we come back at no charge. That’s not a slogan. That’s The Garrison Standard, and it applies to every independently owned Hollis location. Roy Castellanos runs discipline on our crews, and the work reflects it.
Styles & brands we work with
Common Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Haltom City Homes
- Crawlspace silt intrusion on the east side. Haltom City’s pier-and-beam homes with flooded crawlspaces pull clay-heavy silt into the exterior vent intake when the dryer runs. That silt cements to lint and turns into a blockage no standard brush clears on the first pass.
- Foundation-shifted vent runs. Expansive clay soil under 1950s – 1970s slabs and piers moves every wet-dry cycle. We regularly find rigid vent pipe that has separated at a joint or crushed under a settled pier, creating a lint trap that shortens dryer life and raises the fire risk in the wall cavity.
- Original fiberboard return contamination. Homes with original fiberboard ductwork in tight attics shed particles into the laundry area when the air handler cycles. You’ll see it as fine dust on freshly dried clothes within a day of folding them.
- Vent runs over 20 feet with multiple elbows. Ranches with the laundry room on an interior wall and a vent exit on the far side of the house create long, multi-bend runs. Haltom City’s older floorplans make this common, and those runs trap lint faster than the manufacturer’s rated maximum for most dryers.
Dryer Vent Installation in Haltom City
Dryer Vent Installation in Haltom City means replacing an existing run with rigid 4-inch metal pipe, properly supported, sloped, and sealed at every joint. We install it when the current vent is crushed, corroded, made of flammable foil or vinyl, or when the run length exceeds what the dryer can physically push against. In Haltom City specifically, we see homes where the original 1960s installer used flexible white hose that is now brittle and split behind the wall, or pipe that runs through a crawlspace that floods every March.
What a proper install costs
A standard replacement with rigid pipe in a single-story Haltom City ranch runs $249 – $449. If we’re replacing a full run through a crawlspace, adding a backdraft damper, or rerouting a vent that exits too close to a window or into a carport, plan on $379 – $649. We write the exact number down before we order parts.
When we recommend rerouting
If the existing vent exits into a crawlspace, under a deck, or terminates less than three feet from an operable window, code says it needs to move. Rerouting an east-side Haltom City vent exit through a rim joist or up through the attic costs $450 – $750 for a typical ranch, and it is the kind of job generic cleaners won’t touch because it requires actual sheet metal work and sealing. We do, because a vent that terminates properly is a vent that stops costing you money.
Dryer Vent Repair in Haltom City
Dryer Vent Repair in Haltom City is the most common job we do, and it is rarely what the homeowner expected when they called us. They thought they needed a cleaning. What they actually had was a crushed section of rigid pipe under a settled pier on Bonham Street, or a disconnected joint behind the wall on a street off Broadway Avenue. The dryer ran, but it vented into the crawlspace or wall cavity. Repair means finding the failure, cutting out the bad section, and replacing it with new rigid pipe, sealed with foil tape at every seam.
Foundation damage and vent kinks
Haltom City’s expansive clay is the root cause behind most of the repairs we quote. When the soil swells after a wet spring, it lifts one corner of the slab or one end of a pier. The vent, if it was run tight through the structure, kinks or separates. We replace the affected section and add a short flexible connector where movement is likely, so the next soil cycle does not repeat the damage. Typical repair cost in Haltom City: $189 – $379 depending on length and access.
Silt and flood-damaged runs
On the east side around areas like the neighborhoods north of W. Belknap Street and south of the old railroad line, crawlspaces flood when spring storms sit over the city. That water carries clay-heavy silt into any vent intake or low joint, and it dries into a cement-like layer. A cleaning brush skips over it. We remove and replace that section of pipe, then add a backdraft damper so flood water and outside air stop getting pulled in every time the dryer runs. Expect $250 – $450 for that repair.
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AfterTrusted Brands We Service in Haltom City
We work on and service every common dryer brand, and we stock the transition duct connectors, backdraft dampers, wall caps, and bird guards most Haltom City homes need. For home air quality equipment, we use professional-grade machines from Rotobrush for agitation and negative pressure cleaning, plus filtration components from Aprilaire and Guardsman where the job calls for them. If you are adding a whole-home filter or upgrading a vent cap on an exterior wall, we keep what we need on the truck and do not make you wait on a parts order from a supplier that does not know what a 1960s Haltom City pier-and-beam requires.
Pricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Haltom City, TX
A standard dryer vent cleaning in Haltom City runs $129 – $259. That covers one dryer, any vent run up to 15 feet, roof or wall cap removal, full interior brushing with our Rotobrush system, negative pressure collection, and a post-clean airflow check. If your Haltom City home has a longer run, a crawlspace exit, or requires obstruction removal, plan on $189 – $349. If the cleaning reveals a crushed or disconnected section, we stop, show you photos, and give you a written repair price before we do anything else. There is no per-vent upcharge and no mystery fee. Call us at (682) 255-2572 and we will give you an exact number for your home, free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Haltom City
Our service area covers the whole mid-cities corridor. Beyond Haltom City, we route crews to Fort Worth, Bedford, Colleyville, and Euless every week. If you are in one of those cities and have the same kind of older home with crawlspace or clay-related vent problems, the pricing and the Promise apply the same way.
Serving Haltom City, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Haltom City area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Dryer Vent Cleaning in Haltom City
Older Haltom City homes clog faster because the vent runs were often installed with too many elbows, flexible foil transitions, or undersized 3-inch pipe, and because the pier-and-beam construction exposes parts of the run to crawlspace conditions that pull in silt during spring flooding. Add sixty years of foundation movement from expansive clay, and you get kinked or separated joints that trap lint where newer homes’ straight rigid runs simply do not. Most Haltom City ranches we clean need service twice as often as a typical 2005-built home in Colleyville. If yours has not been cleaned in over a year, call (682) 255-2572 and we will get eyes on it.
Yes. This is the most common repair we do in Haltom City. A crushed vent is cut out and replaced with new rigid 4-inch metal pipe, sealed at every joint, and where the home has a history of movement we add a short flexible connector at the transition point so the next soil swell does not re-crush it. Typical cost in Haltom City is $189 – $379 depending on access and the length of the damaged section. Call us at (682) 255-2572 and we will give you a written quote before any work starts.
Do not keep running the dryer as if the blockage will clear itself. A flooded crawlspace pulls clay silt into the vent opening every time the dryer cycles, and once that silt dries it hardens into a plug. We recommend a repair that replaces any water-damaged pipe section and adds a backdraft damper at the exterior termination so flood water and outside air cannot get pulled backward into the line. That repair in a Haltom City pier-and-beam home runs $250 – $450. It is a permanent fix, and it is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise.
We do. Original 1960s rigid metal vent pipe in Haltom City ranches is often still sound, but the joints and connectors around it are not. We inspect the entire run with a camera before and after, replace any separated or corroded sections, and seal every connection with code-rated foil tape, not duct tape. Many of these homes also have the original roof or wall cap rusted through, which we replace for $45 – $90 depending on the style. We give you the total price before any disassembly begins.
Most Haltom City homes with pier-and-beam foundations or crawlspace vent exits should have their dryer vent cleaned every 10 to 12 months. If your home sits on expansive clay and you have already seen foundation cracks or sticking doors, do it every 9 months. It is not because you do more laundry than a Keller homeowner. It is because the ground under your house moves, the vent moves with it, and lint collects faster at every kink and joint. For family-sized households with three or more people and a vent exit under the house, an annual cleaning is the minimum. Call (682) 255-2572 and we will tell you what your specific run needs.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Fort Worth, serving Haltom City and the surrounding mid-cities area.