Vent Cleaning System

When we purchased our first home in Indiana we found a great deal of surprises in store for us when we got involved with the heating and air conditioning system. Luckily our realtor suggested we have the seller add a home warranty into the sales contract as the house was built in 1979 and still had the original roof and appliances.

That provision ended up saving us several thousand dollars as our furnace for the upstairs quit working. We had two furnaces and two heat pumps. One of the heat pumps was only ten years old while the other was original equipment. After several attempts to fix the system a new heat pump had to be installed along with a new furnace.

When we first looked at the house we noticed several round plates in the floor and ceiling along with a couple of normal cold air return grates. What we thought was a central vacuum system actually was what was called a Space-Pak heating system that used flexible round ductwork to all of the various rooms.

Standard vent cleaning equipment could not be used as the duct work was not rigid and if you removed the vent covers the flexible ducting fell below the sub floor and was very difficult to get reset and reattached to the round vent cover. We found out the hard way that it cost nearly twenty dollars per vent cover and the replacement Space Pak furnace was over three thousand dollars and the regular ductwork to hook the new system up to the second main furnace had to be custom fit by the contractor.

Thank you realtor for insisting on getting a home warranty from the seller. The total repair cost me only one hundred dollars for the entire repair. If you purchase a new home you may want to insist on a thorough duct cleaning job from a company with a good vent cleaning system. If you look at most of the national cleaning companies like Chem-Dry, Service Master, Stanley Steemer along with the vast majority of local or regional cleaning companies all have air duct and dryer vent cleaning systems available for all your residential needs.

Here are some signs that your dryer vent needs cleaned out. When your dryer is running it seems a great deal warmer in the laundry room than normal. When you go outside you don’t see or feel the flow of air from the exterior dryer vent cover.

Drying the same size loads takes longer and longer each time. All of these symptoms could mean that your drier vent is either partially or totally clogged with lint. The lint trap in your dryer also should be removed and lint below the trap should be vacuumed out as well.

If this is the only issue you need to address in your home, you may want to look at buying a dryer vent cleaning system for your own use. You can then help pout family, friends and neighbors with their dryer lint problems. There is a vent cleaning system called LintEater available for use with a standard drill if your dryer vent is less than twelve feet in length. If the vent is longer than that you can purchase a twelve foot extension that should handle any residential drier vent installed in the last thirty years.

The LintEater system costs less than forty dollars to purchase and comes with a flexible shaft with eight thirty six inch rods, a four inch auger brush (self-feeding), a blockage removal tool, brush for the lint trap, a vacuum and dryer adapter, and an instructional DVD in how to use the LintEater in all situations.The vacuum adapter is used to suck the loosened lint with your shop vacuum and the dryer vent cleaner adapter is to use the air from the dryer to remove the loosened lint in the event you do not own a shop vacuum.

A commercially available vent cleaning system is available from Ro-Vac for just under seven hundred dollars. This is the perfect system for those cleaning companies to round out their service programs. If you are already providing heating and air conditioning duct cleaning services then dryer vent cleaning services are a natural extension to your product list.

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