Whole-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.
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AfterFast, Reliable Dryer Vent Cleaning Across Aledo
Most Aledo dryer vent cleanings run $160 – $260 for a standard single-dryer system, and the job typically takes 60 – 90 minutes once we’re on site. That price is the whole price: the inspection, the full-run cleaning, the exterior hood check, and the before-and-after photos. No per-vent upcharges. No bait-and-switch once the van is parked. Call (737) 727-2314 for a written quote before anyone touches your dryer.
We know Aledo because we work Aledo every week. The acreage lots off FM 1187, the newer subdivisions around Old Weatherford Road, the older ranch-style homes near the I-20 corridor: each one has a different lint pathway, and that pathway is what actually decides how your dryer breathes. If your loads are taking two cycles or the dryer cabinet runs hot to the touch, the vent is the likely culprit. Here’s how we fix it without guesswork, upselling, or a price that shifts at the door.
Why Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning Is Aledo’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
Aledo homeowners call us for one reason that outranks all the rest: we show you the work. Not a generic “all done” text. Actual before-and-after photographs of your own ducting, pulled with the camera we run through every vent. That’s part of The Relay Standard, the booking experience every Cardinal location operates under. Live trackable arrival. Written price before work starts. Digital invoice you can pay from your phone. No four-hour windows. No voicemail loops. A live person answers 24/7 at (737) 727-2314.
The 365-Day Done Right Promise backs every job. If the vent isn’t actually clear, if the airflow numbers don’t improve, if the exterior hood doesn’t seal, we come back and correct it at no charge within a full year. That’s not a limited-time promotion. That’s the standing offer on every dryer vent job we do in Aledo. Omar Haddad, who leads the team, enforces that promise personally.
Our technicians arrive in uniform, background-checked, and you’ll know their name before they walk up your driveway. They run Rotobrush agitation tools and Nikro HEPA extraction systems, not a shop vac duct-taped to a hose. For Aledo homes, that matters. Lint packed into a 25-foot horizontal run under a pier-and-beam house doesn’t come loose with a knockoff brush. It takes rotary agitation plus negative-pressure extraction, which pulls the loosened debris straight into the vacuum instead of pushing it back into your laundry room.
Dryer Vent Cleaning Company in Aledo
Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning is the Dryer Vent Cleaning company that treats Aledo’s long vent runs as the real job, not an add-on. A proper cleaning here means removing the flex behind the dryer, agitating the full length of the run to the exterior wall, extracting the loosened lint under negative pressure, and then verifying airflow at the termination hood. If the hood flapper is stuck, rusted, or missing, that’s part of the job, not a separate surprise charge.
Most Aledo jobs fall between $160 and $260 for the entire system. The variables are honest ones: length of the run, how many elbows are in it, and how long it’s been since the last cleaning. A straight 10-foot run on a 2018 build is quick work. A 30-foot run with two 90-degree elbows on a 1990s ranch off Mikus Road takes longer and costs more. The written price you get before we start already accounts for those details. It doesn’t change when the technician sees the duct.
What the Job Actually Involves
We don’t just poke a brush through and call it done. The process is: disconnect the dryer, camera the full run to see what we’re dealing with, agitate with Rotary brush or air-whip tools, extract with a Nikro HEPA vacuum under negative pressure, camera it again to confirm it’s clear, and test airflow at the exterior hood. You get photos of every step. If the run is too long or damaged, we tell you plainly and quote a fix before doing anything.
When Aledo Homeowners Need Us
Drying times creep up. The dryer gets hot. Clothes smell musty even after a full cycle. You find yourself running the same load twice. On rural Aledo lots where the dryer sits on an interior wall and the vent runs 20-plus feet to daylight, lint settles in the long horizontal sections because there’s less velocity to carry it. That’s when a cleaning is overdue, and honestly, most households in Aledo hit that point every one to two years.
Dryer Vent Inspection in Aledo
A Dryer Vent Inspection in Aledo is a camera-scoped look at the full lint pathway, from the back of the dryer to the exterior hood, and it costs $95 as a standalone service. If you combine it with a cleaning, the inspection is folded into the job price. You get a live view of what’s inside your vent, not a tech’s best guess. For a town where so many homes are on lots measured in acres, not feet, the inspection is the difference between guessing the run is clear and knowing it.
Here’s what we’re looking for: lint accumulation in horizontal sections, crushed or kinked flex pipe, improper materials like vinyl or foil tape, bird or rodent nesting at the termination hood, and whether the hood flapper actually opens under airflow. On Aledo properties where the outdoor unit is mounted near trees or dense brush off the Caprock area, we see bird and wasp activity more often than the city data suggests. The inspection catches that before it becomes a full blockage.
Camera-Based Inspection Process
We run a push-camera through the full duct from both directions when access allows. You watch the screen. You see the exact spot where lint has compacted or where a joint has separated under the house. No mystery, no scare tactics. If the vent is clean, we tell you it’s clean and you pay for the inspection only. That happens. Not every Aledo home with slow drying has a packed vent; some have failing dryer heating elements, and we’re not going to clean a vent that doesn’t need it.
When an Inspection Without Cleaning Makes Sense
You just moved into a home in Walsh Ranch or along Old Annetta Road and want to know the condition of the vent before your first laundry day. Or you had a cleaning done by another company and want to verify it was actually done. Or your dryer is new but drying times still feel slow. The inspection answers those questions with footage, not vibes. If the camera shows build-up, we quote a cleaning on the spot and put it in writing.
Trusted Brands We Service in Aledo
We clean and inspect dryer vents on every major dryer brand sold in the Aledo market: LG, Samsung, Whirlpool, Maytag, GE, Electrolux, and Speed Queen. The vent doesn’t care what name is on the dryer; the lint pathway behaves the same. That said, we do see Samsung and LG front-loaders on Aledo’s newer builds running longer, low-heat cycles that push more lint than older top-loaders. We also stock and install replacement vent caps, hoods, and Guardsman bird guards locally, so a rusted cap or a starling trying to nest off your exterior wall doesn’t mean waiting on a parts order. If the termination hood needs replacement, we carry the common sizes in the truck and can swap it the same visit.
Common Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Aledo Homes
- Long horizontal runs packed with lint. Aledo sits between the Fort Worth prairie and the Cross Timbers, and acreage homes often put the laundry room on an interior wall. That means 20-, 30-, sometimes 40-foot runs to reach an exterior wall. Lint settles in the long flat sections because the airflow loses velocity. A run like that needs cleaning more often than a short vertical stack, and it’s the most common reason a dryer in Aledo takes two cycles to dry a load.
- Exterior hoods that never got checked. The flapper gets painted shut during a home repaint. A bird builds a nest in the open hood off the back of a horse property. Grass clippings and dust from a mowing season clog the louvers. The vent itself could be clean as new, but if the termination point can’t open, the dryer starves. We check the hood on every single job, and we show you a photo of it.
- Builder-grade flex crushed behind the dryer. Newer Aledo subdivisions are full of homes where the dryer was installed with the cheapest foil flex available, then pushed back against the wall so hard the pipe kinked. That kink acts like a dam. Lint builds behind it fast. We replace crushed flex with rigid or semi-rigid metal duct, which is what the code requires anyway. The repair is quoted before we do it, same as the cleaning.
- Well water and septic systems affecting dryer habits. A large share of Aledo homes run on well water and septic, which means households here do fewer small loads and more big, heavy loads to avoid overtaxing the system. Big loads mean longer dry cycles. More lint than the trap can catch. The vent needs cleaning more often than the every-three-to-five-year number the industry quotes. For most Aledo households, every one to two years is realistic, depending on run length.
Pricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Aledo, TX
You already saw the headline number: $160 – $260 for a standard dryer vent cleaning in Aledo. A standalone inspection runs $95. A vent cap or hood replacement runs $40 – $90 depending on the cap, and a bird guard install is $30 – $60. A full vent reroute or replacement, which some older Aledo homes need when the run is in bad shape or was built with improper material, starts around $300 and goes up from there based on length and access. Every one of those numbers is given to you in writing before work begins. If the technician finds something else during the job, that’s also put in writing. You approve it or you don’t. The price you agreed to does not change because the van is in your driveway.
Call (737) 727-2314 and give us the layout of your laundry room and roughly how far the dryer is from an exterior wall. We’ll quote you a number on the phone that matches what you’ll pay. Free estimate, no obligation, no pressure.
We Also Serve Cities Near Aledo
Cardinal covers Dryer Vent Cleaning in Aledo and the surrounding communities, with crews regularly running to Weatherford, Azle, Crowley, and Fort Worth. If you’re just outside Aledo proper, check whether your address falls in our service area. Dispatch is coordinated from the brand’s Dallas-Fort Worth office, and crews serve Aledo locally. Call (737) 727-2314 and a live person will confirm coverage while you’re on the line.
Serving Aledo, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Aledo 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 Aledo
We camera every dryer vent, before and after. That’s not an upgrade; it’s the standard. You watch the screen while we scope the run, see what the lint looks like, and then see the same run after we’ve cleaned it. If the camera can’t access a section because of a sharp elbow or a collapsed joint, we say so plainly and tell you what it would take to access it. No Aledo job gets signed off on a guess.
For most Aledo homes, every one to two years. That’s more often than the generic three-to-five-year guidance because so many homes here sit on septic and well water, which drives bigger loads and longer dry cycles, and because acreage homes often have long horizontal runs where lint settles fastest. A short, straight vent in a newer home might genuinely go three years between cleanings. We’ll tell you which applies to your house after the first inspection rather than putting you on a calendar.
No. They are completely different systems and completely different jobs. Your dryer vent is a single duct that carries hot, damp, lint-laden air from the dryer to outside. Your air ducts are the network of supply and return lines that move heated and cooled air through your home. We do both, but they don’t overlap, and cleaning one says nothing about the condition of the other. If you want the HVAC side done, that’s a separate scope and a separate written quote.
Per system. One dryer, one vent run, one flat price. We never price by the foot or by the vent or by how dirty it is once we open it up. The quote you get before the job covers the full run from dryer to exterior hood. If the camera shows a longer or more complicated run than the phone estimate assumed, we’ll explain the adjustment before touching the duct, and you approve it in writing or you don’t. Nobody in Aledo gets a bill that surprises them.
The lint trap catches maybe 60 to 70 percent of what comes off your clothes. The rest gets carried into the duct. When that duct is long and horizontal, like the runs we see off FM 1187 and older routes outside the city core, the airflow slows enough that the lint settles in their hundreds of feet or dozens of yards. Add a kink or a partially closed hood, and the build-up accelerates. If you’re on well water and washing heavy loads, you’re producing more lint per cycle. That’s the Aledo-specific recipe: long runs, big loads, and hoods that rarely get looked at. Call (737) 727-2314 for an exact quote on clearing yours.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct Cleaning, serving Aledo homeowners with camera-verified dryer vent cleaning and one flat price per system.