A Cottage Grove, MN chimney sweep for dryer vents, gas fireplaces and sweeping

Chimney sweep in Cottage Grove, with the dryer vent on the same visit

Both jobs clear a duct that carries heat and lint or soot out of your house, and both are easy to forget. One appointment covers the lot. The crew is already set up, you are home once, and nothing slides to next year because the second job needed another day.

1. We lay drop cloths at the fireplace and the laundry room.
2. We sweep the flue, using an industrial vacuum with the brushes.
3. We clear the dryer vent from the back of the machine to the outside hood.
4. We look over the gas fireplace, if you have one, and tell you what we found.

Our own people handle the gas line work, so a unit that needs a connection or a part never means a second company. A gas fireplace service covers the burner, pilot, igniter and venting.

Warning signs in the laundry room

A clogged vent warns you before it fails. Watch for these:

• Towels still damp after a full cycle, or loads that need two
• A dryer drum or the top of the machine that feels hotter than usual
• A hot, musty smell in the laundry room
• Lint around the outside hood, or a flap that barely opens
• More humidity in the room where the dryer sits

Lint burns, and a blocked vent traps heat behind it. If the dryer is running hot and smelling like scorched cloth, stop using it and call. We do dryer vent cleaning on vents that exit through the roof as well as the wall.

If your back lot is wooded

Ravine Regional Park brings woods and hills to the edge of town. If your back lot is wooded, the top of the flue and the vent hood collect leaves and seed more easily. That is a reason to check the cap and the outside hood each fall, whether the fireplace is gas or wood.

The chimney in your house might be brick or a factory-built metal flue. Either one gets the same careful look. Starting prices for all of this sit on the services page.