The hose is older than the dryer
In a lot of 1960s Fairfax houses the dryer has been replaced more than once and the foil hose behind it came with an earlier one. If yours is foil or plastic, that’s the part to change.
Fairfax, Virginia
Dryer vent cleaning in Fairfax.
Dryer vent cleaning is $199, normally $298, with a year of Comfort+ membership included, or $199 added to an air duct cleaning.
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Dryer vent cleaning in the City of Fairfax and the county side, about nine miles from our shop in Chantilly. Camera photos of what we find, shown to you.
- The whole dryer vent line, end to end
- Camera photos of what we find
- Airflow checked at the hood
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What it costs
What dryer vent cleaning costs in Fairfax.
The same prices as everywhere we work: dryer vent cleaning is $199, normally $298, with a year of Comfort+ membership included, or $199 added to an air duct cleaning.
Dryer vent cleaning, a year of Comfort+ membership included
$199, normally $298
Dryer vent cleaning, added to an air duct cleaning
$199
The price covers the whole dryer vent line, from the back of the dryer to the hood outside, with camera photos of what we find, a dated invoice, and before and after photos of your line when we can get a clear shot. Anything past the cleaning, like a new hose or a guard on the hood, you get the price first.
With Comfort+ membership, $199 a year covers the dryer vent cleaning every year, plus a water heater flush with a sewer camera inspection, a heating maintenance visit and a cooling maintenance visit, and we tell you when each one is due.
Recent work
Recent dryer vent cleaning in Fairfax.
What our technicians found and fixed on visits in Fairfax, from their notes on each job.
September 2026
Cleaned from the outside end with flexible rods and brushes, then a camera look down the line and an airflow reading at the hood. Light lint, now gone.
September 2026
Dryer vent cleaning booked with a year of Comfort+ membership: the old flexible hose came off, the line was brushed out, and a semi-rigid connector went on. The outdoor AC coil was cleaned the same day.
August 2026
A dryer vent line long enough to need 30 feet of rods, cleaned end to end with an airflow check.
What’s different in Fairfax
One Fairfax address, three routes for the dryer vent.
The City of Fairfax and Mantua are mostly single-family houses from the 1960s; the City’s median house went up in 1966. In a house that age the dryer vent is often a short run out the nearest wall, so the trouble tends to sit right behind the dryer, in a crinkly foil or vinyl hose that ought to be rigid metal.
Fair Lakes and Fair Oaks went up in the 1990s. About half the homes in Fair Oaks are in condo and apartment buildings, and a third of Fair Lakes is townhouses. In a Fair Lakes townhouse the dryer vent usually has to cross a ceiling or rise to the roof to get out, and the longer the path, the sooner the lint builds up.
Kings Park West sits in between: mostly 1970s single-family houses, with about three in ten homes townhouses. Same dryer vent cleaning, a different route to the outside, and it’s the route that decides how long the visit takes. Merrifield is the newest part of the Fairfax address, more than half of it built since 2000 and most of it condo and apartment buildings, where the line may run through the building rather than out your own wall.
Whether your ZIP is 22030, 22031, 22032 or 22033, it’s the same crew from our Chantilly shop, about nine miles up Route 50, and the same price.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
Where the dryer vents run across Fairfax.
Census figures for each place, and what that usually means for the dryer vent. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
| Place | Median home built | Most homes are | Heated with | What the dryer vent usually does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Oaks | 1995 | condo and apartment buildings, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Condo and apartment buildings: the dryer vent may run through the building and belong to the association. |
| City of Fairfax | 1966 | single-family houses, about 5 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Older houses: shorter dryer vent runs, and foil or plastic hose behind the dryer that should be metal. |
| Fairfax Station | 1982 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 5 in 10 | 1980s and 90s houses: dryer vents through a wall or a ceiling, often never cleaned end to end. |
| Kings Park West | 1976 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 5 in 10 | Older houses: shorter dryer vent runs, and foil or plastic hose behind the dryer that should be metal. |
| Merrifield | 1990 | condo and apartment buildings, about 6 in 10 | gas, about 6 in 10 | Condo and apartment buildings: the dryer vent may run through the building and belong to the association. |
| Fair Lakes | 1998 | townhouses, about 3 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | 1980s and 90s houses: dryer vents through a wall or a ceiling, often never cleaned end to end. |
| Long Branch | 1968 | single-family houses, about 9 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Older houses: shorter dryer vent runs, and foil or plastic hose behind the dryer that should be metal. |
| Mantua | 1968 | single-family houses, about 7 in 10 | gas, about 7 in 10 | Older houses: shorter dryer vent runs, and foil or plastic hose behind the dryer that should be metal. |
By the numbers
Fairfax homes, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
The City of Fairfax
- Median home built1966 Census
- Built before 1980about 7 in 10 Census
- Built since 2000about 2 in 10 Census
- Most homes aresingle-family houses, about 5 in 10 Census
- Heated withgas, about 7 in 10 Census
- Rentedabout 3 in 10 Census
- Houses this age often still have a foil or plastic hose behind the dryer, and metal is what fire departments recommend.
The Fairfax County side
Most of the Fairfax Station Census place, in the table, has Fairfax mail, so it counts here.
When it’s due
When a dryer vent needs cleaning in Fairfax.
The hose behind the dryer is old
Older houses often still have a foil or plastic accordion hose behind the dryer. It crushes, it sags where lint collects, and fire departments tell people to use metal instead.
Towels take two cycles
The first thing most people notice. When the dryer vent is packed, the damp air has nowhere to go, so the clothes stay wet and the dryer runs hot.
The dryer vent, locally
What the fire department says about dryer vents.
Fairfax County
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue tells every household to clean the lint out of the dryer vent pipe once a year, sooner if clothes are taking longer to dry, and to have a gas dryer checked by a professional. Source.
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Choosing who cleans it
How to pick a dryer vent cleaning company in Fairfax.
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Do they check the hose behind the dryer, not just the line?
In a 1960s Fairfax house a lot of the trouble lives in the few feet of hose between dryer and wall: crushed, kinked, or foil where metal belongs. A dryer vent cleaning that skips it has missed the part you can see.
Do they clean the whole line, end to end?
Brushing the first few feet from the laundry room isn’t a dryer vent cleaning. Ask whether they clean from the back of the dryer to the hood outside, and how they get the lint out of the house instead of pushing it further down.
Do they show you what’s inside the line?
Camera photos of the inside of your dryer vent line are how you know it needed cleaning, and before and after photos are how you know the job was done. Ask to see them, and for a dated invoice if your HOA wants proof.
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From our Google reviews
What our customers say.
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I would gladly recommend them to anyone in the greater Fairfax/Alexandria area without reservation.
Swiftpro came out the same day I called when my AC was out and had it fixed in less than an hour after arriving.
Great job. Professional – knows his stuff and is a good guy to boot! Signed up to membership- I will have trust and confidence in your group to care for the critical big ticket utility elements of my house. Thanks for super service.
Questions
Dryer vent cleaning questions from Fairfax.
Do you clean dryer vents in Fair Lakes and Fair Oaks townhouses?
Yes, long runs to the roof or the back wall included. When you book, say where the hood comes out and roughly how high, and the tech shows up with a ladder tall enough.
Is the City of Fairfax any different from the county side for dryer vent cleaning?
Not for the cleaning. Same crew, same prices, same visit. The City has its own government and its own fire department; the dryer vent is the same job on either side of the line.
My 1960s house has a foil hose behind the dryer. Is that a problem?
It’s worth replacing. Foil and plastic accordion hose crushes easily behind the dryer and sags where lint collects, which is why fire departments tell people to use metal. We check the hose on every dryer vent cleaning and price a metal one before we touch it.
How much does dryer vent cleaning cost in Fairfax?
$199, normally $298, with a year of Comfort+ membership included, or $199 added to an air duct cleaning.
Ready when you are
Get the dryer vent cleaning on the calendar.
Call, or send the form at the top. Under an hour in most homes. If you’d rather have your dryer vent cleaning done every year without keeping track, ask about Comfort+ membership on the same call.
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SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is a licensed, BBB Accredited (A rating), independently owned heating, cooling and plumbing company in Chantilly, serving Fairfax and the rest of Northern Virginia. Virginia contractor license #2705192276. 5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews on Google, Angi, Yelp, the BBB and Facebook. SwiftPro maintains a dedicated HVAC team and a dedicated plumbing team.
From SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing in Chantilly. Housing figures are the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024, for each place named; permit, water and sewer facts link to each office’s own page and were checked in September and October 2026.