The hood is two floors up
In a Vienna house built since 2000 the dryer vent hood often sits high on a back wall or on the roof, where nobody looks at it. Watch it from the yard while the dryer runs; if the flap hangs still, lint is choking the line.
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 Vienna, in the town and on the county side. Camera photos of what’s in your line, then a cleaning from the dryer to the hood.
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What it costs
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.
What’s different in Vienna
Inside the Town of Vienna about eight in ten homes are single-family houses, and about two thirds went up before 1980. In a house that age the laundry is often in the basement or the lower level, and the dryer vent goes a short way out the nearest wall. Short is good. The trouble sits behind the dryer instead: an old foil or plastic hose, crushed flat every time somebody pushes the machine back.
The houses built since 2000, about a quarter of the town, turned that around. The laundry room moved upstairs next to the bedrooms, and the dryer vent now crosses a ceiling or climbs to the roof before it reaches the outside. A long run with a couple of turns fills faster than a short one, and on a second floor you can’t easily see from the yard whether the flap is opening.
In Wolf Trap, on the county side, nearly every home is a single-family house, most from the 1970s and 80s, with the laundry on the main floor or off the garage. Those dryer vents usually run straight through an outside wall, sometimes low behind shrubs or under a deck, where leaves and nests collect in front of the hood.
In the Windover Heights Historic District, the cleaning never touches the outside of the house. Moving a dryer vent hood to a different wall does, and an outside change that isn’t an in-kind replacement goes to the district’s Board of Review for a Certificate of Appropriateness. If a hood there needs replacing, we’ll say so before anything changes.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf Trap | 1980 | single-family houses, nearly all | gas, about 7 in 10 | 1980s and 90s houses: dryer vents through a wall or a ceiling, often never cleaned end to end. |
| Vienna | 1972 | single-family houses, about 8 in 10 | gas, about 8 in 10 | Older houses: shorter dryer vent runs, and foil or plastic hose behind the dryer that should be metal. |
By the numbers
From the Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 survey. Median year built and heat count owner-occupied homes only.
Nearly the whole town sits in 22180, which it shares with county streets toward Dunn Loring and Merrifield.
Vienna mail outside the town line: Wolf Trap and the Tysons edge in 22182, the Oakton side of 22181, Dunn Loring. The figures are Wolf Trap’s, the biggest piece.
When it’s due
In a Vienna house built since 2000 the dryer vent hood often sits high on a back wall or on the roof, where nobody looks at it. Watch it from the yard while the dryer runs; if the flap hangs still, lint is choking the line.
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.
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
The town’s own fire station, Station 2 on Center Street, is one of Fairfax County Fire and Rescue’s, and the county’s advice holds inside the town line: clean the lint out of the dryer vent pipe once a year, and sooner when clothes start taking longer to dry. Source.
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Choosing who cleans it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
In the older Vienna houses that hose is where most of the trouble is. A real dryer vent cleaning includes moving the dryer, checking the hose, and pricing a metal one before swapping anything.
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.
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
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
Moises and SwiftPro were excellent. They cleaned my dryer duct and repaired an area that had become disconnected and was therefore posing a fire hazard. Moises was punctual, friendly, and even went the extra mile to help me briefly with another small household project.
Where we work
Next door to Vienna: Dunn Loring, Oakton, McLean, Fairfax and Reston.
Questions
Yes, the whole line from the back of the dryer to the hood, wherever it comes out. When you book, tell us whether the hood is on a second floor wall or the roof, so we come with a ladder that reaches it.
Yes, once a year like any other. A short run clogs slower, but the hose behind the dryer and the hood outside still collect lint, and a low hood near a wooded yard is a favorite spot for a nest. The camera photos show you what was in yours.
$199, normally $298, with a year of Comfort+ membership included, or $199 added to an air duct cleaning.
Ready when you are
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.
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing
4230 Lafayette Center Dr N, Chantilly, VA 20151
44679 Endicott Dr, Suite 211, Ashburn, VA 20147
Virginia Class A contractor license #2705192276
SwiftPro Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is a licensed, BBB Accredited (A rating), independently owned heating, cooling and plumbing company in Chantilly, serving Vienna 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.