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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 Catharpin, where the Census finds only detached houses: we clean the line from the dryer out to the hood.
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Licensed and insuredVirginia Class A contractor #2705192276
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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 Catharpin
The Census sorts the ZIP’s 334 owner homes into detached houses, with townhouses and apartments at zero. A detached house has four outside walls and a roof to choose from, and no row-house hallway to cross. A short run straight out the back wall is simple. One that climbs from an upstairs laundry through a ceiling and the attic collects lint at each bend. Look at where yours leaves the house.
Prince William County Fire and Rescue recommends clearing the lint from the dryer’s exhaust pipe once a year and checking behind the dryer for a crushed or blocked run. The firefighters also name slow drying and clothes that come out hot to the touch as signs to get the dryer looked at. We treat that as a reason to book a dryer vent cleaning before the first fall freeze, which the median year puts at October 24.
The median owner home went up in 1986, and about four in ten were built before 1980, so many lines are older than the dryers on them. Hoods age too. Hail up to ping pong ball size fell near Catharpin on August 18, 2011, and a flap bent or cracked then may still hang open. During the dryer vent cleaning we check that the flap drops shut when the dryer stops.
Numerous large trees came down near Catharpin on June 22, 2020, and more fell along Sanders Lane on May 22, 2022. Where big trees stand near the house, leaves and bark pile at the hood. Dulles logs 101.7 days a year with lows at or below freezing, and damp air cooling in a long run along a cold wall tends to leave lint packed tighter.
When it’s due
In a Catharpin laundry room the first sign is usually a load that needs a second run, or a room that turns warm and humid while the dryer works. Lint packing the line is the common cause. Look at the hood outside: if its flap barely lifts while the dryer runs, the air isn’t getting out.
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.
Fire departments around Northern Virginia say once a year, and sooner if clothes start taking longer to dry. If you can’t remember the last dryer vent cleaning, it’s due.
The dryer vent, locally
Prince William County Fire and Rescue says to clean the lint out of the dryer vent pipe once a year, to check the venting behind the dryer for damage or restriction, and to have the dryer inspected if clothes take longer than normal to dry or come out hotter than usual. Source.
Our Virginia Class A contractor license, 2705192276, is on the side of the van.
Choosing who cleans it
Questions to ask anybody who quotes you, us included.
Ask to see photos of what the camera found, and ask what the hood needs. In a town where the median house dates to 1986, the hood may be as old as the house. Run the dryer when they finish: the flap should open fully while it runs and close when it stops.
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.
Two of our crew going over a work order before the day's calls.
From our Google reviews
5.0 stars across 1,132 reviews. Read them on our reviews page.
We had Aaron from Swiftpro clean our dryer vent and he did a wonderful job. Arrived on time, was courteous and professional. He found and fixed a problem with the vent attachment at no extra charge. Would recommend highly!
Where we work
Next door to Catharpin: Gainesville, Haymarket, Centreville, Chantilly and Bristow.
Questions
Prince William County Fire and Rescue recommends clearing lint from the dryer’s exhaust pipe once a year, so that’s the interval to start from. Big laundry weeks and a long run are reasons to go sooner, and the photos from the camera show how fast your line is filling.
It changes the route. In a detached Catharpin house, the line from an upstairs dryer can leave through a side wall or climb to the roof, and either way the elbows are where the camera tends to find the lint that matters. The cleaning still runs from the dryer to the hood.
$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 Catharpin 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.