Dryer vent cleaning
Whole-home duct cleaning
Camera inspection
Sanitizing & deodorizingWhole-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.
Fast, Reliable Dryer Vent Cleaning Across Tamiami
Dryer vent cleaning in Tamiami typically runs $149 – $289 for a standard single-story home with an accessible roof or wall cap. If you live in one of the 1960s – 1990s ranch or split-level houses that dominate this part of Miami-Dade, and your dryer vent hasn’t been touched since the place was built, you’re looking at a different job entirely. We’re the local Hollis Air Duct Miami crew, led by Roy Castellanos, and we work these Tamiami floor plans every week. We know where the original rigid metal runs hide, how they fail, and what it costs to put them right. Call (850) 660-3272 for a written quote before anyone touches your vent.
Why Hollis Air Duct Miami Is Tamiami’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
Tamiami homeowners call us because we treat a dryer vent clean as an inspection first, not a quick vacuum job. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, and they arrive inside the quoted window carrying camera inspection gear, negative-air machines from Nikro, and agitation tools from Rotobrush. We don’t send a marketing rep with a shop vac. We send a trained tech who knows what a 1972 Galvanized steel run off SW 8th Street looks like after fifty years of subtropical humidity, and who can tell you in plain English whether it needs cleaning, sealing, or section replacement. Roy Castellanos set the standard for this crew: written price before work starts, job done by the book, site left cleaner than we found it. Every job carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If the work fails within a year, we come back at no charge.
Our response window to most Tamiami addresses is within one to three business days, depending on the season. During the rainy months, when lint and humidity combine to clog vents faster, we schedule more crews into the 33175 and 33184 ZIP codes. The dispatch and scheduling for this area is coordinated from the brand’s Miami office, but the crews working your street are local and know the homes. That matters when a vent run disappears behind a 1970s addition or drops into a slab foundation with no accessible cleanout.
Styles & brands we work with
Commercial Dryer Vent Cleaning in Tamiami
Commercial Dryer Vent Cleaning in Tamiami covers the multi-dryer setups in the small apartment buildings and condo associations that run along SW 8th Street, the shopping plazas near the Tamiami Canal, and the older motel properties on the western edge of the neighborhood. These are not residential vent runs. A commercial job usually means longer duct distances, larger diameter venting, multiple risers, and lint accumulation patterns driven by high daily cycle counts rather than a single family’s laundry load. In Tamiami, many of these properties occupy buildings from the 1970s and 1980s with original metal ductwork that was never designed for the throughput demands of modern high-efficiency dryers.
A commercial dryer vent cleaning for a small Tamiami property typically runs $350 – $800 depending on the number of dryers, the vent run length, and roof access. Larger buildings with rooftop caps or multi-story risers run higher. Every commercial job includes camera inspection before and after, written documentation, and the same 365-Day Done Right Promise we put on a single-family home. If the vent fails within a year, we return at no charge.
Multi-Unit and Apartment Vent Runs
Older low-rise apartments in Tamiami often share vertical dryer vent risers or route individual dryer exhausts through common wall cavities. When one unit’s lint backup isn’t caught early, the entire stack can restrict, which is why we recommend an annual camera inspection for any Tamiami building with four or more dryer connections. A failed run here is not just a cleaning issue. It’s a fire hazard and an indoor air quality liability for every unit on the line.
Restaurant and Laundromat Exhaust Lines
Small laundromats and restaurant linen services along the Tamiami corridor run dryers through long horizontal exhaust lines that accumulate lint at bends and low points where humid air condenses. These jobs need more than a brush. They need negative-air source removal and, frequently, sealing at the joints to keep the humid Tamiami air from re-entering the line. We quote these as a flat per-system price before work begins.
Dryer Vent Cleaning Service in Tamiami
Dryer Vent Cleaning Service in Tamiami starts with a camera inspection, not a brush. The tech scopes the entire run from the dryer connection to the exterior cap, identifies every bend, junction, perforation, and blockage, then gives you a written price for the clean, the seal, or the section replacement. That price does not move at the door. On a standard Tamiami ranch with an eight to fifteen foot run, the clean runs $149 – $289. If we find crushed sections, rust-perforated seams, or post-flood silt, those repairs are quoted as separate line items before any work proceeds, and you approve them in writing first.
We run our Dryer Vent Cleaning crews with HEPA-filtered negative-air machines so lint and muck are pulled out of your home, not blown back into the laundry room. That source-removal method matters in Tamiami, where older homes have accumulated decades of construction dust on top of dryer lint. A basic brush job leaves the fine particulate behind. We remove it.
Vent Rerouting and Section Replacement
When a Tamiami home’s original vent run is crushed, rusted through, or routed through a wall cavity that no longer passes inspection, we reroute it. That means running new rigid metal venting, typically along the shortest accessible path to an exterior wall or roof cap. Rerouting on a single-story Tamiami ranch usually runs $250 – $450 for the venting work itself, plus the cleaning and sealing of the remaining original run.
Bird Guard and Cap Replacement
Exterior dryer vent caps in Tamiami take a beating from humidity, salt air, and nesting birds. The caps are often rusted through or missing their damper flap entirely, which lets humid outside air back into the vent run. Replacing a standard wall or roof cap runs $45 – $120. Adding a bird guard to keep grackles and starlings out of the vent adds $30 – $60. These are small line items, but they stop the bigger problems.
Trusted Brands We Service in Tamiami
We work on every major dryer brand and vent configuration you’ll find in Tamiami homes: Whirlpool, Maytag, LG, Samsung, GE, Speed Queen, and the older Kenmore units still running in many 1980s split-levels. For the filtration side of the job, we stock and install products from Honeywell and Aprilaire when a vent issue points to broader indoor air quality work. We keep common bird guards, caps, foil tape, and rigid vent sections on the truck so most Tamiami jobs are completed in one visit. No ordering parts and coming back next week.
Common Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Tamiami Homes
- Rust-perforated original metal runs: Tamiami’s 1960s – 1990s homes often have Galvanized steel vent runs that have spent decades in humid wall cavities. The seams corrode, tiny holes open up, and lint plus humid air escape into the wall cavity. That’s a mold and fire hazard, and it cannot be fixed by cleaning alone.
- Crushed sections behind walls: Settling slabs and years of light structural movement in older Tamiami ranches and split-levels routinely crush vent runs hidden behind drywall or inside chases. The dryer still runs, but the restriction builds heat. We find these with camera inspection, not guesswork.
- Canal-area silt and flood muck: Homes along the Tamiami Canal, especially those with low-lying vent runs, pick up hardened silt from past flooding. Regular brushing skims the surface. The silt layer stays. This requires agitation tools and negative-pressure extraction to remove completely.
- Bird and rodent intrusion through missing dampers: Once the exterior cap’s damper flap rusts off or sticks open, birds nest and rodents enter the vent. In Tamiami’s climate, the organic material they leave behind breaks down fast and creates blockages that smell and restrict airflow.
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AfterPricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Tamiami, FL
A standard dryer vent cleaning for a single-family Tamiami home runs $149 – $289. That’s the flat per-system price, written before work starts, and it includes camera inspection, source-removal cleaning with negative air, and a final airflow verification. Duct repairs, section replacement, cap replacement, or bird guard installation are quoted separately and approved by you first. Homes with longer or more complex runs, second-story roof caps, or severe canal-area silt buildup run toward the upper end of the range. Multi-dryer commercial jobs run $350 – $800. Call (850) 660-3272 and we’ll give you a firm written quote based on your Tamiami address and vent configuration. No per-vent pricing. No bait-and-switch at the door.
We Also Serve Cities Near Tamiami
Our crews work throughout Tamiami and the surrounding Miami-Dade communities. We regularly schedule dryer vent cleaning, inspection, and repair in Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Gardens, and Doral, and we quote every job the same way: written price first, work done by the book, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise on paper.
Serving Tamiami, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Tamiami 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 Tamiami
The clearest signs are rust staining on the exterior cap, a visible sag or kink in any exposed vent section, or a camera inspection showing perforated seams or crushed sections inside the wall. If your Tamiami home still has its original Galvanized vent run from the 1960s – 1990s, and drying takes more than one full cycle, replacement is likely cheaper long-term than repeated cleaning. Call (850) 660-3272 for an exact quote. Estimates are free.
Homes near the Tamiami Canal sit low and have vent runs that collect flood-borne silt and dried muck, which standard brushing cannot remove. The protocol is different: camera inspection first to map the contamination, then agitation tools to break up the hardened silt layer, then negative-air extraction to pull it out rather than push it deeper. If your home sits near the canal and has flooded in the past, tell us when you call. We’ll quote it accurately.
Every 12 to 18 months for a single-family Tamiami home, and every 12 months if you run more than three loads a week or dry heavy items like towels and bedding regularly. The subtropical humidity means lint stays damp and compacts faster than it does in drier climates, and the long rainy season keeps the air inside vent runs moist enough to promote mold growth on trapped lint. Call (850) 660-3272 to schedule.
Source removal means the lint, silt, and debris are physically extracted from the vent run rather than loosened and blown through. Negative pressure is what makes that work: a HEPA-filtered vacuum unit creates suction at the vent opening while the agitation tools break material loose, so everything is pulled out of your home instead of pushed back into the laundry room or wall cavity. This is the standard for professional dryer vent work, and it’s how we clean every Tamiami job.
Yes, in many cases. We can often replace a crushed section by routing new rigid venting through an existing accessible chase, attic space, or exterior wall penetration, avoiding the need to open drywall. The camera inspection tells us whether that’s possible on your home. If wall access is unavoidable, we tell you exactly what the repair involves and what it costs before any cutting happens.
Call Hollis Air Duct Miami for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Tamiami
If your Tamiami dryer is running long cycles, your laundry room feels hot, or you haven’t had the vent looked at since you bought the house, call (850) 660-3272. We’ll schedule a camera inspection, give you a written price for the clean and any repairs, and stand behind the work for a full year with the 365-Day Done Right Promise. Written price first. Uniformed, background-checked techs. The job done by the book, and your vent actually clean before we leave. That’s the standard Roy Castellanos runs this crew on, and it’s the only one we offer.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Miami, serving Tamiami since 2004.