How Much Does Dryer Vent Cleaning Cost in DFW? (2026 Price Guide)

Your dryer takes two full cycles to dry a load of jeans. The laundry room gets hot and humid when it runs. You searched "dryer vent cleaning near me," saw prices all over the map, and now you're wondering whether this is a $69 job or a $300 job.

Here's the straight answer, plus what actually moves the number, so you can tell a real cleaning from a guy with a shop vac.

The short answer: $199 flat in Dallas–Fort Worth

At 1st Choice Residential, dryer vent cleaning is $199 across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. That is the price for a standard single-family home, and it covers the whole run — dryer to termination — not just the first few feet you can reach from the laundry room.

It also comes with our 1-year workmanship warranty. If the work we did doesn't hold up, we come back.

What you should be getting for the money

The reason prices swing so wildly is that "dryer vent cleaning" describes two very different jobs. One of them fixes your problem. The other one moves lint around.

A rock-bottom coupon price almost always buys the right-hand column. That's why people call back six weeks later with the same slow-drying complaint.

What actually changes the price

How long the duct run is

A laundry room on an exterior wall might have a six-foot run. A laundry room in the middle of the house can run thirty feet through joists and up a chase. Longer runs take longer and need different tools.

There's a code limit here worth knowing. The 2021 International Residential Code, Section M1502, caps the developed length of a dryer exhaust duct at 35 feet — and that allowance drops by 2.5 feet for every 45-degree bend and 5 feet for every 90-degree bend. Four 90-degree elbows eat 20 feet of your budget before the duct goes anywhere.

If your builder ran a long, elbow-heavy vent, your dryer was fighting uphill from day one. Cleaning helps. Sometimes rerouting helps more, and we'll tell you which one you're looking at.

Where the vent terminates

Wall terminations are straightforward. Roof terminations mean getting on the roof, and in DFW that often means steep composition shingle in July. Roof-vented dryers also collect more debris, because gravity works against you and birds like the warm airflow.

What we find inside

Some jobs are lint. Some jobs are a bird nest, a crushed section of foil duct behind the dryer, or a flexible plastic duct that should never have been installed. The InterNACHI dryer vent safety standards are clear that flexible foil and plastic ducting sag, trap lint, and are easily crushed. If yours is that material, cleaning it is a temporary fix.

Multi-unit and commercial buildings

Apartments, duplexes, and shared stacks price differently. If you manage a property, call us and we'll quote the building rather than the unit.

Signs you shouldn't wait on this

• Clothes take more than one cycle to dry — the most common first symptom.
• The dryer or the laundry room feels unusually hot during a cycle.
• You can smell something hot or scorched when the dryer runs.
• The exterior flapper doesn't open, or barely flutters, while the dryer is running.
• Lint is collecting on the outside of the exterior vent hood.
• It's been more than a year — or you don't know when it was last done.

Why this is a safety item, not just a laundry annoyance

We don't like fear-based sales pitches, so here are the actual numbers from the people who count these things.

The U.S. Fire Administration's topical report on clothes dryer fires in residential buildings found that failure to clean was the leading cause, at roughly one-third of those fires. The NFPA's research on home fires involving clothes dryers reaches the same conclusion: failure to clean accounted for about 33% of home clothes dryer fires, and dust, fiber or lint was the first item ignited in roughly a quarter of them.

Lint is dry, fine, and combustible, and it sits directly in a heated airstream. That's the whole story. Cleaning the vent removes the fuel.

Frequently asked questions

How much does dryer vent cleaning cost in Dallas–Fort Worth?

1st Choice Residential charges $199 for dryer vent cleaning in DFW. That is a flat price for a standard single-family home and covers the full duct run, the exterior termination, and post-work airflow verification. Long roof-vented runs, damaged ductwork, or multi-unit buildings are quoted separately.

How often should a dryer vent be cleaned?

Once a year for a typical household. Clean it more often if you have a large family, wash pet bedding, run the dryer daily, or have a duct run longer than about 25 feet. Clean the lint screen after every single load — that's on you, and it matters.

Can I clean my own dryer vent?

You can clean the first few feet with a brush kit from a hardware store, and that's better than nothing. What you generally can't do yourself is reach the middle of a long run, clear a roof termination safely, or check the duct against code. If your run is short and wall-vented, DIY is reasonable. If it's long, elbow-heavy, or roof-vented, it isn't.

How long does a dryer vent cleaning take?

Most single-family homes take 45 minutes to 90 minutes, including pulling the dryer, brushing the run, clearing the termination, and testing airflow. If a technician is in and out in ten minutes, you did not get a full cleaning.

Will cleaning the vent fix my slow-drying dryer?

Usually, yes — restricted airflow is the most common cause of long dry times. If drying is still slow after a proper cleaning, the problem is typically the duct design itself (too long, too many bends, wrong material) or a failing heating element. We'll tell you which one we're seeing.

Book it and be done with it

We've been doing this since 2009. Veteran-owned, licensed and insured, locally owned rather than a franchise, with NFI-certified technicians and 500+ 5-star reviews across DFW and the Gulf Coast. We show up when we say we will, we lay down protection, and we clean up after ourselves.

Dryer vent cleaning — $199. 1-year workmanship warranty.

• Book online: Schedule your dryer vent cleaning
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Already having us out? If your fireplace hasn't been looked at either, ask about bundling a chimney sweep and camera inspection on the same visit — it's $199 and saves you a second trip. We serve homeowners across Southlake and the wider metroplex.