Sammamish, King County
A dryer vent is a four-inch pipe that carries hot, damp, lint-laden air out of the house, and it clogs slowly enough that nobody notices until a load takes two cycles. We clean the whole run, appliance connection, duct and exterior hood alike, for $105 to $265. The lower price fits a brief run that exits at ground level. The higher one covers roof or second-story exits and ducts with a nest inside.
Typical investment
$105–$265
Book an inspection
Book your $99 inspection
$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
Not sure where to start
Pick what you're seeing at your Sammamish home — we'll point you to the right fix.
What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Sammamish homes.
A Level 1 check, or a Level 2 with a camera run through the flue when the visible parts are not enough
Learn more
Brushing of the whole flue, top to firebox, with brush heads sized to the liner
Learn more
A photographed assessment that separates cosmetic wear from structural damage
Learn more
A camera run and full measurements before any liner is ordered
Learn more
Measurement of each flue, or of the full crown for a multi-flue cap
Learn more
Cleaning and testing of the burner, the pilot assembly and the ignition
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Sammamish is a city of houses: the census classifies about 81.4% of its housing units as single-family detached, against 50.0% for King County. In a detached two-story house the laundry room is not always on an outside wall, and the duct has to travel to reach daylight. Under Washington's 2021 residential code, a dryer's 4-inch metal exhaust is allowed a maximum of 35 feet, with every 90-degree elbow costing 5 feet of that allowance. Every foot and every bend past what the dryer can push is a place for lint to settle.
A dryer termination is warm, sheltered and has no screen, by code. That makes it attractive to nesting birds and easy for debris to enter. Sammamish's hazard mitigation annex places 48% of the city beneath tree canopy or woody shrubs and describes limbs coming down in number during winter storms, so hoods here collect needles and get knocked out of shape.
On the roof, moss joins in. WSU Extension's demossing manual lists removing shade-creating branches among the ways to control it, which tells you where it grows: shaded roof planes, the same ones where a dryer cap sits damp. We clear growth and litter from around the termination and confirm the damper closes, since a flap held open by debris lets cold air and rain back down the duct.
Every dryer vent cleaning we do in Sammamish includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowNationally, the U.S. Fire Administration's estimate is 2,900 clothes dryer fires in homes each year. In 34 percent of them the top contributing factor was a dryer nobody had cleaned, and the fires cluster in January. That month falls deep in the plateau's wet season, when laundry does not go outside and the dryer runs most. Beyond lint, we find crushed foil transition hoses behind the machine, ducts that have come apart in a crawl space or attic, and exterior flaps stuck open or shut.
We find where the duct goes, how long it is and where it ends, and take a baseline airflow reading.
A spinning brush on flexible rods travels the full length while a vacuum pulls the loosened lint out.
The outside hood or roof cap is opened and cleaned, and the backdraft damper is checked to see that it swings easily.
The dryer is reconnected with a proper transition, run, and measured again. You see both numbers.
What this work is quoted at for Sammamish homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Sammamish | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Dryer Vent Cleaning | $105–$265 | Full run cleaned; roof or upper-floor terminations at the top |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Relining | From $1,900 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Sammamish. The exact figure is set on site after a $99 inspection (credited toward the job if you go ahead), and you approve it before any work starts.
Sammamish is a 24-square-mile plateau city, roughly 500 feet up, on Lake Sammamish, with homes with a median build year of 1994, more than half of them built in the 1980s and 1990s. We work every part of it — Sunny Hills, Sahalee, Klahanie included.
SammamishKing County, WA · 47.616, -122.036
Before and after
Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
Before
After
Before
After
Before
After
Four steps, each one on paper — so you always know what happens next.
Choose a genuine opening on the crew's calendar. Confirmation is immediate.
Liner, crown, cap, flashing and masonry examined in order — each finding photographed.
One document, plain numbers, covering only the work your chimney genuinely needs.
The repair is completed, then handed over with before-and-after photos of every item.
$105 to $265. Ground-level wall vents with a short duct are near $105. Roof terminations, second-story exits, long runs and nest removal bring it toward $265.
No. Washington's residential code forbids screens at a dryer exhaust termination because they catch lint. The code calls for a backdraft damper instead, and a termination that is outside and no closer than 3 feet to any opening in the building.
Once a year suits most households, and sooner if drying times start to stretch. Long or roof-vented runs deserve the yearly schedule without exception.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
