One service people often overlook is dryer vent cleaning. While a benefit of dryer vent cleaning is also energy savings, a more important benefit is safety. Lint is highly flammable and despite the use of lint traps, it still builds up in vents.
Often when we are on a job, we discover that the dryer vent is totally plugged with lint. When the exhaust from a gas dryer can’t exit through the vent, it has nowhere to go but back into the hot dryer. This creates a combustible situation that could ignite at any moment.
Indeed, in the United States every year homeowners suffer millions of dollars of property damage due to dryer fires. Lessen your chances of this happening with an annual dryer vent cleaning