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 San Pedro
Dryer vent cleaning in San Pedro typically costs $145 – $295 for a standard single-family home and takes about an hour. For homes in Vista del Oro, coastal bluff areas, or older harbor-adjacent neighborhoods, expect the higher end of that range because those vents routinely run 20 feet or more through crawlspaces and finished walls. We schedule San Pedro jobs every weekday and most Saturdays. If your dryer takes two cycles to dry a load, or the outside flap barely opens when the machine runs, the vent is telling you something. Call (562) 548-7365 and we’ll get you on the schedule with a written price before any work starts.
Why Hollis Air Duct Long Beach Is San Pedro’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
San Pedro homeowners deal with a set of vent problems that inland cities simply don’t have. Salt air eats galvanized ducting at the joints. Marine-layer moisture turns lint into a damp, rust-tinted paste that clings to duct walls. And in older hillside homes built before current code, vents often run 20-plus feet with no access panel, which means diagnosing the problem requires a camera and some patience. That’s the work we do here day in and day out.
Our Dryer Vent Cleaning team works from the Los Angeles office but serves San Pedro locally, which means we know the difference between a 1920s craftsman bungalow off Gaffey and a 1960s tract home in San Pedro’s central district. Roy Castellanos runs our crews, and he holds every tech to The Garrison Code: arrive inside the window, price it in writing before touching anything, do the work by the book, leave the site clean. San Pedro customers get the same 365-Day Done Right Promise we give every home we serve. If the vent clogs again or the repair fails within a year, we come back at no charge. No forms, no negotiations.
Styles & brands we work with
Dryer Vent Cleaning Company in San Pedro
Hollis Air Duct Long Beach is the Dryer Vent Cleaning Company San Pedro homeowners call when the vent hasn’t been touched in years and the dryer is working twice as hard as it should. We clean the full run from the dryer connection to the outside termination, using a rotary brush system paired with a negative-air machine so the loosened lint gets pulled out rather than pushed into the laundry room. In San Pedro’s older homes, we often find the run itself is the problem: original 4-inch galvanized ducting that has corroded at the joints, creating interior edges that snag lint and turn a simple cleaning into a recurring blockage. We’ll show you the before-and-after photos of your own vent, so you know what was actually in there.
Corroded Joints and Salt-Blocked Hoods
When the outside vent hood is painted over or packed with salt crystals, the lint backs up behind it even if the interior run is clean. That’s common along San Pedro’s coastal bluff streets. We inspect the hood, the flap, and the termination point on every job, then replace or clear them as needed.
Cleaning vs. Rerouting
Sometimes the existing vent path is so long or so deteriorated that cleaning it buys you only a few months. In that case we’ll quote a vent reroute with proper rigid metal ducting, which in San Pedro typically adds $200 – $400 depending on access. The written price comes before any work starts, and it doesn’t move at the door.
Dryer Vent Inspection in San Pedro
A Dryer Vent Inspection in San Pedro is what we recommend before buying an older home, after a vent has been dormant in a rental, or when you smell something odd coming from the laundry area. We run a camera through the entire vent run and show you exactly what’s there: corrosion, crushed sections, disconnected joints, or accumulations that standard cleaning won’t remove. Inspections run $95 – $150 for a typical San Pedro single-family home. If you then proceed with the cleaning, we credit the inspection fee toward the work.
What the Camera Shows in Older San Pedro Homes
In raised-foundation homes, the vent often runs through a damp crawlspace that smells like the harbor. We find disconnected sections where the duct has pulled apart at a joint, spilling warm, lint-filled air into the crawlspace instead of outside. In hillside construction, we find long runs with no support brackets, sagging in the middle and trapping lint at the low point. The camera tells us exactly what’s wrong before we touch anything.
Vent Cap Replacement and Bird Guard Installation
When the inspection shows a damaged or missing vent cap, we replace it the same visit. Salt air shortens the life of plastic caps, so we install metal caps with built-in bird guards where the opening is accessible from the exterior. A replacement cap in San Pedro runs $45 – $95 installed, parts included.
Trusted Brands We Service in San Pedro
We service all dryer makes and vent configurations, and we stock parts for the venting systems most common in San Pedro homes. Our equipment includes Nikro negative-air machines, which are the same units commercial restoration crews use, along with Honeywell and Aprilaire filtration products for the air that moves through your home. When a vent needs a new cap, an elbow, or a section of rigid duct, we typically have it on the truck. That means most San Pedro jobs are completed in a single visit without a follow-up order for parts. We don’t use hardware-store flex duct or painter’s tape to get a job done. The materials are matched to the run, and the work is covered in writing.
See the difference
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AfterCommon Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in San Pedro Homes
- Rust-tinted lint with a harbor smell. This is the signature issue in Vista del Oro and the coastal bluffs. Salt air infiltrates leaky registers, gets picked up by the dryer airflow, and deposits a fine rust-colored film inside the vent. It smells faintly marine and clumps more readily than inland lint.
- Crushed ducting in raised foundations. Older San Pedro homes with crawlspaces often have vent runs that were never properly supported. The duct sags, pinches, or gets crushed by someone crawling through. Airflow drops, drying time doubles, and the lint trapped behind the crush becomes a fire load.
- Outside hoods painted shut or clogged with salt crystals. We see this regularly on the older bungalows off Gaffey and Pacific. The flap can’t open so lint backs up inside the run, but the homeowner can’t see it because the entire run is hidden behind plaster and tile.
- Poorly sealed retrofits in remodeled hillside homes. When a San Pedro home gets remodeled, the dryer vent sometimes gets extended or relocated without proper sealing at the joints. Those gaps pull dust from attics and wall cavities into the vent stream, which means the vent clogs faster than it should and the air in the laundry room gets dirtier.
Pricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in San Pedro, CA
Here’s what to expect for Dryer Vent Cleaning in San Pedro. A standard clean on a single-family home with a short-to-moderate vent run runs $145 – $195. Homes with longer runs, finished walls, or second-floor laundry rooms fall in the $195 – $295 range. Vent rerouting work adds $200 – $400 depending on access and materials. Inspection alone is $95 – $150, credited toward cleaning if you proceed. The price is written before work starts and does not change at the door. No per-vent pricing, no extras for “deep cleaning.” Call (562) 548-7365 for a free estimate. We’ll tell you over the phone what the likely range is for your specific home, based on the run length and the age of the ducting.
We Also Serve Cities Near San Pedro
Our crews serve San Pedro every week, and we also take jobs in nearby Lakewood, Wilmington, Carson, and Long Beach. If you’re in a neighboring community and need dryer vent work, give us a call. We schedule by the day, not by the region, so you get the same written-price standard wherever you are.
Serving San Pedro, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the San Pedro 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 San Pedro
Salt and marine-layer moisture change the chemistry of what collects inside the vent. In San Pedro, lint arrives damp and picks up salt particles from outdoor air, so it clings to galvanized duct walls instead of blowing through. That’s why local runs clog faster and often develop corrosion at the joints, something inland Long Beach homes rarely see. Call (562) 548-7365 and we can tell you what we’d expect to find in your specific home before we even arrive.
That’s salt air infiltration. Homes in Vista del Oro sit close enough to the water that onshore breezes carry fine marine particulates into attics, crawlspaces, and any gaps in the exterior envelope. The dryer pulls that air through the vent system, and the result is lint with a faint harbor smell and a rust-tinted color. It’s not dangerous by itself, but it tells us the vent run has been pulling outdoor air for years, and the joints probably need sealing. Get the vent inspected and we’ll show you on camera exactly where the air is getting in.
Not necessarily. If the original galvanized run is still straight, supported, and free of corrosion, we can clean it and it will perform fine. But if the camera shows corrosion at the joints, interior edges that snag lint, or crushed sections, then cleaning alone won’t solve the problem. We’ll quote the replacement or reroute as a separate line item, at a written price, before any work starts.
We access the run from both ends, using the dryer connection inside and the outside termination point. If the crawlspace is the only access, our techs go in with the rotary brush and camera, but most San Pedro runs can be cleaned from the exterior termination alone. The negative-air machine runs throughout, so any loosened lint gets pulled outside rather than settling into the crawlspace. We leave the area cleaner than we found it.
Yes, and it’s one of the first things we check. Salt crystals build up on the flap hinge and the hood edges, eventually pinning the flap shut or corroding the metal. A hood that won’t open means lint backs up inside the run, hidden from view. We replace affected hoods with metal caps and bird guards, and on coastal bluff homes we recommend checking the flap monthly during marine-layer season. Call (562) 548-7365 for an inspection with a camera, and we’ll show you the condition of your hood before we touch it.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Long Beach, serving San Pedro and the South Bay.