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 Temple City
Dryer vent cleaning in Temple City typically runs $130 – $260 for a standard single-family home, and the job takes about an hour. Most Temple City homeowners need cleaning every 12 – 18 months, though homes near unpaved roads or open land often need it more frequently. We serve all of Temple City, including neighborhoods off Las Tunas Drive, Sultana Avenue, and near Live Oak Park. Call (626) 469-5477 for a written quote before anyone touches your vent.
What makes Temple City different from San Gabriel or Arcadia is what’s under the slab. The post-war ranch homes here, hundreds of them built between 1945 and 1965, often have dryer vents routed through the concrete foundation. That’s a problem most cleaning guides never mention. We deal with it every week.
Why Hollis Air Duct Pasadena Is Temple City’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
Temple City homeowners deal with a very specific vent problem: lint and fine dust packed into concrete-embedded ducts. Our crews know that these homes, especially the ranch-style properties south of Live Oak Avenue and east of Rosemead Boulevard, can’t be cleaned with brute force. Aggressive brushing on a slab-embedded vent can crack the concrete sleeve or tear the thin metal liner. We’ve been running Rotobrush systems and negative-air machines in Temple City long enough to know exactly how much pressure each home’s vent run can take.
Every technician who arrives at a Temple City home is background-checked, uniformed, and works from a written work order. The price is set before the van is opened, and it does not change at the door. Roy Castellanos runs the crews with a simple rule: treat every Temple City home like it’s one of our own neighbors’ houses, because most of the time, it is. That’s the Garrison Code at work.
Phone calls are answered by a live person, day or night. You won’t get a call center menu or a voicemail loop.
We serve Temple City without pretending it’s the same as everywhere else. The dust loading here is higher than in most of the San Gabriel Valley because of the Santa Ana winds carrying fine silt from the foothills and unpaved roads on the city’s edges. That dust doesn’t just clog vents faster, it changes the type of blockage: fine, cement-like powder mixed with lint, not fluffy lint alone.
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Dryer Vent Installation in Temple City
Dryer Vent Installation in Temple City usually means replacing an old, rusted, or undersized vent run, or adding a proper vent where a previous owner took a shortcut. In Temple City’s slab homes, the embedded portion of a vent is often original to the house, and replacing it means routing a new run through a wall or attic instead. We see this on Sultana Avenue, on Longden Avenue, and in the neighborhoods around Emperor Elementary. A new dryer vent installation in Temple City typically runs $180 – $450 depending on the length of the run and whether we’re working through stucco, wood siding, or a finished wall.
Older Temple City homes sometimes have foil flex vent material that’s pinched, torn, or simply wrong for the application. A crushed vent behind a dryer isn’t a cleaning problem, it’s an installation problem. We replace that run with rigid metal duct and a proper exterior termination. If the existing vent cap is rusted or missing a damper, we install a new one, often with a bird guard to keep sparrows and starlings from nesting in the warm exhaust.
Wall and Roof Vent Upgrades
Some Temple City two-story homes vent through the roof, which means rain caps and flashing need attention. If your roof vent is old or leaking, the lint-laden air is also carrying moisture into your attic. That’s not theoretical, we’ve pulled damp lint clumps out of attic vent lines on multiple Temple City properties.
Rerouting Vent Runs
Sometimes the cleanest fix for a Temple City home is moving the vent run entirely. If your dryer sits against an interior wall and the current vent makes a long, winding trip through the slab, we can often route a shorter run through an exterior wall. That costs more than a simple cleaning, typically $350 – $700, but it permanently solves a recurring blockage problem and cuts drying time.
Dryer Vent Repair in Temple City
Dryer Vent Repair in Temple City usually falls into three categories: damaged exterior caps, disconnected or loose duct joints, and rust-damaged metal in slab-embedded runs. Repair pricing in Temple City typically runs $90 – $220 for cap replacement or minor joint repair, and $300 – $600 for a full replacement run when the existing vent is beyond saving. We first inspect with a camera, show you what we found, and give you the price before any repair work starts.
Loose duct joints are more dangerous than most homeowners realize. When a joint separates inside a wall cavity, your dryer is pumping hot, lint-filled air directly into the framing. That’s how house fires start, and it’s one of the first things we check on any repair call in Temple City.
Slab Vent Liner Damage
Rust flakes in your laundry area, or a dryer that takes two cycles to dry a load, can point to a damaged vent liner inside the slab. That’s a serious issue. If the embedded liner is collapsed, we’ll camera it to confirm, then route a new run above grade. We will not simply ream out a broken liner and call it done, because the problem will return within months.
Bird Guard and Cap Replacement
Birds love dryer vents. They’re warm, dark, and protected. In Temple City, where mature trees are common, we replace vent caps with bird-guarded models that allow airflow but block nesting. A cap replacement with a basic bird guard typically runs $80 – $150 in Temple City.
Trusted Brands We Service in Temple City
Hollis Air Duct Pasadena runs professional-grade equipment from Rotobrush and Abatement Technologies, and we install filtration products from Aprilaire. That means our Temple City jobs get the same tools and standards that commercial crews use on office buildings and hospitals. We stock common vent caps, bird guards, and rigid duct sections for Temple City homes, so most installation and repair jobs are completed in one visit. You don’t wait for parts to ship. We keep the truck stocked for the houses we actually work in, which means stock for 1950s slab ranches, not just new construction.
Common Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Temple City Homes
- Slab-embedded lint compaction: Temple City’s original ranch homes route vents through the concrete foundation, and that run collects fine dust and pollen that standard brushing can’t always remove. We use a negative-air approach with HEPA filtration to pull the material out without damaging the liner.
- Santa Ana dust loading: When the winds blow, fine silt from the foothills and unpaved roads settles into every exterior vent opening. Homes near the northern edge of Temple City, where open land is closer, often need cleaning every 8 – 12 months instead of the usual 12 – 18.
- Winter moisture in slab vents: Rain raises humidity inside uninsulated concrete-embedded ducts, turning dry lint into a damp, stubborn plug. If your dryer vent has never been cleaned and your laundry area smells musty after rain, that’s the likely cause.
- Outbuilding and detached laundry systems: Temple City’s larger lots sometimes have laundry closets in garages or detached utility rooms. Those vents are frequently forgotten, and they collect rodent nests, agricultural dust, and years of lint. We service those systems too, and we’ll recommend a cleaning schedule specific to the property.
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AfterPricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Temple City, CA
Here’s what Temple City homeowners can expect to pay with Hollis Air Duct Pasadena:
- Standard dryer vent cleaning: $130 – $180 for a single-family home with an accessible vent run.
- Slab-embedded vent cleaning with camera inspection: $180 – $260, including before-and-after footage.
- Dryer vent installation (new run): $180 – $450 depending on run length and wall type.
- Dryer vent repair (cap, joint, or liner): $90 – $220 for minor repairs; $300 – $600 for full replacement runs.
The one number you’ll never see from us is a teaser price that balloons once the tech is inside. The price is written down before work starts, and it holds. Every job is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise, which means if the vent clogs again or the repair fails within a year, we come back at no charge. Call (626) 469-5477 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Temple City
In addition to Temple City, our crews work in El Monte, San Gabriel, Arcadia, and Rosemead. If you’re on the edge of Temple City, close to the Rosemead or Arcadia border, give us a call and we’ll confirm coverage. For a full look at our process, see our Dryer Vent Cleaning page, or learn more about Temple City service coverage.
Field Notes From Temple City
We cleared a dryer vent in a 1950s ranch off Sultana Avenue where the lint pathway ran through the slab. Using a Rotobrush with camera inspection, our tech found a 70% blockage of fine dust and pollen from nearby unpaved roads, plus rust flakes from the embedded metal duct. After negative-pressure cleaning with HEPA filtration, airflow returned to full, and we recommended a shorter cleaning interval due to the home’s exposed location near open land.
That job is a pretty standard Temple City call for us. The dryer was running hot, the clothes took forever to dry, and the homeowner had been told by another company that the vent was fine. It wasn’t fine. The camera doesn’t lie, and neither do we.
Homes near the northern edge of Temple City, where the lots back up to open land or unpaved access roads, load up with fine particulate that behaves differently from normal household lint. Lint is fluffy and fibrous. This dust is fine, dense, and packs like sediment. When it combines with winter moisture inside a cool slab duct, you get a dense mat that standard brushing just polishes on top. That’s why we run negative-air extraction on these jobs rather than just spinning a brush through and calling it clean.
Serving Temple City, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Temple City 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 Temple City
Every 8 – 12 months. Homes near unpaved roads or open land around Temple City’s northern edge pull in fine dust that packs into the vent much faster than normal household lint, and waiting 18 months risks a serious airflow problem. Call (626) 469-5477 and we’ll give you a straight recommendation based on your exact location.
Yes, we can, and we do it carefully. Temple City’s slab-embedded vents can’t be aggressively brushed without risking damage to the concrete sleeve or metal liner, so we use a camera to inspect first, then clean with controlled negative-pressure extraction rather than brute force. We’ve done this on hundreds of Temple City ranch homes.
Yes, fireplaces and wood stoves add fine ash and particulate to the indoor air, and that material finds its way into the dryer’s air intake. On Temple City properties with regular wood burning, we typically see darker, finer residue in the vent run, and we may recommend more frequent filter changes and vent checks. It’s not a separate service, but it changes the maintenance picture.
If your clothes need two full cycles to dry, the dryer feels hotter than usual on the outside, and you see no visible lint accumulating in the trap, your blockage is likely fine dust packed deeper in the vent run. Temple City homes near open land get this exact profile, and a standard cleaning won’t always tell you the difference. Our camera inspection shows exactly what’s inside before we clean.
Yes, we service dryer vents in outbuildings and detached laundry rooms, and these runs often need cleaning more often than the main house because they collect agricultural dust, rodent activity, and general neglect. The price is the same base range as a standard cleaning, and we’ll assess the specific run and give you a written quote before work starts.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Pasadena, serving Temple City with written prices and the 365-Day Done Right Promise on every job.