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 Brooklyn
Dryer vent cleaning in Brooklyn typically costs $149 – $289 for a standard single-family home run, and most appointments are completed in 60 – 90 minutes. The real variable here isn’t labor; it’s the length and condition of your vent run. A short 15-foot run from a first-floor laundry room in Bay Ridge costs less than an 80-foot vertical stack in a Park Slope brownstone. We’re Morton’s Air Duct Brooklyn, and we’ve been tracing lint through pre-war chases, shared stacks, and converted loft spiral ducts across this borough since our founding in 2005. Call (607) 536-9605 and a live person answers, any hour, to schedule a time that works around your building’s rules and your family’s routine.
Why Mortons Air Duct Brooklyn Is Brooklyn’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
Brooklyn isn’t one housing market. It’s four or five, stacked on top of each other. We work in six-story Crown Heights walk-ups where the dryer vent shares a common stack with four other units. We work in Ditmas Park Victorians retrofitted with central air through closets never designed for ductwork. We work in Williamsburg conversions where exposed spiral ducts run up brick walls and need hand-wiping, not rotary brushing. Paul Adeyemi leads our Brooklyn crews with a simple rule: know the building before you touch the vent.
Every technician arrives in uniform, background-checked, with shoe covers on before the first step inside and drop cloths under every work path. We work to the Cedarwell Care Promise on every job, which sounds like marketing until you’ve had a crew leave without it. That promise means a written price before any work starts, a photo of the clean-up before the crew leaves, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise behind it. If something isn’t right, we make it right. That’s the whole sentence. Our Dryer Vent Cleaning team answers to that standard on every Brooklyn block we serve.
Reviews from Brooklyn customers mention the same things: the crew arrived when they said, the floors were protected, and the price on the invoice matched the price on the written quote. You don’t build that reputation with coupons. You build it by treating a pre-war parlor floor like it’s your own.
Styles & brands we work with
Dryer Vent Inspection in Brooklyn
Dryer Vent Inspection in Brooklyn matters more than in most places because so many vents terminate somewhere you can’t see: a shared roof, a rear yard behind a locked gate, or a light well only accessible through a neighbor’s window. A standard inspection runs $89 – $149 and includes a camera pull through the full vent length, a check of every accessible joint, and a written summary of what we found with photos. In Brooklyn, we’re also looking for things a suburban inspection doesn’t cover: disconnected joints hidden inside plaster-over-lath shafts, bird guards clogged with ice from a January nor’easter, and backdraft dampers that haven’t closed properly since the Clinton administration.
When to Schedule an Inspection
If your dryer takes two cycles to dry a load, book an inspection. If you smell damp lint or see moisture on the wall behind the machine, book one sooner. If you just bought a brownstone and the previous owner left a vent run of unknown length and unknown condition, book it before you run the first load. We find disconnected joints in pre-war buildings more often than any other failure mode, and the fix is usually simple once someone actually looks.
What the Camera Shows
We run a camera through the full vent path and show you exactly what’s there. Lint build-up, a crushed section, a joint that’s pulled apart inside a wall cavity, or a rooftop cap that’s been painted shut by a contractor. You get a written report with photos, which helps with co-op boards and landlords who want proof before they approve a cleaning.
Commercial Dryer Vent Cleaning in Brooklyn
Commercial Dryer Vent Cleaning in Brooklyn covers laundromats, apartment building laundry rooms, salons, gyms, and any shared facility where multiple dryers feed a common exhaust system. A typical commercial cleaning in Brooklyn runs $299 – $599 depending on dryer count, vent length, and access. These jobs are scheduled around building quiet hours whenever possible, because we know that laundry room sits under someone’s bedroom. Our commercial work in Brooklyn involves more shared stacks and rooftop terminations than almost any other market we serve, and the stakes are higher: a blocked common vent doesn’t just slow down one dryer, it pushes moist lint-filled air into lower-floor units.
Multi-Unit Laundry Rooms
In a six-story co-op with a basement laundry room, lint from every dryer accumulates in one vertical stack. One tenant’s dryer filter catches most of their lint; the rest goes into that shared run. We clean the full stack from bottom to roof, verify airflow at every connection point, and provide a report the super or board can keep on file.
Restaurant and Gym Lint Loads
Commercial dryers in gyms and health clubs run towel loads all day, every day. That’s a heavy lint burden. Salons and pet facilities add hair, dust, and product residue to the mix. We schedule quarterly or semi-annual cleanings for these buildings and keep a service log so you know when the next visit is due before the airflow starts dropping.
Trusted Brands We Service in Brooklyn
We service and clean dryer vent systems connected to machines from every major manufacturer, and our technicians work with equipment from Honeywell, Aprilaire, and Abatement Technologies when the job calls for it. That matters in Brooklyn because many buildings have older lint traps, duct boosters, and exhaust caps that don’t match modern specs. We keep common replacement caps and guards in our local trucks so a simple cap swap doesn’t turn into a two-week parts wait. We also service vents connected to Guardsman and Rotobrush systems where those are already installed. The tool matters, but the technician matters more. Ours are trained on all of them and carry what they need to finish the job on the first visit.
See the difference
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AfterCommon Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Brooklyn Homes
- Disconnected joints inside plaster-over-lath shafts. Pre-war brownstones hide vent runs behind original walls, and those old joints pull apart over decades. Lint accumulates inside the wall cavity, not the vent, and airflow drops below 50% before anyone notices a symptom.
- Shared stacks that collect everyone’s lint. In six-story walk-ups, four or five dryers often feed one common vent. Backpressure from a clogged stack pushes warm, moist air into lower-floor apartments. That’s where mystery mold smells come from.
- Rooftop guards clogged with ice and debris. A bird guard looks useful until a nor’easter packs it with snow and sleet. When that’s the only exhaust path for a basement-level dryer, the whole system stops breathing.
- Exposed spiral duct in converted lofts. Williamsburg and Bushwick loft conversions often have spiral metal ductwork running up the interior wall. It can’t be rotary-brushed without scratching the finish, so we hand-wipe it and use negative pressure collection to pull the lint loose.
Pricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Brooklyn, NY
A standard residential dryer vent cleaning in Brooklyn runs $149 – $289 for most single-family homes and condos with vent runs under 35 feet. Longer runs, vertical stacks, and rooftop terminations push the range to $289 – $449. Commercial jobs start at $299 and scale with dryer count and stack length. Dryer vent inspections run $89 – $149 and include a camera pull plus a written report. We don’t quote per-vent pricing and we don’t advertise a low teaser number that turns into a bigger invoice once we’re standing in your laundry room. The written price you get before work starts is the price you pay. Call (607) 536-9605 for a free estimate and an honest number for your specific building.
We Also Serve Cities Near Brooklyn
Our crews cover all of Brooklyn, from Greenpoint down to Sheepshead Bay and everywhere between. We also serve Brooklyn‘s neighboring areas including New York, Maspeth, Astoria, and Elmhurst. If your building is on the border or you manage properties across borough lines, call (607) 536-9605 and we’ll schedule all of them in one route.
Serving Brooklyn, NY - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn
Yes. Brooklyn brownstone vent runs are often 60 – 80 feet long, with multiple turns through plaster-over-lath chases or old chimneys. A suburban home might have a 15-foot horizontal run; a Park Slope brownstone dryer vent can run 80 feet vertically to the roof. Longer runs collect lint faster because airflow slows as distance increases. We recommend an inspection every 12 months and cleaning every 12 – 18 months for most Brooklyn brownstones, versus 24 months for a typical suburban run. Call (607) 536-9605 and we’ll camera-test your run and give you a straight answer on your actual interval.
We coordinate with the building super or management office, schedule the work during daytime hours or a window approved for mechanical work, and use negative-pressure collection so lint never blows out the rooftop termination and onto a neighbor’s terrace. Our tools run quieter than a shop vac; some buildings have rules about that too. If your building requires advance notice or proof of insurance, we’ll provide whatever paperwork your board asks for. The cleaning itself stays inside your unit and the shared stack.
Many Brooklyn apartments don’t have a traditional dryer vent at all; they have a lint trap or a ventless condenser dryer. In that case, the service you need is different. We still clean the blower wheel, the internal lint path, and the lint trap housing, all of which accumulate lint even without an exterior run. If there’s a short interior duct, we clean that too. You won’t see full air-volume increases, but the dryer runs cooler and the fire risk drops. Call (607) 536-9605 and describe your setup; we’ll tell you what’s cleanable before you book anything.
Usually, yes. Most Brooklyn rooftop terminations are accessible through a roof hatch, bulkhead door, or a fire escape, and our negative-pressure equipment pulls lint from the interior side back to our collection unit. No scaffolding or street permits required. If your building has a locked roof or a hatch only the super can open, we coordinate that access with management during scheduling. In rare cases where a termination is truly unreachable, we clean from the dryer side and note it in the written report so you know what couldn’t be reached and why.
Interior dryer vent cleaning doesn’t require a Landmarks Preservation Commission permit, because nothing on the exterior changes. But if a vent cap is rusted through and needs replacement on a landmarked facade, that’s an LPC review item. We can clean the existing system without triggering any landmark review, and we’ll tell you if the cap looks like it’ll need replacement down the line. In neighborhoods like Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights, we’re careful not to disturb original plaster medallions, rosettes, or woodwork when running our camera lines and collection hoses. Drop cloths and shoe covers are standard, not on request.
Written by Paul Adeyemi, Owner at Mortons Air Duct Brooklyn, serving Brooklyn since 2005.