Whole-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.
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AfterFast, Reliable Dryer Vent Cleaning Across The Colony
Dryer vent cleaning in The Colony typically runs $150 – $280 for a standard single-family home, with most jobs completed in 60 to 90 minutes. We’re the Dryer Vent Cleaning team that serves The Colony from our Dallas-Fort Worth dispatch office, and we know the neighborhood-specific problems this city’s housing stock creates. Call (361) 326-5060 for a free written estimate before any work starts.
We’ve been in homes from Stewart Peninsula to The Tribute to the original core near Main Street. The Colony isn’t a patchwork of eras. Nearly every house here went up between the mid-1980s and the 2000s, built fast by production builders who ran the same foil-flex dryer duct through the same hot attic spaces. That uniformity means we know what we’ll find before we open the access panel. Roy Castellanos built Hollis Air Duct Cleaning on exactly this kind of predictable, fixable problem – show up, diagnose it straight, price it in writing, and stand behind it for a year.
Why Hollis Air Duct Cleaning Is The Colony’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
Our reputation in The Colony comes from handling the same compressed-era housing cohort day after day. We don’t guess at what’s in your attic. We’ve already seen it in the house three doors down.
Calls from The Colony get answered by a live person, 24 hours a day. No voicemail loop, no “we’ll call you back Monday.” Scheduling runs from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, and we route crews to hit The Colony windows without making you wait half a day.
Every technician is background-checked and uniformed. You get a name before anyone knocks. The price is written down before we touch a tool. And the 365-Day Done Right Promise means if our work fails within a year, we come back and make it right at no charge, including a free second visit. That’s not a slogan. It’s in writing on every job.
Dryer Vent Cleaning Service in The Colony
Dryer Vent Cleaning Service in The Colony means more than vacuuming lint from a trap. We inspect the full run from the back of your dryer to the exterior termination, remove accumulated lint with rotary brush systems and negative-air source removal, and check for the crushed or disconnected flex that this city’s builder-grade installations are famous for. A typical cleaning in The Colony runs $150 – $220. If we find collapsed ductwork or a separated joint in the attic, repair adds $80 – $180 depending on material and access.
Camera Inspection and Lint Removal
We run a borescope through the full length of the vent before we clean. In The Colony’s long attic runs, this shows us sag points, crushed sections, and lint accumulation the homeowner never sees. Our Rotobrush rotary system loosens packed lint while Nikro negative-air machines pull it out under containment. We finish with HEPA filtration so nothing resetstles in your laundry room or attic.
Attic Run Repair During Cleaning
About half the The Colony jobs we start as “cleanings” turn into repairs. The foil-flex duct behind your dryer, routed through 140°F attic heat for twenty-plus years, has often flattened at a bend or pulled apart at a joint. We carry rigid aluminum pipe and proper sealing materials to replace the failed section, not just clean around it. The price for this repair is added to your written estimate before we cut anything.
Dryer Vent Installation in The Colony
Dryer Vent Installation in The Colony addresses the root problem we find in so many of this city’s original homes: builder-grade foil-flex that was never meant to last decades in a Texas attic. We replace collapsed or improperly routed runs with rigid or semi-rigid aluminum duct, proper support strapping, and code-compliant terminations. A full replacement run in The Colony typically runs $280 – $450, including materials, labor, and cleanup. Rerouting to shorten the run or reduce elbows adds $100 – $200.
Rigid Pipe Replacement for Failed Flex
When we open an attic in The Colony and find foil-flex turned to dust, we don’t patch it. We replace the run with rigid aluminum pipe where code allows, or UL-listed semi-rigid where flexibility is required. Rigid pipe maintains its shape under temperature cycling and carries lint with far less accumulation than the corrugated flex it replaces. We support it every four feet and seal every joint with high-temperature mastic, not foil tape that dries out.
Proper Termination and Backflow Prevention
Many The Colony homes terminate dryer vents through the roof or a distant exterior wall with no backdraft damper. We install proper vent caps with integrated dampers that close when the dryer stops, keeping hot attic air, pollen, and the occasional bird out of your duct. Bird guard installation runs $45 – $85 per termination.
Trusted Brands We Service in The Colony
Our equipment roster includes Rotobrush rotary brush systems for mechanical agitation, Nikro negative-air machines for contained extraction, and filtration from Guardsman and Abatement Technologies to capture particles at 0.3 microns. We stock common replacement parts – rigid pipe, elbows, termination caps, high-temperature mastic – so The Colony customers aren’t waiting on a parts run while the job sits half-finished. When your vent needs more than cleaning, we can usually complete the repair same visit because the truck is already loaded for what this city’s housing stock typically requires.
Common Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in The Colony Homes
- Crushed foil-flex in attic heat. The original builder-grade duct in The Colony’s 1980s and 1990s homes was thin foil-flex, strapped loosely across hot attic framing. After twenty years of 100°F+ summers, it collapses flat behind air handlers or at sag points, creating a total blockage we find with the camera before the homeowner ever suspects it.
- Disconnected joints dumping lint into the attic. Tape and friction fittings dry out. We regularly find separated joints in The Colony attics where lint has been blowing directly into insulation for months, creating a compounded fire hazard and degrading attic air quality.
- Overlong runs with too many elbows. Production builders in The Colony routed dryer vents through multiple attic truss bays to reach distant exterior walls. Each elbow reduces airflow velocity. Lint settles at the low points. The trap catches maybe 60% of what it should; the rest packs the run.
- Roof terminations with no accessible cleanout. Some The Colony subdivisions, particularly in The Shores, terminate dryer vents through the roof with no wall access. Without a proper cleanout port, these runs go years without maintenance until the dryer fails or the homeowner smells something wrong.
Pricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in The Colony, TX
We publish ranges because The Colony homeowners have seen enough bait-and-switch. A standard dryer vent cleaning – full run inspection, rotary brush cleaning, negative-air extraction, and flow test – runs $150 – $220. If we find collapsed or disconnected duct that needs repair or replacement during the cleaning, the total typically lands at $230 – $400. Bird guard or vent cap replacement adds $45 – $85. Full rerouting of an overlong or improperly terminated run runs $280 – $450.
What moves the price: length of the run, number of elbows, attic access difficulty, and whether we’re cleaning or replacing material. We inspect first, write the price down, and get your approval before any work starts. No per-foot add-ons at the door. No “it turned out worse than we thought” surcharges. Estimates are free. Call (361) 326-5060 and we’ll give you a straight answer on what your specific setup likely needs.
We Also Serve Cities Near The Colony
Our crews work The Colony regularly and also handle dryer vent cleaning in Little Elm, Lewisville, Lake Dallas, and Carrollton. The same written pricing, same 365-Day Done Right Promise, same background-checked uniformed technicians apply across the service area. Scheduling is coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office to keep routes tight and arrival windows honest.
Serving The Colony, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the The Colony 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 The Colony
Because almost every The Colony home was built in a compressed mid-1980s-to-2000s production-builder window, dryer vents here share the same builder-grade foil-flex construction and long, elbow-heavy attic runs – so the lint fire risk in The Colony is a neighborhood-wide cohort problem, not an isolated one. In older core subdivisions near Main Street, that flex has often collapsed or disconnected in the attic heat, letting lint dump into the attic instead of reaching the outside termination. We price the repair separately and get approval before we start.
We measure airflow at the exterior termination with an anemometer and run a camera inspection through the full length of the duct. A clean trap with a blocked vent still shows low or zero airflow at the cap and visible lint packing on camera. In The Colony’s long attic runs, we often find the trap is doing its job while the duct behind it is 70% blocked. Call (361) 326-5060 for a free inspection if your dryer’s cycle times are climbing.
The Colony’s combination of original foil-flex duct, extreme attic heat, and lint accumulation creates a higher-than-average fire risk because the duct material itself degrades under thermal cycling and the long runs allow massive lint buildup before any symptom shows. The National Fire Protection Association lists dryer vents as a leading cause of home fires; in The Colony, the uniform age of housing stock means the hazard is concentrated and predictable, not random. Annual inspection is the standard we recommend here.
We do both, and we replace more duct in The Colony than in most nearby cities because of the compressed-era housing stock. When camera inspection shows collapsed flex, separated joints, or overlong runs with excessive elbows, we carry rigid aluminum pipe, proper supports, and high-temperature mastic to rebuild the run correctly. The replacement price is written into your estimate before we cut anything. Call (361) 326-5060 for a free assessment of whether your vent needs cleaning or full replacement.
Annual inspection is appropriate for most The Colony homes given the age and construction of the original ductwork. Homes with heavy laundry use, multiple residents, or long runs through hot attics may need cleaning every six to eight months. We check the exterior termination monthly ourselves and call us if airflow feels weak or cycle times increase. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers our work for a full year, so there’s no guesswork about whether the job held up.
On a 1980s home off Main Street in The Colony’s original core, a customer called after two dryers in a row started shutting off mid-cycle. Our tech ran a camera inspection down the run and found the builder-grade foil-flex dryer duct crushed flat behind the air handler platform and separated at a joint, with a solid mat of lint packed into the sag. We reconnected the run, sealed the joint, and replaced the crushed section with rigid pipe – airflow at the outside termination went from almost nothing to full blast. We finished with negative pressure source removal and HEPA filtration so the loosened lint never entered the laundry room.
Ready to find out what’s actually in your dryer vent? Call (361) 326-5060 for a free written estimate. We’ll inspect the full run, show you what the camera sees, and give you one flat price before any work starts – backed by our 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing.
Written by Roy Castellanos, Owner at Hollis Air Duct Cleaning, serving The Colony since 2004.