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 Cibolo
If your dryer is taking two cycles to finish a load, the vent line is almost certainly clogged with lint and construction debris. In Cibolo, we clear that line, prove it with before-and-after photos, and hand you a written price before we touch anything. Most Cibolo dryer vent cleanings run $129 – $189 for a standard single-family home, and we carry the right equipment for the two-story attic-routed vents that dominate this city’s post-2000 builds. Call (254) 347-3897 and you’ll get a live person, not a voicemail tree.
Why Cardinal Air Duct San Antonio Is Cibolo’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
Cibolo grew fast. Real fast. Between 2000 and 2020 the population nearly quintupled, and that means thousands of homes built in a hurry across Turning Stone, Buffalo Crossing, and the neighborhoods along FM 1103. We’ve cleaned dryer vents in enough of those floor plans to know exactly where the vent run terminates before we even pull up. That’s not a party trick. It means we bring the right length of rotary brush and the right capture setup on the first trip, instead of discovering the run is 30 feet longer than expected and rescheduling.
Homeowners in Cibolo call us because our Dryer Vent Cleaning techs wear uniforms, arrive background-checked, and run professional-grade Rotobrush and Nikro equipment, not a repurposed shop-vac. Every job carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work isn’t right within a year, we return and correct it at no charge. That’s not a slogan. It’s a written commitment on every invoice. Omar Haddad, who leads our team, inspects the before-and-after photo set on every job personally. It keeps us honest, and it keeps Cibolo dryers breathing.
Styles & brands we work with
Commercial Dryer Vent Cleaning in Cibolo
Commercial Dryer Vent Cleaning in Cibolo means clearing multi-load laundry rooms at properties along Main Street and the retail clusters near Cibolo Valley Drive, where vent runs are longer, lint volume is higher, and a clogged line can shut down operations. A commercial job typically runs $250 – $600 depending on the number of dryers, the length of the run, and whether roof access is required. We schedule around your hours, not ours, and you’ll see photo proof of every section we clear.
Multi-Dryer Laundry Rooms
Apartment properties and small commercial laundries in Cibolo often share a single vent riser or a combined manifold. When one dryer isn’t exhausting properly, the lint backpressure affects every unit on that line. We camera the full run, identify the restriction, and clear it at the source.
Roof and Rooftop Vent Terminations
Some Cibolo commercial buildings terminate dryer vents on the roof, which means climbing, sealing, and working from height. Our techs are equipped for roof access and use Abatement Technologies containment so no lint or debris gets blown back onto the roof or into neighboring units.
Dryer Vent Cleaning Service in Cibolo
A standard Dryer Vent Cleaning Service in Cibolo for a two-story single-family home runs $129 – $189. The job takes 45 to 90 minutes and includes a full interior scrubbing of the vent run from the dryer connection to the exterior termination point, followed by a camera inspection so you can see the line is actually clear. If your home was built after 2000 in a master-planned community, we already know the typical vent path, which saves time and keeps the price at the bottom of that range.
Builder-Dust and New Construction Vents
New Cibolo homes ship with a dirty secret: drywall dust, sawdust, and scraps of flex duct left inside the vent run during construction. Builders rarely clean dryer vents at handover. We remove that debris before your dryer’s first birthday.
Lint Removal and Airflow Restoration
Clogged dryer vents cause longer dry times, hotter dryer cabinets, and in the worst cases, a lint fire. Our rotary brush loosens the packed lint, and a Nikro HEPA-filtered negative-pressure vacuum pulls it out of the line, not back into your laundry room.
Trusted Brands We Service in Cibolo
Cibolo homes run a mix of dryer brands: Whirlpool, LG, Samsung, Maytag, GE, and the occasional Speed Queen in the laundry room. We service all of them, and we stock Guardsman vent caps and bird guards locally so a broken termination doesn’t turn into a two-week parts wait. If you’ve got a vent cap that’s rusted through or a bird that’s decided the warm exhaust pipe is prime real estate, we’ll swap in a new guard and cap the same visit. Our techs also work around Honeywell and Aprilaire filtration components when the dryer is adjacent to an HVAC return, because cross-contamination between systems is common in newer Cibolo floor plans where the laundry room sits near the mechanical closet.
Common Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Cibolo Homes
- Drywall dust compacted at the first elbow. In new construction, the first 90-degree bend after the dryer is where dust and flex-duct scraps collect. By the time the homeowner notices the dryer running hot, the passage is already half blocked.
- Sagging flex duct in attic runs. Two-story Cibolo homes often route the dryer vent up through the attic and out a soffit or roof cap. Where the flexible duct dips between trusses, lint settles and hardens. You can’t brush that from the outside. We access the attic and clear it at the low points.
- Bird nests and capped terminations. Cibolo sits along a migration corridor, and warm dryer exhaust attracts birds in the cooler months. A nest plus a lint mat is a genuine fire hazard. We remove both and install a bird guard so it doesn’t come back.
- Builder-skipped vent lines. We’ve seen vents that were never connected at all, or connected but never cleaned after the drywall crew left. A new house does not mean a clean vent. In Buffalo Crossing and Turning Stone, we’ve found gypsum dust clumps the size of a fist inside vent runs on homes less than three years old.
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AfterPricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Cibolo, TX
For most single-family homes in Cibolo, dryer vent cleaning runs $129 – $189. If the vent terminates on a second-story roof or requires significant attic access, expect $189 – $249. Commercial jobs start around $250. What moves the price: length of the vent run, number of elbows, roof versus ground-level access, and whether a bird guard or vent cap replacement is needed. We give you a written price before the work begins, and that number does not change at the door. Call (254) 347-3897 for a free estimate over the phone, and we’ll tell you honestly what your setup is likely to cost based on your address.
Cibolo’s master-planned communities like Turning Stone and Buffalo Crossing share identical floor plans and HVAC layouts, so our techs often know exactly where the dryer vent run terminates before arriving. That’s also how we can spot when a previous cleaning was skipped, because the lint pathway is never the same depth from one house to the next, even when the floor plan is identical. A vent that should be 18 feet long but reads 22 feet of resistance was never actually cleared.
Last week we cleared a dryer vent in Buffalo Crossing where the builder had left a wad of drywall dust and a scrap of flexible duct liner jammed at the first elbow. Our Rotobrush agitation tools and negative pressure pulled out a fist-sized clump of lint and gypsum; the homeowner said the dryer had taken 90 minutes per load since move-in. After source removal and a camera inspection, airflow was back to spec. That’s the kind of thing a new homeowner doesn’t expect and a builder never mentions.
We Also Serve Cities Near Cibolo
Our crews cover Cibolo and the surrounding area, including Cibolo neighborhoods like Turning Stone, Buffalo Crossing, and homes along Bolton Road. We also serve Converse, New Braunfels, San Antonio, and Floresville with the same written-before-we-work pricing and 365-Day Done Right Promise. Dispatch is coordinated from our San Antonio office, but the techs on your street are local to the Cibolo area.
Serving Cibolo, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Cibolo 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 Cibolo
Because the builders don’t clean the vent before they hand over the keys. Drywall sanding dust, sawdust, and flex-duct scraps get left inside the vent run during construction, and the first time you run the dryer, that debris gets pushed into the elbows and low points. Most new Cibolo homes benefit from a vent cleaning within the first 12 to 18 months of occupancy. Call (254) 347-3897 if your new dryer is already taking two cycles per load.
In Turning Stone and Buffalo Crossing, identical floor plans mean identical vent paths, which lets us arrive already knowing where the line runs and how long it should be. It also means when a home has a restriction that the others on the street don’t, we can tell quickly whether it’s construction debris or simply a skipped cleaning on that specific lot.
Yes, the combination of high summer humidity and nearly year-round HVAC use means more airborne lint, dust, and pollen moving through the home, and dryer vents in newer tightly-sealed houses have less natural air exchange to flush that particulate out. Spring oak and cedar pollen from the Hill Country gets pulled into the dryer intake and compressed into the vent lint. Regular cleaning every one to two years is the right interval here.
A responsible builder should have run a brush through the completed vent line after drywall finishing and before installing the dryer, then confirmed airflow with a pressure test. Almost none do. The Texas Residential Construction Commission doesn’t require it. That’s why we find gypsum dust and construction debris in the vents of Cibolo homes that are still under their original builder warranty.
Yes, and the two-story configuration makes it worse. A long attic run with sagging flex duct traps lint at the low points, the dryer’s high-limit thermostat trips repeatedly, and eventually the lint itself can ignite. The U.S. Fire Administration reports thousands of dryer fires each year, and the majority involve clogged vents. If your dryer is hot to the touch or the laundry room smells scorched, stop using the dryer and call (254) 347-3897 right away.
Get Your Cibolo Dryer Vent Cleaned Right the First Time
Whether you’re in Buffalo Crossing, Turning Stone, or a custom home off Lower Seguin Road, the fix is the same: get the vent actually cleared, see the proof, and pay a price that was written down before the work started. That’s how we operate in Cibolo, and it’s why homeowners call us when the dryer isn’t drying. Call (254) 347-3897 now and speak to a live person who can schedule your cleaning, quote your price, and answer anything else on your mind.
Written by Omar Haddad, Owner at Cardinal Air Duct San Antonio, serving Cibolo and the surrounding Texas communities.