A new dryer in a new laundry room should be the easy case. In West Chester and the townships around it, May remodeling season proves that it often is not. The appliance is fine. The duct someone just installed is too long, too flexible, or pointed at the wrong place.
Learn more
Earth Day lands in April, and most household advice that week is about thermostats and light bulbs. The dryer is a better target. It is one of the larger appliances in a Chester or Delaware County home, and a clogged vent makes every cycle longer than it needs to be. Longer cycles are energy. Energy is the bill.
Learn more
Memorial Day weekend fills guest rooms across Chester and Delaware Counties. The cookout is the part people plan. The laundry is the part that shows up on Monday: beach towels, extra sheets, a weekend of t-shirts, and maybe a round of uniforms if the sports season has not wrapped up.
Learn more
May is a busy moving month in Chester and Delaware Counties. Settlements stack up before the end of the school year, and the punch list is usually about paint, locks, and whether the refrigerator stays. The dryer vent almost never makes that list. It should. You are about to run your own laundry through a duct someone else has been filling with lint.
Learn more
A Delaware County snow day does more than close schools. It can shut the flap on a dryer vent. Media, Havertown, Springfield, Wayne, and Drexel Hill homes often terminate the dryer on a side wall, under a deck, or low on a foundation. Those are exactly the spots where drifting snow and refreezing meltwater pile up in February.
Learn more
A dryer in a 1920s Coatesville twin and a dryer in a new Exton townhouse do the same job. The vent behind them often does not. Older Chester County houses were not built around a long exhaust run. Laundry moved to the basement later, the nearest outside wall was already a finished room away, and the duct took whatever path the joists allowed.
Learn more