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Why dryer vents clog in Gilbert buildings

Most of Gilbert was built fast. Hay fields and dairy land turned into subdivisions like Val Vista Lakes and Power Ranch. The buildings are mostly stucco over a wood frame with a concrete tile roof. A lot of them have an upstairs. In many of those floor plans the laundry room sits upstairs or in the middle of the building. That puts the dryer far from an outside wall. So the vent runs up through the attic and out the roof.

A long vent with bends in it collects lint faster than a short vent going straight out a wall. Fine desert dust blows in at the roof cap, and birds like to nest in those caps. As the vent fills up, the dryer is pushing hot air against a blockage. The first thing you notice is clothes that need another cycle. Left alone, packed lint next to a hot dryer is a common way fires start.

So on a Gilbert dryer vent job the inspection covers both ends of the vent. We look at the connection behind the dryer, then climb up and check the cap on the tile roof. Then we clear the full run between them. If the vent is crushed or pulled loose in the attic, we tell you before anything gets closed up. A clean vent with a gap in it still dumps lint into the attic.

• Dryer vent inspected from the laundry room to the roof
• Lint cleared from the full length of the vent
• Roof cap checked for nests and blown-in dust
• Driveways and patios pressure washed after dust storms
• Tile floors left clean around the work area

Grease builds up in Gilbert restaurant hoods

Gilbert has a lot of places to eat. They run from the Heritage District around the old water tower to the shopping centers along Gilbert Road. Each of those kitchens runs an exhaust hood over the cook line, and on a busy night that hood works through the whole dinner rush. Our Google listing describes our business in plain words: cleaning of commercial kitchen exhaust systems.

Grease rides up with the smoke from the fryers and the grill. The filters catch some of it. The rest cools and sticks to the inside of the hood and the ductwork above it, and more collects in the fan on the roof. In a Gilbert summer that rooftop fan sits in full sun all afternoon. A flare-up on the line can reach grease sitting in the duct, and that is how a small kitchen fire becomes a big one.

We clean the whole path the grease takes, from the filters over the line up to the exhaust fan on the roof. If the fan is hard to open, we can fit a hinge kit so it tilts back for cleaning. Mark Moreno wrote this in his Google review: "Good communication left my hood spotless". Before we leave a Gilbert kitchen, we walk you through what we found in the duct and on the roof.

What monsoon season does to Gilbert concrete

Monsoon season runs through the summer here, usually from July into September. Dust storms roll up from the open desert to the south and leave fine dirt on everything in Gilbert. Then a storm cell comes through, and the rain turns that dust into mud. It dries in brown streaks on driveways and pool decks, and it gets tracked across the tile floors inside.

Gilbert water is hard, and that leaves another kind of stain. Sprinklers that hit a block wall or the pavers every morning leave white mineral rings that a garden hose will not rinse off. Restaurants and shopping centers get it too, on the sidewalk by the front door. Out back, grease drips onto the concrete around the dumpster. Customers walk across that front sidewalk before they ever reach the counter.

Pressure washing takes both of those off. We wash the driveway and the patio. The mineral rings get extra time, because they take longer to lift than plain dirt. On commercial property we wash the storefront sidewalk and the stained concrete out back. A good time to book it is right after the storm season ends. Then the place heads into the cooler months clean.

Getting a price in Gilbert

Call (602) 454-6790 Monday to Thursday, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. You can also contact us online with your Gilbert address and what needs cleaning. Tell us whether it is a restaurant hood or a dryer vent. We set up a free inspection and look at the job in person. After that you get a free quote to read over before any work is booked.