Genesee, King County
Cleaning a dryer vent in Genesee costs between $105 and $295. A short duct leaving through a wall at ground level costs the least. The figure rises when the outlet sits high on a wall or on the roof, when the run is long and bends several times, or when birds have built in it. Every foot of duct is in that price, the hidden middle included, not only the ends within arm's reach.
Typical investment
$105–$295
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$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Genesee homes.
Level 1 examination of everything reachable, with a Level 2 camera pass when the reachable parts leave a question open
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Full-height brushing of the flue with a head sized to its shape and material
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Assessment of the stack from roofline to crown, with a photo of each defect
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Camera survey and measurement of the existing flue before anything is ordered
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Measurement of each flue tile, or of the whole crown for a multi-flue cap
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Burner, pilot assembly and firebox cleaned; logs or media put back in the layout the manual shows
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Laundry rooms on this hill come in every generation. In the Census ZIP code area that also covers Alki, Admiral and north Seaview, about 18.3 percent of housing units went up in 2010 or later, while fewer than four in ten units, 39.5 percent, are detached houses. That means plenty of townhouses and apartments, where a dryer often sits in a closet in the middle of the plan and its duct has to travel a long way to reach an outside wall. Older houses have the opposite story: the dryer arrived after the house was built, and its vent went wherever a hole was easiest to cut.
HistoryLink's account of Genesee Hill School shows families arriving faster than classrooms could be built: parents asked for a school in January 1945, it opened in January 1949, and a ten-room addition followed by September of that year. None of the houses from that boom was designed around a clothes dryer. Where one was added later, its duct often runs through a crawl space or a basement ceiling to whichever wall was nearest.
The newest housing in the area is a different case. Census estimates give 18.3 percent of units in the surrounding ZIP code area to the years since 2010. In a stacked townhouse the duct may climb a floor or more to a roof or upper-wall outlet. Both layouts can hide a long run with several bends, and Washington's residential code limits the length of a dryer duct, taking five feet off that limit for every right-angle turn.
Every dryer vent cleaning we do in Genesee includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowEither way, lint is the problem. It slips past the screen in the machine and settles along the duct, thickest at bends and at the outlet, where moist air slows. A dryer that needs two cycles, a laundry room that turns warm and damp, or a top that feels hot to the touch are the usual warnings. A plastic or foil accordion hose behind the machine makes it worse, since its ridges hold lint and it crushes easily when the dryer is pushed back against the wall.
West Seattle is built on two north-south ridges with steep edges, the Seattle Landslide Study explains, and parts of Genesee tilt sharply toward the west. WeatherSpark notes that within two miles of its Seattle reference point the land rises or falls by as much as 449 feet. On a lot like that, a house can show one story to the street and two or three to the back yard.
That changes where a dryer vent comes out. A laundry on the lower floor may exhaust through the downhill wall, above a drop, under a deck, or into a planted bank that collects leaves against the hood. We plan for that before we arrive: if the outlet is out of reach from the ground, we clean from the indoor end with a longer brush and check the flap from a safe vantage, and the quote reflects the access instead of surprising you afterward.
We trace the duct from the machine to its outlet, count the elbows and note how the outside end is reached.
With the machine on, we read air speed at the hood; that number is the baseline you compare against at the end.
A rotary brush runs from the indoor end while the vacuum pulls loosened lint away; long runs are worked from both ends.
The hood is cleared, its flap made to swing freely, and any screen that traps lint is pointed out.
A second reading confirms the flow, and we tell you if the route itself is too long for the dryer to push through.
What this work is quoted at for Genesee homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Genesee | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Dryer Vent Cleaning | $105–$295 | Full run cleaned; roof or upper-floor terminations at the top |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Relining | From $1,900 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Genesee. The exact figure is set on site after a $99 inspection (credited toward the job if you go ahead), and you approve it before any work starts.
Genesee is a hill neighborhood between SW Genesee and SW Charlestown streets, from 46th to 56th Avenues SW, with homes from before and after World War II, about 23% of those in its ZIP code area built before 1940 and 16% in the 1940s and 1950s.
GeneseeKing County, WA · 47.564, -122.372
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Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
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Four steps, each one on paper — so you always know what happens next.
Choose a genuine opening on the crew's calendar. Confirmation is immediate.
Liner, crown, cap, flashing and masonry examined in order — each finding photographed.
One document, plain numbers, covering only the work your chimney genuinely needs.
The repair is completed, then handed over with before-and-after photos of every item.
For most households, once a year. Heavy laundry loads, a long run or a vent ending on the roof may call for a shorter interval.
No. That fee applies to chimneys. Dryer vent cleaning has its own price, quoted before we start.
Washington's residential code requires dryer exhaust to discharge outdoors. We will show you where yours ends and what rerouting it would involve.
Yes. We fit a short metal connector in its place and keep it within the length the code allows.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
