Sweep & inspection
Caps & crowns
Flue relining
Masonry repair
Gas fireplace serviceLevel 1 sweep and inspection to the NFPA 211 annual standard - flue, crown, cap, and flashing checked and photographed
Chimney sweep logs do not sweep chimneys. They loosen some creosote - which then falls where a brush and vacuum still have to collect it.
Fast, Reliable Dryer Vent Cleaning Across Bloomington
Dryer vent cleaning in Bloomington typically costs $120 to $240 for a standard single-story home, and most jobs are completed in 60 to 90 minutes. We work throughout the 92316 zip code, from the older streets near Bloomington High School to the larger lots along the Santa Ana River bottom. If your dryer has been taking two cycles to finish a load or the laundry room smells like warm lint, the vent is telling you something. Call us at (844) 821-5749 and we’ll get a technician out to your Bloomington home, usually within a few business days.
Why Mantel Chimney Sweep Is Bloomington’s Preferred Dryer Vent Cleaning Company
We’ve spent enough time in Bloomington homes to know what we’re walking into before we even open the laundry room door. The post-war tract houses and 1960s-70s self-built homes that make up so much of this community share a common thread: dryer vents that were installed decades ago, often by the homeowner, and never touched again. That kind of install rarely meets current code, and it’s exactly where lint accumulates fastest.
Roland Vega built Mantel Chimney Sweep around the idea that a technician should be able to diagnose and fix what they find. So when we clean a dryer vent in Bloomington, we’re also looking at the whole path: the connector behind the dryer, the transition through the wall or ceiling, the chase, and the exterior termination. If we find a crushed connector, we say so and show you. If we find a vent routed into a chimney flue, we show you the camera footage before we recommend anything. That’s the difference between a company that reports problems and one that fixes them.
Homeowners in Bloomington call us because we understand the homes here. A dryer vent that was perfectly fine when a house was built in 1965 has had sixty years to collect lint, squeeze behind a newer dryer, and crack at the seams. We see it weekly.
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Our Dryer Vent Cleaning Services in Bloomington
Dryer Vent Cleaning
A full dryer vent cleaning in Bloomington takes about an hour to ninety minutes. We start by disconnecting the dryer, then run a rotating brush through the entire duct run from the appliance to the exterior termination. The goal is to remove all the compacted lint, not just what’s within arm’s reach of the lint trap. In older Bloomington homes where dryer vents run through attic spaces or along ceiling joists, that lint can be packed in tight, and it often takes a second pass to get the duct walls clean. When we’re done, we show you what came out. It’s usually more than you’d expect.
If you’ve been living with slow drying times for months, a cleaning is the first step. But if the duct is old, sagging, or made of the white plastic flex pipe that was common in the 1970s, we’ll tell you that too. A clean vent that’s still a fire risk isn’t a job well done.
Dryer Vent Inspection
Not every Bloomington home needs a full cleaning. Some need answers. Our Dryer Vent Cleaning team offers camera-based inspections for homeowners who suspect something is wrong but aren’t sure what. We run a small camera down the duct and watch the feed in real time. You see exactly what we see. Lint blockages, crushed pipe, disconnected joints, a bird nest at the termination, a vent that empties into a wall cavity instead of outside. If it’s there, the camera finds it.
This matters in Bloomington because of how many vents were originally installed. We’ve inspected ducts that looked fine from the outside and were nearly fifty percent blocked two feet in. We’ve also inspected ducts that homeowners were told needed replacing, only to find nothing wrong at all. Camera evidence protects you from both problems.
Dryer Vent Installation
When a vent is beyond cleaning, we replace it. That means new rigid or semi-rigid metal duct from the dryer to the exterior, properly sealed and supported. We do not use the white plastic flex hose that you can buy at a hardware store. It sags, it traps lint, and it’s been against code for years. In Bloomington’s older laundry rooms, where space is tight and the washer-dryer pair sits in a closet or a small alcove off the kitchen, getting the connector right matters. A kinked or crushed transition is the most common cause of slow drying and overheating we find.
Some older homes in Bloomington have a more complicated problem: the dryer vent shares a chase with the chimney. That brings us to the issue that defines this community.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees — you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
The Bloomington Chimney-Vent Connection
Here’s something you won’t read on a generic dryer vent page. In Bloomington’s 1950s-70s self-built and tract homes, we regularly find dryer vents that exhaust into the same aging chimney chase as the fireplace. It was a cost-saving shortcut: one chase, one termination, less pipe to buy. The problem is that lint doesn’t stay in a neat little lane. It migrates. It drifts into the flue, where it mixes with creosote from the fireplace, and that mixture is far more flammable than lint alone. You end up with a fire hazard in a part of the house you never look at.
This is rare in newer Inland Empire subdivisions, where dryer vents run straight out a side wall. It’s common in Bloomington, and it changes how we approach a simple cleaning call. Before we run a brush through any dryer vent here, we ask one question: does this vent terminate outside, or does it share a chase with the fireplace? If it shares a chase, we inspect both. Cleaning the dryer vent without checking the flue is like patching one wall of a two-story house and ignoring the other.
A recent job near Bloomington High School stuck with us. The vent was routed into the original chimney flue of a 1960s ranch home. The homeowner had slow drying times and a musty smell in the laundry room. The camera showed lint packed around a cracked clay tile, with third-degree creosote glaze from the adjacent fireplace coating the flue walls. It was a two-part hazard: a restricted dryer vent and a chimney primed for a fire. We removed the lint, repaired the tile, and rerouted the vent to the exterior with a proper DuraFlex transition. The dryer worked better that same week, and the fireplace was safe to use again.
That’s why we don’t quote anything without looking first. A dryer vent connected to a chimnew flue in Bloomington is not a simple cleaning job, and no legitimate company should treat it like one.
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AfterCommon Dryer Vent Cleaning Problems We See in Bloomington Homes
- Vent connectors crushed or disconnected behind the dryer. Older Bloomington laundry spaces are tight, and when a new dryer is pushed back against the wall, the connector gets pinched or pops loose. Lint blows into the wall cavity, where it sits against framing members. We find this on roughly one in four calls in 92316.
- Dryer vents improperly transitioned into chimney flues without a sealed liner. Lint mixes with creosote, and the flue becomes a hybrid fire risk that standard dryer vent cleaning can’t reach. This requires a camera inspection and usually a re-route to the exterior.
- Bird nests and debris at the exterior termination. Bloomington’s mature trees and open lots means birds find their way into roof and side-wall terminations. A nest blocks airflow, and the dryer overheats. We remove the nest, clean the duct, and install a proper termination cover so it doesn’t happen again.
- Sagging foil or plastic flex duct from the 1970s and 80s. In homes built during the energy-conscious retrofit era, dryer vents were often run with whatever was cheap and available. That material sags between joists, creates low spots where lint collects, and can’t be fully cleaned. We replace it with rigid metal or properly supported semi-rigid duct.
Pricing for Dryer Vent Cleaning in Bloomington, CA
A standard dryer vent cleaning in Bloomington runs $120 to $240. The variation comes down to duct length, accessibility, and what we find once we’re in there. A short, straight run on a single-story home with a side-wall termination is on the lower end. A two-story home where the vent runs through the attic and terminates on the roof will be on the higher end, because it takes longer and requires roof access.
If the vent shares a chimney chase, as it does in many older Bloomington homes, the job changes. We have to inspect the flue as well, and if there’s creosote or lint mixing inside, the scope expands. We don’t quote that work blind. We do the inspection, show you the camera footage, and give you a written price for whatever actually needs to be done.
Camera inspection is included with our cleaning service. If we find a disconnected joint, a crushed pipe, or a bird nest, we’ll show it to you and price the repair before we touch it. No one should approve thousands of dollars of liner work based on a technician’s word. Call (844) 821-5749 for a free estimate, and we’ll tell you honestly what your vent needs.
Serving Bloomington, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Bloomington area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage — if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQ: Dryer Vent Cleaning in Bloomington
No, it’s not safe as originally installed. When a dryer vent shares space with a chimney flue, lint drifts into the flue and mixes with creosote from the fireplace. That creates a fire hazard that standard dryer cleaning doesn’t address, and the solution is usually to reroute the dryer vent to an exterior wall termination. We inspect both the vent and the flue with a camera before recommending anything, so you can see the exact condition before deciding. Call (844) 821-5749 to schedule an inspection.
Most Bloomington households should have the dryer vent cleaned every 12 months, and homes with older duct runs or shared chimney chases may need it more often. The dry, windy conditions here mean more dust in the air, and that dust becomes lint in the vent. If your dryer vent runs through the attic or terminates on the roof, annual cleaning is the bare minimum. We’ll tell you after your first cleaning what interval actually makes sense for your home.
They cannot safely share the same flue. A wood stove needs its own properly sized liner, and a dryer vent needs its own dedicated duct to the exterior. When they share a stack, you’re mixing two very different exhaust streams, and the result is a fire hazard that gets worse every year. If this is the situation in your Bloomington home, we’ll inspect both appliances, show you the risks, and price a proper separation. Call (844) 821-5749 and we’ll explain what’s involved.
The most reliable signs are clothes taking longer than one full cycle to dry, a burning smell while the dryer runs, a musty odor in the laundry room, and a dryer exterior that gets hot to the touch. In Bloomington’s older homes, a disconnected connector behind the dryer can also cause visible lint around the base of the machine. Any of these means the vent is restricted, and the longer it goes, the harder the dryer works and the hotter everything gets. We can usually get to Bloomington homes within a few business days.
Yes, always. Every dryer vent cleaning in Bloomington includes a camera inspection, and if we find a crushed connector, a disconnected joint, accumulated lint in a wall cavity, or a vent sharing a chimney flue, you’ll see it live on our monitor. We don’t ask homeowners to approve repairs based on a verbal description. You see the footage, we explain what it means, and you decide. If a company won’t show you the camera evidence, find a different company.
Contact Mantel Chimney Sweep in Bloomington
If your dryer is running long, running hot, or your laundry room smells like warm lint, don’t wait until the vent becomes an emergency. We serve all of Bloomington, from the older neighborhoods near Bloomington High School to the homes along Valley Boulevard and the rural properties near the Jurupa Hills. Call (844) 821-5749 for a free estimate, or to schedule a camera inspection of your dryer vent. We’ll tell you what we see, and we’ll fix it right.
Written by Roland Vega, Owner at Mantel Chimney Sweep, serving Bloomington and the Inland Empire with professional dryer vent and chimney services.