Dryer Vent Inspection

You cannot manage what you don't measure, and a dryer vent is the most overlooked unmeasured system in the average home. Texas Service Experts built its name on inspection-grade rigor — Level-1/2/3 chimney evaluations done by the book — and we bring that same instrument-driven discipline to the duct behind your dryer. A TSE dryer vent inspection isn't a glance and a guess. It's a camera scope, an airflow measurement, a code audit, and a written report you can act on, sell on, or file with an insurer — and because the same crew also handles your chimney and ducts, it's a check that rides along with the rest of your home's safety visit instead of a separate appointment.

Why inspect a vent you can't see into? Because the failures that matter are invisible from the laundry room. A run that's quietly 60% blocked still dries clothes — slowly, hot, and dangerously. A section disconnected inside a wall vents into the cavity and breeds mold for months before anyone notices. A foil transition or an over-length run that violates code passes unnoticed until a real-estate inspector flags it or a lint fire makes it everyone's problem. Measurement turns all of that from a surprise into a managed line item.

Here's what the inspection actually includes. The full duct run gets borescoped — transition, in-wall path, every elbow, and the exterior or roof termination — to locate crushed sections, disconnects, nesting, and packed lint, with the camera image captured for your file. We take an anemometer or static-pressure reading on the exhaust to put hard numbers on airflow and the percentage of blockage, so "it seems slow" becomes measurable. We audit the run against IRC M1502 — total developed length, elbow count, material, and termination clearance — and document where it's compliant and where it isn't. And for gas dryers, we verify the exhaust is clear and not back-drafting combustion byproducts, a safety check most vent companies don't even offer.

The deliverable is what separates a real inspection from a sales pitch. You receive a written report with the airflow figures, annotated borescope images, a code-compliance summary, and a prioritized recommendation — clean, repair, reroute, or all-clear — with no pressure to buy anything. If the vent is fine, we tell you it's fine and put it in writing. A crew with a whole house worth of work doesn't need to manufacture a problem on the dryer vent.

The full inspection scope lives in this hub: standard inspection and airflow testing; the IRC M1502 length/transition compliance audit a buyer, seller, or HOA needs for a transaction; the dryer fire-hazard safety assessment for a clogged or over-long run; concealed-duct locating; and the gas-dryer exhaust/CO safety check. It's the right first call after you've just bought a home, when dry times have crept up, when you smell mildew near the laundry, or when an annual maintenance plan should be driven by data instead of a calendar.

Because it's one crew with one standard, the inspection method and report format are consistent every time, and they dovetail with the chimney and duct work the same team already does for you. That's precisely why homeowners, property managers, and real-estate professionals lean on a single whole-home company rather than juggling a separate inspector for every system. The value is in the rigor and the paper trail — and in not having to chase down who looked at what.