Dryer Vent Inspection in Kansas City, MO

What a dryer vent inspection actually involves

We start at the dryer. It gets pulled out, the transition hose comes off the appliance collar, and a camera goes in from there. Then outside to the termination. Airflow at the hood gets checked with the dryer running. Exposed runs get walked and handled joint by joint. In a basement that means following the joist bay to the rim joist. Second-floor laundry and roof jacks need the ladder.

The camera is hunting named failures, not just dust. Foil flex crushed behind the dryer in a tight closet. Duct-tape joints let go from heat cycling. Lint packed solid in the 90-degree elbow at the base of a vertical run. Bird and squirrel nesting at gable and roof terminations in spring. Screened or louvered covers that reload with lint fast. Flaps frozen shut by condensation in January.

Interior condo and townhome closets get scoped as far as the camera reaches. Crawlspace runs under 1950s slab-and-crawl ranches sometimes turn up a disconnected section dumping into the dirt.

Check these yourself first. Lint on the outside wall. A hot, humid laundry room. Two and three cycles for one load. Scorched or musty odor. A thermal limit shutdown. Any of those means restriction, and an inspection tells you where.