Doctor Vent cleans dryer vents across entire apartment communities — every unit, every building, documented with photos and delivered with the coordination that occupied communities require. We work with community managers, regional managers and maintenance supervisors at properties from 50 units to 1,000+.
Built Around How Apartment Communities Actually Work
Cleaning dryer vents in an occupied apartment community is a logistics exercise as much as a technical one. Residents need proper notice. Unit entry needs to follow your company’s protocols. Crews need to be uniformed, background-checked and presentable — they are walking through your community and into your residents’ homes, and they represent your management company while they do it.
Our process: we agree the schedule with your office, provide notice templates for your resident communications, work building by building in a published sequence, handle no-entry units with a documented re-attempt process, and check in with your office daily. Your leasing operation continues undisturbed.
In-Unit and Exterior — The Complete System
A dryer vent is only clean if the entire run is clean. We clean from the dryer connection inside the unit through the full duct length to the exterior termination — wall caps, roof terminations or underground runs. Cleaning only the accessible interior portion, as some vendors do, leaves compacted lint in the mid-run where most blockages form. Our airflow verification at every unit confirms the whole system is clear.
The Turnover Problem
Apartment dryers run harder than any residential appliance — back-to-back loads, shared laundry expectations, residents who never clean the lint screen. A vent that would take 3-4 years to block in a single-family home can block in 12-18 months in a heavily used apartment unit. This is why NFPA 211’s annual inspection requirement matters most in exactly your asset class — and why our annual community-wide programmes are our most requested service.
Per-Unit Pricing That Makes Budgeting Simple
Apartment communities are priced per unit, with the rate determined by termination type (wall, roof or underground), building height and access. Typical community-wide cleanings run $18–35 per unit depending on these factors. One number, multiplied by your unit count — simple to budget, simple to approve, simple to compare year over year. Portfolio rates available for multi-property management companies.
Documentation Your Regional Will Actually Use
Within 48 hours of completion you receive: per-building photo reports (before/after of every unit), a deficiency log with photos of any damaged ducts, non-compliant transitions or failed dampers, an airflow verification summary, and a completion certificate for your compliance file. Everything your regional manager, insurance carrier or fire marshal could ask for.