Dryers in Johns Island that run cool, slow or noisy — exhaust gauged first, heater blamed last. 14–22 min from Folly Road on the Stono run.
$95 run-through in Johns Island · labor from $207 · part on its own line · rates
In the subdivisions the laundry is on the second floor and the exhaust goes up through the attic to a cap on the roof: a long climb of pipe with a belly in it where lint settles, finishing in a flap the humidity rusts closed. Because every house on the street got the same dryer in the same year, they all hit the same blockage at the same time. The run-through puts a pressure gauge on the exhaust before the heater is blamed, and the card names the duct when the duct is what failed.
The River Road and Bohicket houses are the opposite fleet: older dryers in garages and outbuildings, venting a short distance sideways to a wall hood decades into rusting, on propane rather than natural gas.
An attic run is cleared as far as a brush reaches from the machine end and the roof end, crushed foil is swapped for rigid pipe where the technician can get at it, and the pressure is read again before leaving. A buried section that still chokes goes in the street book for a duct crew, with the numbers a duct crew will want, rather than being guessed at.
A gas dryer that arrived set up for natural gas burns orange on propane and takes its time lighting until the conversion kit is fitted — orifice, pressure and flame checked afterward. If the tank is low, that is a separate line on the card. On the newer streets with a natural-gas main, a gas dryer has its igniter, coils and flame sensor checked in turn, and nothing past the appliance valve.
Same attic run, same install year, same low point full of lint — a duct pattern, not a bad batch of dryers. The reading at each machine proves it and the street book keeps the schedule.
Almost certainly still set up for natural gas. The orifice and pressure get converted and the flame checked afterward; a low tank gets its own line on the card.
The fuse is the symptom; the duct is the cause. The run gets brushed as far as any brush will go and gauged again, and the card says whether an attic stretch still needs a duct contractor.
Home turf: Fort Johnson, Stiles Point, Camp Road, Secessionville, the Folly Road townhome rows.
Open →The end of the office’s own road: raised houses, changeover days, salt on every connector.
Open →Over the Stono: the Maybank subdivisions, the River Road wells, Kiawah River. Kiawah on request.
Open →Phone, ZIP, street, machine, trouble — the office does the rest.