Spring is finally here and now is the time of year that everyone is washing their windows, sweeping the house and pulling weeds from the garden. It’s also a great time to take care of essential dryer vent cleaning. As the trusted dryer vent cleaning company for Minneapolis, Dryer Vent Wizard is here to explain why every homeowner should include this important task on their spring cleaning checklist. While working outside the house, you may notice that your dryer vent cap is damaged or covered with lint and other debris. Dryer vent cleaning and repair is necessary if the winter weather or ..read more

As the seasons change, as it warms up outside, and as your fireplace becomes dormant until the fall, it is the perfect time to undergo yearly maintenance to ensure your fireplace, stove, or insert continues to work effectively for years to come! Maintenance is essential for both the longevity of your fireplace and also for its safe operation. It is highly recommended that you contact a licensed gas service provider to conduct maintenance on your fireplace at least once per year. Maintenance on gas components should not be completed by the homeowner as damage to any of the gas components could ..read more

Top 5 Home Maintenance Tasks for Spring   If you only do five home care tasks this spring, here are the ones that we recommend you do that will help you to save energy, maintain safety, and avoid problems this summer. FURNACE, FIREPLACE AND WATER HEATER ANNUAL SERVICE   This task involves scheduling a trained service professional to do a thorough inspection, cleaning, and adjustment of your furnace and water heater. There are two important reasons for having this done each year: Safety It helps maintain the energy efficiency of these appliances. This is a task that is best left to a train ..read more

As winter finally moves on along and spring arrives once again, it’s the season when many people start getting active.  One great active move you can make every spring is taking a few minutes to look over your chimney and fireplace. Winters are hard on these structures, particularly if they’ve been used a lot in the cold season just ending, and especially if you’re using them to burn wood.  A chimney and fireplace inspection include some tasks virtually any homeowner can perform, as well as a few that are best left to the professionals. 320-252-6242     Here’s a checklist to follow 1. Chimney ..read more

Dryer lint is the most combustible material in your home, making regular and thorough cleaning of the dryer vent and ducting system critical. Lint buildup occurs in many different areas of the dryer itself and the venting system. This buildup results in the unit having to work harder and longer to appropriately perform its function, decreasing energy efficiency and increasing the risk of fire. In addition to lint, some dryer vents (especially those that are damaged or uncovered) allow opportunities for animal entry, and with that the potential for nesting debris, increasing the fire hazard. R ..read more

How Often Do You Need to Clean Your Chimney? Why Should I get my Chimney Cleaned? The job of the chimney sweep is to remove soot, blockages and built-up creosote from your chimney liner, firebox, smoke chamber and damper. This cleaning will help create a safer operation of your system during the heating system. It take only a small accumulation of creosote glazing to create the potential for a chimney fire. Creosote is a highly flammable substance that builds up inside your chimney or liner as a result of burning wood. The rate of accumulation can be higher if you practice poor burning prac ..read more

Roof The Roof of your home is the structure and materials that form the top of your home, and which protects your home from rain, snow, sun, etc. Roof styles include angled (called ‘pitched’ roofs) or flat. And a roof can be made of materials such as: composite or asphalt shingles; slate shingles; wood shakes; tile; rubber rolled roofing materials; metal; thatching; and fabric. In addition to the materials that cover the surface, your Roof also includes caulking and metal strips called ‘flashing’ that are used to keep things that penetrate your Roof (such as chimneys, sky lights, vent pipes ..read more

Top 5 Tasks for September If you only do five home care tasks in September, here are the ones that we recommend you do that will help you to save energy, maintain safety, and avoid problems this winter. FURNACE AND WATER HEATER ANNUAL SERVICE This task involves scheduling a trained service professional to do a thorough inspection, cleaning and adjustment of your furnace and water heater. There are two important reasons for having this done each year: Safety Helps maintain the energy efficiency of these appliances. This is a task that is best left to a trained professional. However, here is ..read more

Clothes Dryer All Clothes Dryers use electricity to rotate the drum that the clothes ride in and for operating the controls that allow you to set cycle times, the amount of drying to be done, etc. But an ‘electric’ Clothes Dryer is a model that uses electricity as the source of heat for drying the clothes as they are tumbling in the rotating drum. If your Clothes Dryer has natural gas or propane piping connected to it, then it is a ‘gas’ Clothes Dryer. A gas Clothes Dryer burns natural gas or propane in a heating element, which produces the heat that dries the clothes as they are tumbling in ..read more

Best Way to Waterproof a Chimney Asking what’s the best way to waterproof a chimney or what are the best waterproofing products are both understandable enough questions, but they’re also too broad for a simple answer. Best way to waterproof what kind of chimney? Are we waterproofing a vertical wall or the breast of the brickwork? There are brick, concrete block, stucco and stone chimneys and there are different considerations for all of them – meaning you might use different products on different types of chimneys. Let’s peel this back like an onion. Choosing the Right Waterproofing Product ..read more