Baskets keep filling whether the machine cooperates or not. We get Tri-Cities dryers back on duty — usually in one visit, always with the price agreed first.
from $207 · diagnostic + labor included, parts separate · $25 coupon on completion
A household notices a broken dryer within hours — towels draped over doors, a laundromat run penciled into an already full Saturday. That urgency shapes how we handle dryer calls from our Pasco shop: the vans keep heating elements, thermal fuses, belts and idler pulleys for the common platforms on board, so the visit that finds the problem is very often the visit that ends it.
The money part stays simple on purpose. Work starts from $207 with the diagnostic and the labor already inside that number; the part is priced separately on the same written quote, and the CLARA25 coupon takes $25 off the finished job. Before a single panel comes off you'll see the whole arithmetic — and it will still be the arithmetic when the dryer is tumbling again.
$25 OFFANY COMPLETED REPAIR
Say "CLARA25" when you book, or use the form — it's attached automatically.
Comes off the repair total. Doesn't apply to the $91 diagnostic (which already goes toward the repair). One per visit, not stackable.
Not most loads — every load. A clean screen is the difference between a 45-minute cycle and a 90-minute one, and it's the cheapest fire prevention sold anywhere.
Give the vent a birthday
Once a year, pull the machine out and check the duct behind it. Around here, homes with roof-cap vents clog fastest — if the outside flap barely moves while the dryer runs, book a clearing before parts start dying.
Listen for the squeal early
A dryer squeals for weeks before it quits. That sound is a worn idler pulley on notice — repaired at the cheap end of the range if you call while it's still just a noise.
Clara at work
Real visits, real machines.
Behind the visit
What a dryer visit looks like from your side of it
The first ten minutes
The van parks where you point, a floor runner goes down between the door and the laundry area, and the questions are short: when it started, what changed, what you've tried. Then the machine gets pulled, the meter comes out, and the talking stops for a bit. You're welcome to watch — most people do, and we narrate if you're curious. By minute ten there's usually a suspect, and by minute twenty there's a written number on the pad.
Why we ask to run a full cycle before leaving
A dryer that heats for ninety seconds on the bench can still quit at minute forty under a real load, which is why the visit ends with your towels, not our stopwatch. We start a genuine cycle, stay through the temperature climb, and check the exhaust at the outside wall. It adds minutes to the visit and subtracts callbacks from the month — a trade we'll take every time.
The lint conversation we have in almost every house
Wherever the failure sat, the cabinet interior tells the airflow story, and we show it to you before closing up — the felt of lint on the element housing, the state of the duct behind the machine. Not to alarm anyone; because a homeowner who has seen their own vent's insides empties the screen differently forever after. It's the cheapest longevity program in the appliance world.
If the news is bad
Sometimes the verdict is a seized motor in a fifteen-year-old builder machine, and the honest move is a funeral, not a repair. You'll hear the number, the machine's realistic remaining life, and what we'd buy in its place — then the decision is entirely yours, with the $91 covering everything you just learned. No one here earns commission on talking you into anything.
Stackables, closets, and other tight quarters
Plenty of Tri-Cities laundry lives in a closet barely wider than the machines, and we arrive equipped for it — straps for safe unstacking, sliders that protect the flooring, and the patience the job actually takes. The quote covers the access work from the start, so a tight closet never becomes a surprise line on the bill. Mention the setup when booking and the schedule breathes accordingly.
The parts that ride along every day
Heating elements and thermal fuses for the common electric platforms, igniter kits for the gas ones, belts and idler sets sized for the big-selling models of the last fifteen years — the dryer shelf on each van is stocked from what the Tri-Cities actually owns, not from a wholesaler's dream sheet. It's the unglamorous reason so many dryer visits end with a working machine instead of a follow-up appointment.
Asked often
Dryer answers, Clara style
What does 'from $207' actually include?
The diagnostic and the labor — the visit, the testing, the wrench time and the retest all live inside it. The part itself is listed separately on the same written quote at its real cost, and the $25 coupon comes off the completed total. Whatever your dryer needs, the whole arithmetic goes on paper before work starts, and it doesn't move after.
My dryer heats but everything takes two cycles. Is that a repair?
It's a visit, and often a cheap one — that pattern usually means airflow, not a failed part. We measure at the exhaust, find where the lint has settled in, and clear it. If the dryer itself checks healthy, you've spent the diagnostic and gained a machine that dries like it's new again.
Do you work on stacked units and laundry closets?
All the time — closets off kitchen hallways are half of Pasco's newer housing stock. We bring what's needed to unstack and restack safely, and the quote covers that handling from the start. Just mention the setup when you book so the schedule gives us room.
Gas dryer — same service?
Same service, plus the gas-side care it deserves: igniters and valve coils measured rather than guessed at, and every connection we touch checked with leak solution before we close up. If anything on the house side of the shutoff needs attention, we'll say so — that part belongs to a plumber, and honest boundaries are part of the job.
