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Formerly Adam & Sam Brothers RepairEdmonds · Esperance · Woodway
Edmonds dryer repair from the Bowl to Five Corners
In Edmonds the dryer usually lives on a slope: a daylight lower floor in the Bowl, a garage laundry in Perrinville, a condo closet up the hill. We repair both gas and electric models, twelve to fifteen minutes west along SR 104.
- Our drive
- 12–15 minutes west along Edmonds Way (SR 104)
- Gas share
- About half of homes heat with gas; Esperance about two-thirds
- Peak build
- 42% of homes built 1960–79, many on hillsides
- $85 diagnosticBecomes part of the repair price when you say yes. If you pass on the repair, that visit is all you pay.
- Up to $18 offAny repair requested through the online form. The diagnostic itself is never reduced.
- $10 offA second appliance’s diagnostic when we check it during the same trip.
Edmonds climbs straight up from the ferry dock. The Bowl, Seaview and the slopes above Brackett's Landing filled with hillside subdivisions in the 1950s and 1960s, the largest annexations came in the early 1960s, and the southern neighborhoods joined between 1995 and 1997. On that terrain a house often has its main floor at street level and a daylight floor below, and the laundry tends to end up downstairs, with the dryer duct leaving through the downhill wall toward the view. That arrangement works fine until the hood, sitting in the wind off Puget Sound, starts to corrode or stick.
Gas is the other Edmonds theme. Half of the homes in the city heat with it, roughly two-thirds in the Esperance enclave and more than four in five in neighboring Woodway, so gas dryers are a regular part of our work here. We carry igniters and valve coils along with heating elements, fuses and rollers, and you receive a written price before any repair starts. The drive is short too: SR 104 brings us from Mountlake Terrace to most Edmonds addresses in twelve to fifteen minutes off-peak.
How Edmonds dryers let you know something is off
Outside flap stuck, white crust on the metal
- Likely cause
- Salt air corroding a thin aluminum hood near the water
- What we do
- Fit a heavier hood and clean the last section of duct
Gas dryer lights, then goes out within minutes
- Likely cause
- Valve coils fading as they warm up
- What we do
- Test the coils hot and replace them as a matched set
Long drying times in a lower-floor laundry
- Likely cause
- Duct climbing through a daylight wall with sagging joints
- What we do
- Measure airflow, clean, re-support and re-tape the run
Electric dryer in a hilltop condo blows cool
- Likely cause
- Open element or a high-limit tripped by a long duct to the roof
- What we do
- Replace the failed part and check the building exhaust path
Burning-dust smell on the first load of the day
- Likely cause
- Lint built up around the burner or element housing
- What we do
- Open the cabinet and clean the heater area and base
Drum stops while the motor keeps humming
- Likely cause
- Broken drive belt
- What we do
- Fit a new belt and inspect the idler pulley
Hillsides, sea air and gas lines across Edmonds
Near the water, the dryer's weak point is outside the house. Along the downtown waterfront, around the Edmonds Marsh and up through Seaview and Meadowdale, damp salt air pits thin aluminum vent hoods and stiffens the hinge on the flap. Some flaps freeze half-open, which lets wind push cold, wet air back down the duct; others seize shut and choke the exhaust. Wind-driven rain also finds its way into a hood that faces the Sound, and a few cups of water sitting in a low elbow will mat lint into a plug. We replace corroded hoods with heavier ones, set the duct with a slight fall toward the outside and check that the flap swings open and drops shut on its own before we leave.
Up the hill the setting changes. Five Corners, Westgate, Firdale, Sherwood and the Highway 99 corridor are mostly 1960s and 1970s ramblers and split-levels, with laundry off the garage or on a lower floor, plus apartment blocks along 99 and hilltop condos built around 2007 and 2008. In those condos the dryer duct often runs up to a roof cap, which can clog with lint where no resident can see it. We clean from the dryer as far as we can reach, measure flow, and tell you or the association plainly if the roof end needs attention.
Esperance and Woodway lean heavily on gas, and many Esperance homes date from the 1950s. On older gas dryers there we look over the flexible connector as part of the visit; an aging one is worth replacing. Anyone who notices a gas smell by the laundry should get out of the house before doing anything else and ring PSE on 1-888-225-5773, or 911, once outside. Electricity, by the way, comes from Snohomish County PUD throughout Edmonds, and an electric dryer that heats on one setting but not another is usually a dryer fault rather than a supply problem.
Edmonds dryer prices: the starting points
Dryer repair in Edmonds begins at $235. Gas models here tend to need an igniter or a pair of valve coils, lint-packed vents call for cleaning out to the hood end, and electric dryers mostly come down to heating elements. That is not a quote: it marks where our prices open, and your exact figure comes on the written estimate that follows the $85 diagnostic, before anything is replaced. Approve that figure and the diagnostic becomes part of it instead of a separate line. A worn hood we replace during a vent cleaning is listed on the same estimate, so you see the whole job before saying yes.
- Dryer vent cleaningfrom $235
- Dryer thermal fuse or thermostatfrom $235
- Electric dryer heating elementfrom $245
- Dryer belt, rollers and idlerfrom $245
- Gas dryer igniter or valve coilsfrom $255
- Dryer control boardfrom $265
- Diagnostic visit$85, included in the repair
- Second appliance, same visit$10 off its diagnostic
Starting prices for the north Seattle area, 2026. The $85 diagnostic is included in any repair you approve, and the exact price is in the written estimate before work starts.
Should an Edmonds dryer be repaired or replaced?
Salt air is hard on vent hoods but rarely on the dryer itself, which sits indoors and ages at the normal pace. So the decision usually comes down to the machine's condition and the effort of moving it. In hillside homes with the laundry on a lower floor reached by outside steps or a narrow stair, swapping a dryer is more work than most people expect, which favors repairing anything with a sound drum and motor. Gas dryers in Esperance and Woodway homes often have years left once an igniter or coil set is replaced. We lean toward replacement when the drum is rusting, the motor and a drum bearing are failing together, or a newer electronic dryer needs a main board on top of another major part. Whatever the case, the written estimate shows the repair cost so you can set it beside the price of a new machine.
Common questions
Does living near the water affect my dryer?
Mostly through the vent. Salt air corrodes thin hoods and sticks their flaps, and wind off the Sound can push rain into the duct. The dryer indoors ages normally. When we visit a waterfront or Seaview home, we check the hood and the last few feet of duct as part of any dryer call.
Do you cover Esperance and Woodway?
Yes. Esperance, the unincorporated pocket surrounded by Edmonds, and the Town of Woodway are both well inside our area, about twelve to fifteen minutes from our shop. Many homes in both run gas dryers, and we carry the gas parts for them along with the electric ones.
My condo's dryer vent goes to the roof. Can you clean it?
We clean from the dryer through every section reachable from inside your unit and measure the airflow coming out. If the blockage is at a roof cap we can't safely access, we tell you exactly where it is so the association or building maintenance can clear it from above. That way nobody pays twice for guessing.
What can I check before calling about a dryer that won't heat?
Two things are safe and worth a minute: clean the lint screen, and look at the breaker panel to make sure both halves of the dryer's double breaker are fully on. A half-tripped breaker often lets the drum turn with no heat. If neither fixes it, give us a call and we'll take it from there.
How soon can someone come to Edmonds?
If your call or online booking reaches us before the morning is out, a technician can typically be at an Edmonds door that same day, any day from Monday to Saturday; the run from Mountlake Terrace takes a quarter hour or less outside rush periods. If you're near the ferry terminal, mention it when booking so we can plan around ferry traffic.
Talk to Adam & Sam
Phone (425) 570-9520, ideally with the model number from the sticker inside the door at hand, or schedule online to cut up to $18 from the repair bill. Say yes to the repair and the $85 diagnostic is already inside the price.
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Schedule a repair
Request a visit from Adam & Sam
Send the basics and we call you back with an arrival window, most days the same morning.
- $85 diagnostic Becomes part of the repair price when you say yes. If you pass on the repair, that visit is all you pay.
- Up to $18 off Any repair requested through the online form. The diagnostic itself is never reduced.
- $10 off A second appliance’s diagnostic when we check it during the same trip.