A laundry room with a front-load dryer in a Bay Area Victorian with a laundry closet under the stairs, painted wainscoting and old fir floors, seen close on the dryer's front, the room soft behind it.

San Mateo County, San Francisco Bay Area

Dryer repair in Atherton.

Large estates often have more than one laundry: a main room with a full-size pair, a second set near the bedrooms, and sometimes another in a guest house. The dryers used least tend to have the vents nobody has cleaned.

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San Mateo County
Three things about Atherton
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What Atherton does
to a dryer.

Several tracts of contemporary Eichler homes stand in Atherton, most notably in the Lindenwood neighborhood in the northeast of town.

In 2022 the town blocked a proposal to build 131 multifamily housing units after strong criticism.

NOAA's normals for neighboring Redwood City show 19.02 inches of precipitation a year, almost all of it outside summer.

The same Redwood City station averages 18.1 days a year at or above 90 degrees F and a June-through-August high of 80.2 degrees F.

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Gated communities

Large homes in gated communities often have a full laundry room with the dryer on a pedestal, and sometimes a second pair upstairs near the bedrooms. Each dryer has its own vent run, and the upstairs one is usually the longer and harder to clean.

Designed laundry rooms

A designed laundry room often places the dryer where it looks best rather than where the vent is shortest, and a run that crosses a ceiling or turns several times is a common reason a new, high-end dryer takes too long.

A second dryer

A dryer added in a garage, basement or cabana to handle towels and linens works in harsher conditions than the main laundry, and its belt, rollers and thermal fuse tend to need attention sooner.