Most people meet this service backwards. They book us for the dryer vent, we're kneeling in the laundry room, and they say — half embarrassed — "while you're here, is there anything you can do about the washer?" There usually is. The black-ringed door seal on a front-load washer is one of the most fixable problems in the house, it has a flat price, and the smartest way to buy it is the way those customers stumble into it: on the same visit as the dryer vent.
This is the honest breakdown — what the cleaning includes, what it costs in Brooklyn and the rest of NYC, and when a standalone visit does or doesn't make sense.
What the visit actually includes
Our washer gasket cleaning is a focused, single-appliance job, usually about 30 minutes. The technician pulls the rubber boot back and works the entire circumference — the visible face, the folds, and the channel at the bottom where water and lint sit after every cycle.
The treatment itself is a four-step process we developed on the job: three cleaning solutions we mix in-house, worked into every fold and dried down between coats, then a mold-stain remover gel over whatever staining is left. We finish by leaving a machine-cleaning tablet to run through an empty hot cycle, and we walk you through the 20-second daily habit that keeps the growth from starting over. (If you want the deeper mechanics of why the mold shows up in the first place, we wrote up why washer gasket mold keeps coming back.)
Scope, stated plainly: we clean the washer's door gasket — the visible rubber seal. We don't open up the machine, and we don't replace gaskets; if we find torn or perished rubber that genuinely needs a swap, we say so on the spot and point you to an appliance repair technician we trust.
What it costs
$199.99, flat. That's the price in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, on its own or with a dryer vent cleaning on the same visit.
Want the detergent drawer done in the same visit? That's $29.99 more — everything in the gasket clean, plus the drawer and the housing it slides into, where water sits after every wash. Either way the visit includes the washer's drain filter.
The one extra is Manhattan: a flat $50 travel charge for a Manhattan address, so the gasket visit is $249.99 there.
No hourly meter, no on-site surprises. The price you book is the price you pay.
Why it pairs with the dryer vent visit
The two machines share a wall and a failure mode: they both hide their problem where you can't see it. The washer packs moisture, lint, and detergent film into a rubber fold; the dryer packs lint into a duct run — and lint is the leading cause of home dryer fires. If the laundry room smells musty or the towels never smell quite clean, odds are decent both machines are contributing.
Bundling is better on every axis:
- One appointment window instead of two. The gasket adds roughly half an hour to a dryer visit.
- One trip for both. The gasket rides along on the dryer visit — no second appointment.
- The room gets fixed as a system. A dryer that vents poorly dumps warm, humid air back into the laundry room — which keeps everything in it damper, including the gasket we just cleaned. Doing both is how the smell actually leaves.
If you're pricing the dryer side of the visit, our NYC dryer vent cleaning cost guide has every package and neighborhood rate in one place. And when you book a dryer cleaning online, the washer gasket shows up as a one-tap add-on on the review step — that's the whole trick.
The honest fine print
One thing we tell every customer before we start, so nobody hears it after the invoice: removing the black stains isn't guaranteed. The mold itself is — we don't call the job done until the growth is out of the folds. But stains that have soaked deep into the rubber fade rather than disappear, especially on machines that lived with the problem for years. What you get is a clean, treated, fresh-smelling seal, sometimes with a faint shadow where the worst of it sat. We'd rather lose a booking to that sentence than earn one without it.
Frequently asked questions
Can I add it to a dryer vent appointment I already have? Yes — call or text us at (718) 541-5567 and we'll add it to the same visit. Booking fresh, just pick your dryer cleaning at our booking page and add the gasket when it's offered.
Is it really only 30 minutes? For the gasket itself, usually yes. It's a focused job on one part — the time goes into working every fold properly, not into disassembling the machine.
Do you service apartments and condos? Yes. Front-loaders in apartment laundry closets are half of what we see, and the stackable configuration doesn't change the gasket work.
My machine is an LG / Samsung / Bosch — does brand matter? No. Every watertight front-loader door grows mold the same way. The treatment is identical across brands.
Where can I read more before booking? The full service scope lives on our washer gasket cleaning page, and we keep a set of plain-English guides — DIY instructions included — at washergasketmold.com/guides.
Book it
Vent Pro NYC is a family-owned, father-and-son operation out of Brooklyn. Book online — with a dryer vent cleaning or on its own — or call or text (718) 541-5567. We're open Sunday through Thursday 9am to 8pm and Friday until 3pm.
Vent Pro NYC
Family-owned. Brooklyn-based. Fully insured.
A focused, roughly 30-minute visit: full gasket inspection and deep clean, mold and mildew removal, detergent residue and lint out of the folds, and an antimicrobial treatment. Across Brooklyn and NYC.
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