Clean Your Dryer Vent

[Chili Palmer]

The wife was complaining that the dryer is on the fritz, it’s taking forever to dry the clothes. So I got out my dryer vent cleaner jobby - it’s got a small brush that screws onto a 3’ flexible shaft that attaches to a drill there’s 8 shafts that attach to each other. I tuned the dryer on and started inserting the brush and adding shafts. I did the length of the garage but nothing more than a few handfuls of lint, but there’s still not much air coming out of the vent. Then I pulled the vent hose off and started giving the vent hose a colonoscopy - there must have been about ¾ of a paper shopping bag full of damp lint stuck in that 6 foot section of vent hose. Now the dryer does a full load in about 20 minutes instead of almost 2 hours. I guess I should clean it every couple of years instead of every 15.

 

[azsunfun]

The wife was complaining that the dryer is on the fritz, it’s taking forever to dry the clothes. So I got out my dryer vent cleaner jobby - it’s got a small brush that screws onto a 3’ flexible shaft that attaches to a drill there’s 8 shafts that attach to each other. I tuned the dryer on and started inserting the brush and adding shafts. I did the length of the garage but nothing more than a few handfuls of lint, but there’s still not much air coming out of the vent. Then I pulled the vent hose off and started giving the vent hose a colonoscopy - there must have been about ¾ of a paper shopping bag full of damp lint stuck in that 6 foot section of vent hose. Now the dryer does a full load in about 20 minutes instead of almost 2 hours. I guess I should clean it every couple of years instead of every 15.

if you dont you can burn out thermal overloads and have no drying at all.

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

Yea....thermal fuse usually busts it's nut first as an indicator. $10 part, couple screws. Couple hundred bucks for a service call if you're mechanically handicapped.

 

[PlumLoco]

Dryer vent lint is HIGHLY flammable. Check that thing often.

 

[WhatExit?]

Yea....thermal fuse usually busts it's nut first as an indicator. $10 part, couple screws. Couple hundred bucks for a service call if you're mechanically handicapped.

hey Hoots, post up your How To YouTube video so I know how it’s done

 

[RitcheyRch]

Our dryer has a warning alarm when the vent needs to be cleaned. I've never had the alarm go off and clean it out every 6 months to be safe.

 

[Ultra...Good]

Get rid of the hose and hard pipe as much as possible. Tape the seams, do not use screws as lint will stick to that. Have never had an issue with lint builing up in lines.

 

[Cobalt232]

We have about a 15 foot run of dryer vent. A few years ago, my wife was complaining about how long it was taking to dry. I really didn't pay attention until the dryer started smoldering one day. I had to pull out a bunch of drywall to get to the dryer pipe and it was full of wet lint making backpressure into the dryer. Learned my lesson. We ended up giving that washer / dryer set to some friends and it is still going strong.

 

[DLC]

I use my leaf blower to clean out the vent making sure if flows!

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

hey Hoots, post up your How To YouTube video so I know how it’s done

I have a newer washer and dryer....no need.

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

hey Hoots, post up your How To YouTube video so I know how it’s done

And by the way.....even YOU could handle this one, it's that easy.

 

[The Prisoner]

My sister bought a brand new dryer a couple of months ago. Didn’t work well. The appliance company found her line was clogged. Hers vents to her roof. Mine is like a foot through a wall. Easy to clean for me.

 

[2Driver]

House is 50 and weve been in it 25 of those . I had it done last year and got less than 1/2 a hand full of lint.

 

[The Prisoner]

I have found coins in the seal in the front load washer and filter. Enough for maybe 4-5 pieces of five cent gum.

 

[RichL]

Dryer vent lint is HIGHLY flammable. Check that thing often.

^^This^^

Get rid of the hose and hard pipe as much as possible. Tape the seams, do not use screws as lint will stick to that. Have never had an issue with lint builing up in lines.

Used to preach this to my clients all the time. Even went so far as to provide the free labor to pull the corrugated pipe and install new galvanized hard pipe and cap if they paid for the materials on more than one job. Didn't want a fire on my watch.

 

[The Prisoner]

^^This^^




Used to preach this to my clients all the time. Even went so far as to provide the free labor to pull the corrugated pipe and install new galvanized hard pipe and cap if they paid for the materials on more than one job. Didn't want a fire on my watch.

I do my own but sometimes they are a bitch. It would be nice if some dryers had a longer exhaust pipe.

 

[Uncle Dave]

Yup - do it or pay to have it done religiously. I paid a " vent guy" to come do it and it was cheap the results were dramatic.

When the wife was a groomer it was every year because of pet hair.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

My house when I moved in, this was after I brushed out as far as the tool would reach... An entire 4 foot section was still clogged.

 

[Willie B]

…Errr…Ahh… not too sure mine has ever been cleaned in decades???…
… cleaned the Filter in the dryer… then turned the dryer on …went outside to where the dryer exhaust is… The exhaust pressure was pretty substantial…Dunno???…

 

[The Prisoner]

I grew up seeing this all the time. I used play with my moms clothes pins as a kid. Your sister gets pissed when you clamp her nose! Don’t remember last time I saw those!

 

[Uncle Dave]

I use my leaf blower to clean out the vent making sure if flows!

From the inside to out I hope.

 

[CLdrinker]

Dryer vent lint is HIGHLY flammable. Check that thing often.

I keep it In A zip lock for starting fires

 

[TCHB]

I clean my dryer vent, refrigerator coils and wine cooler coils every six months.

 

[WhatExit?]

I clean my dryer vent, refrigerator coils and wine cooler coils every six months.

Sounds like a good business idea for a retiree

 

[TCHB]

Hire about 20 people to get started and then turn it into a franchise. No I am too busy.

 

[petie6464]

Dumped out this from one of my apartments, how nice dryer vent hose is full of Cig. Butts. .

So they most likely went through the washer. .

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

Dumped out this from one of my apartments, how nice dryer vent hose is full of Cig. Butts. .

So they most likely went through the washer. .



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Don’t worry, the filters were cleaning the water and the air in the drier

 

[Happy Smitty]

The wife was complaining that the dryer is on the fritz, it’s taking forever to dry the clothes. So I got out my dryer vent cleaner jobby - it’s got a small brush that screws onto a 3’ flexible shaft that attaches to a drill there’s 8 shafts that attach to each other. I tuned the dryer on and started inserting the brush and adding shafts. I did the length of the garage but nothing more than a few handfuls of lint, but there’s still not much air coming out of the vent. Then I pulled the vent hose off and started giving the vent hose a colonoscopy - there must have been about ¾ of a paper shopping bag full of damp lint stuck in that 6 foot section of vent hose. Now the dryer does a full load in about 20 minutes instead of almost 2 hours. I guess I should clean it every couple of years instead of every 15.

Sounds pretty cool to me. I'm gonna clean my dryer vent tomorrow.

 

[Hardly Satisfied]

I bought one of those kits to clean my vent. I had so much lint I now clean it once a year

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Run the drill attachment through then blow the rest out with the leaf blower. Works great.