Jon Danniken wrote:
---MIKE--- wrote:
I just got a new top load washing machine. My old one had a lint
trap on top of the pedestal but the new one does not. The people at
Lowes tell me that washing machines have not had lint traps for at
least ten years. I am concerned because I have cats and the lint
trap on my old machine used to collect lots of cat hair. Where will
all this hair go now?

In the lint screen in the dryer, in the dryer body, and all
throughout the dryer ducting.

The "problem" with washing machine lint traps is that the consumers
didn't clean them out regularly, and they were a source of mold. My
machine has one, and I couldn't imagine purchasing a machine without
one (I do keep it cleaned regularly, of course).


Even with one, there's plenty enough lint going down the drain to periodically
plug up the drain on my rental house. An added filter "sock" on the outlet hose
of the washer will catch a lot more.