On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:26:24 +0000, Paul Mc Cann
wrote:

This junctions are great fluff catchers so you would want to be able
to monitor them.

Can do that from outside by removing the plastic vent housing - it
pops off so no big deal there.

The tenant in this case has been using the tumble dryer unvented for
quite some time (some years I think). When they pulled it out to have
new flooring installed underneath the fluff was seriously built up all
around the back of the tumble dryer! This tumble dryer was shoe-horned
into the tight gap with hardly any air to breathe around it, hence why
I was asked to knock a big hole in the wall to allow the fluff and
heat to get outside.

I once had a fire in such a situation. Luckily the fluff didn't burst
into flames but just smouldered.

Nasty. I can just imagine it though.

PoP