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do you clean dryer vent?
Hello,
we are noticing that the dryer takes a bit longer than usual, we always clean the lint filter that plugs into the dryer. I was wondering if others clean their dryer vents that lead to the outside of the house? If so, can this be diy or is too hard? We are not handy types. If you have any web links on how to do it, please send them. Thanks! |
do you clean dryer vent?
ap wrote: Hello, we are noticing that the dryer takes a bit longer than usual, we always clean the lint filter that plugs into the dryer. I was wondering if others clean their dryer vents that lead to the outside of the house? If so, can this be diy or is too hard? We are not handy types. If you have any web links on how to do it, please send them. Thanks! In my admittedly limited experience, the lint tends to collect most at the point where it exists the vent to the outside, and you can often just reaching and pull it out with your fingers. It's been that way in the three houses I've lived in, anyway. Can't hurt to check. -- Jennifer |
do you clean dryer vent?
ap wrote: Hello, we are noticing that the dryer takes a bit longer than usual, we always clean the lint filter that plugs into the dryer. I was wondering if others clean their dryer vents that lead to the outside of the house? If so, can this be diy or is too hard? We are not handy types. If you have any web links on how to do it, please send them. Thanks! Cleaning the dryer vent is not hard do a search for "dryer lint trap brush" for the tool. Befor you do that I would try cleaning the lint trap with warm soapy water and a toothbrush. Dryer sheets leave a fill that builds up over time and decreases air flow. That may be your problem http://www.happyslob.com/linttrap.html |
do you clean dryer vent?
"ap" writes:
Hello, we are noticing that the dryer takes a bit longer than usual, we always clean the lint filter that plugs into the dryer. I was wondering if others clean their dryer vents that lead to the outside of the house? If so, can this be diy or is too hard? We are not handy types. If you have any web links on how to do it, please send them. It's easy--you buy a vent cleaning kit - a round brush and a long flexible extendable shaft. Home Depot and Sears have em iirc. Just ask for a dryer vent cleaning kit. If you ask your local fire department who knows where dryer fires make up a frightening spot on the list of house fire causes, they'll tell you to do this maintenance annually, and make sure you don't have any of that plasticized flex crap on your dryer duct. -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ |
do you clean dryer vent?
Lint tends to collect at the elbows of the dryer vent.
The way to test if your dryer vent needs to be cleaned is to disconnect the transition duct (the flexible hose that runs from the back of the dryer to the wall) and replace it with pantyhose. If your drying time decreases, the vent is clogged. Try http://CleanYourOwnDryerVent.com Alisa LeSueur Certified Dryer Exhaust Technician ap wrote: Hello, we are noticing that the dryer takes a bit longer than usual, we always clean the lint filter that plugs into the dryer. I was wondering if others clean their dryer vents that lead to the outside of the house? If so, can this be diy or is too hard? We are not handy types. If you have any web links on how to do it, please send them. Thanks! |
do you clean dryer vent?
On 26 Oct 2006 07:35:53 -0700, "Jennifer" wrote:
ap wrote: Hello, we are noticing that the dryer takes a bit longer than usual, we always clean the lint filter that plugs into the dryer. I was wondering if others clean their dryer vents that lead to the outside of the house? If so, can this be diy or is too hard? We are not handy types. If you have any web links on how to do it, please send them. Thanks! In my admittedly limited experience, the lint tends to collect most at the point where it exists the vent to the outside, and you can often just reaching and pull it out with your fingers. It's been that way in the three houses I've lived in, anyway. Can't hurt to check. There can be worse things than lint too. A few years back, our dryer started taking forever to dry stuff. Finally, I pulled the dryer out, undid the vent line and found a piegon's nest and two (hard boiled) eggs in it! Apparently ithe birds were small enough to fit through the outside opening (no screen or flap, just the sheet metal rain hood) and they liked it...probably flapped out when the dryer started up, the nest appeared to have been partially rebuilt so maybe miore than one set of birds used it. Anyway, after replacing the dryer vent hose, I built a bird excluder out of some heavy-gauge copper wire (basically made a cartwheel shape and folded the "spokes" in as I pushed it down into the vent where it exited the wall). Withe the spokes bent out as spikes and the wire itself we've not had a problem since. The copper wire should last for decades and the "mesh" is more than an inch square so I don't worry much about lint build up. One of these years, I'll pull the vent and check to be safe. This is a condo but whenever I retire to a real house, I'll put a vent with a flap or something built in. Besides the fire danger and wasted energy, I really hate having cooked the pigeon eggs even though I loathe pigeons. Jim P. |
do you clean dryer vent?
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