Bryan Rocker
12-11-2008, 9:15 PM
Good evening all,
I just wanted to show you what can happen if you do not clean your dryer vent out every now and then. Scenario, I just moved into a 15 year old house. My 9 year old dryer started taking 2 full cycles to dry. After some checks to make sure the dryer was ok, I decided to pull the vent down and look at it. The vent goes straight down through the floor does a 90 degree and runs about 20' to exit out the sill plate. When I pulled it down I was blown away at how badly it looked. These 2 pics do not tell just how bad it was. After some creative thinking and partial disassembly I was able to clean the duct out. There was enough lint in the ducts it filled my 16 gallon shop vac. This was extremely close to a fire....You just don't know how well the previous home owners took care of things......
Bryan
103372
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I just wanted to show you what can happen if you do not clean your dryer vent out every now and then. Scenario, I just moved into a 15 year old house. My 9 year old dryer started taking 2 full cycles to dry. After some checks to make sure the dryer was ok, I decided to pull the vent down and look at it. The vent goes straight down through the floor does a 90 degree and runs about 20' to exit out the sill plate. When I pulled it down I was blown away at how badly it looked. These 2 pics do not tell just how bad it was. After some creative thinking and partial disassembly I was able to clean the duct out. There was enough lint in the ducts it filled my 16 gallon shop vac. This was extremely close to a fire....You just don't know how well the previous home owners took care of things......
Bryan
103372
103371