If You Don’t Clean Dryer Vent, You Are In Trouble
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
There are plenty of thinkgs you need to think about when it comes to clothes dryer maintenance. Though it is likely something you think about the least, it could be the one cause you the biggest problem. Failure to maintain the dryer vent is the number one cause of clothes dryer related fires.
It is hard to understand the importance of ventilation maintenance if you do not understand the whole system in work.
While the clothes is being dried, the lint is being removed and blown outside through the ventilation ducts. The lint trap in your clothes dryer will capture about 60 percent of that lint. Before you dry each load and start to remove the lint, this is the part of the clothes dryer you should pull out. But that’s only 60 percent. But what will happen to the other forty percent?
The part of the lint that managed to pass the trap is going outside, all the way through the duct system that comes out of your clothes dryer. The duct work is that weird looking hose that seems to come out of the wall, but it actually is a hose that comes out of your dryer and it is going outside. While you may not see the rest of the path, it leads to the outside of your house, and to the dryer vent. Because the lin will get heavy and sticky, it won’t make it through the line in entirety, which means it will stuck on the walls. And this is an issue that needs to be taken care of from time to time.
The final stop for lint, on the way out of your dryer, is the dryer vent. And exactly this is that flapper vent top that is at the end of the duct. And this is the final destination for all that hot and steamy air. Lint will continue to build up, of course, which is a big fire hazard and a big obstacle for your clothes dryer to do its work properly.
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