The dryer did not start out as my mission this week, I had something else in mind altogether. I only decided to post this as my mission after I realized how much of a fire hazard a dryer can be right under our noses! I was appalled at how much lint I found when I cleaned mine, and I know if this could happen to me it could possibly happen to someone else.
My dryer has one of these lint filters in the front when you open the door. I clean it out every time I put in a load of clothes. There are few other things that I am this on the ball about, but I do keep the lint filter cleaned out. When I cleaned it out one day this week, I noticed that underneath the filter I could see a lot of lint down in the dryer wall.
I pulled the dryer out from the wall and checked inside the vent hose at the back. It was almost completely full of lint!! I brushed and vacuumed and cleaned it out, and was totally disgusted with the whole mess.
THIS is what I sucked out of my dryer! Unbelievable! How bad does it have to get to start a fire? I always thought that if I was keeping my lint filter clean, then everything was fine with the dryer. I hope no one else has a lint build-up like mine, but please check just to be on the safe side. A house fire would be a very bad thing!
So I got my handy, dandy long brush tool and started brushing it out. That's when I realized there was really a lot of lint in there.
I pulled the dryer out from the wall and checked inside the vent hose at the back. It was almost completely full of lint!! I brushed and vacuumed and cleaned it out, and was totally disgusted with the whole mess.
So I got my handy, dandy long brush tool and started brushing it out. That's when I realized there was really a lot of lint in there.
I pulled the dryer out from the wall and checked inside the vent hose at the back. It was almost completely full of lint!! I brushed and vacuumed and cleaned it out, and was totally disgusted with the whole mess.
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