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There's also things that control the heat elements on gas and electric dryers. We had them replaced over the years on electric dryers. We had gas for a little while. Dried better but I couldn't get used to seeing the light of a flame under the dryer at night so we went back to electric.
I called two repair companies and both said it is most likely to be lint in the air duct given the age of the dryer and no cleaning of it in our 8 years here. So different vendor does that and will be out Wednesday. Hopefully this fixes it.
Now it's 8 years? What other appliances are you using? Are you taking care of them?
If you don't know how, there are plenty tutorials on YouTube. Most of maintenance stuff you could and should do yourself.
Don't use that dryer till it's cleaned out. You could watch them and then do it yourself next times....or at least call them regularly if you use them.
Don't use that dryer till it's cleaned out. You could watch them and then do it yourself next times....or at least call them regularly if you use them.
Will do. On the surface does not sound too difficult to do but going to watch his approach. In Houston, where we lived before, the vent was on an outside wall and was easy to clear of lint etc. In this house, it goes up a wall to the roof which is steep as can be. Wife was doing it in Houston without my involvement but this one and her health now let this fall through the crack
Will do. On the surface does not sound too difficult to do but going to watch his approach. In Houston, where we lived before, the vent was on an outside wall and was easy to clear of lint etc. In this house, it goes up a wall to the roof which is steep as can be. Wife was doing it in Houston without my involvement but this one and her health now let this fall through the crack
Oh, my goodness. Ask what would be involved in making it simpler than that. Could be well worth it. Keep us updated.
Check to make sure the vent, from dryer to the outdoors, is clear the entire path. We thought our electric dryer was on its last legs, was taking twice as long to dry. Turned out we had birds' nests in the exit to the outdoors, under the deck!
We got someone in to rework our dryer venting since the builder had it going in a pipe up to the roof. My husband cleaned it twice and it had a sharp bend. We found a lot of our lint in the attic. . . Anyway, we had holes drilled in our walls and the pipes went straight to the outside via under the stairs. Why the builder didn't do this design is beyond me.
With that we had two lint traps in the line that we can manually clean. I also use a Swifter duster and swipe it around in the dryer lint trap area - Of course with the tray removed. We also have a dry vent brush that I swish around in the pipe, access through the lint traps.
It's really important to keep your dryer lint free -- Less chance of a house fire.
Clogged vent duct, having it cleaned. It is blowing some lint into attic, replacing roof top housing to attach to the vent line to avoid repeated incidents.
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