Electric Dryer safty

[mullman]

Originally Posted by Radio Ron

Electric cloths dryers are the single most dangerous appliance in your house.

Yep, that is why ours in on the front porch with the coon dogs.


/good advice though!/

[Ultrarunner]

Originally Posted by littlelou

as a SIL of a firefighter I hear all the horror stories. The simplest thing that most people forget is to clean out the lint vent on the front/top of the dryer. That lint will catch fire too!!

Exactly what I was going to add. I have seen several problems with lint blocked dryer vents and everyone was attributed to operator error.

My tenant had a fire in the laundry room of a single family home I rent. She had two daughters, under age 10 that were responsible for doing the laundry. Somewhere along the line the pull-out lint trap was discarded and over time the line become plugged.

[texdav]

I have seen quite a few gas dryers that basiclly blewup. Had a friend that was knocked back against a wall.