Is Dryer Vent A Reason For Concern?

When we are talking about the clothes dryer maintenance and care, there are a lot of things you have to bear in mind. 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.

In order for you to be able to understand the importance of dryer vent cleaning, you first need to realise how to system works.

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. Well, that is only 60%. What happens to the other 40 percent?

The rest of the lint that made it past the trap is on its way through the duct system leading from your dryer to the outdoors. The duct work is that crinkled-looking hose that comes out of the back of your dryer and leads to a hole in the floor or on the wall. It leads to the outside of your home and right into the dryer ventilation system, although you may not see that path at all. 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. This is something that should be taken care of in an annual cleaning.

The final stop for lint, on the way out of your dryer, is the dryer vent. At the end of the line there is a flapper vent top. At this place the hot and steamy air is finally loose. Lint will slowly build up to the point where it not only becomes a fire hazard for your home, but it prevents your clothes dryer to do the job properly.