A Public Service Post Clothes Dryers
Now this is not an arty post, or a post of great spiritual enlightenment, but none the less, it is an important post. I want everyone to be safe from this potential fire hazard.
Like the large percentage of the population I use my clothes dryer, sometimes daily. I am very fanatical about making sure the lint trap is empty each and every time I use the dryer. When I was small one of our friend’s houses burnt to the ground, resulting in the death of their youngest daughter because of a clothes dryer fire.
Over the past couple of months, I have been gently reminding the hubby that our dryer wasn’t drying very well any more. Sometimes I would have to dry a load two to three times just to get them dry.
Well yesterday I caught the order of deceased mouse coming from my laundry room. Not a pleasant order, so I ask the hubby to help me find the tiny little carcass that was causing such a stink. It turned out to be behind the clothes dryer. We moved the dryer out to remove the body, and Stephen decided that while the dryer was pulled out he would take a peek at every thing.
I think he was doing this to shut me up about the dryer…lol…any how he checked out the tubing and vent pipes, all clear, and hooked up correctly, with no build up of the dreaded lint. Now he was baffled because he was sure our out pipe was clogged, and that was what was causing the long drying times. So now he is concerned we might need a new dryer. So he decides to take the back panel off the dryer, and check out the motor. It is a darn good thing he did.
The area encasing the motor was filled with extra fine lint, so much so that you could see patterns in the lint from the running of the dryer motor. Yet what was more frightening than that was the scorched and burnt sections of this lint. Our dryer the one I have religiously cared for, was a fire waiting to happen.
We got the motor area cleaned out of all t hat “hidden from our views lint“, and put the dryer back together, and it runs like a top once again. Smooth, quiet, and the clothes dry in one cycle, and our dryer in no longer a fire hazard.
So every one please note: A clean lint trap doesn’t always mean your dryer is safe from being a fire hazard. There are spaces in the back of your clothes dryer, that over time will build up this fine coating of lint, to the point that it will effect performance of your dryer, and if not cleaned out of your dryer, this lint will either destroy your dryer, so that you need to by a new one, or it will simply catch fire and ruin your dryer, and maybe even burn up your home.
So every one please take the time to have good cleaning maintenance done on your clothes inner working parts, or perform this maintenance your self. Most dryers have a back panel that can be unscrewed and removed, so that you can clean out the lint that builds up. For your safety, for better drying performance, and less energy consumption.
Wishing all a very safe bright and magical day!
Like the large percentage of the population I use my clothes dryer, sometimes daily. I am very fanatical about making sure the lint trap is empty each and every time I use the dryer. When I was small one of our friend’s houses burnt to the ground, resulting in the death of their youngest daughter because of a clothes dryer fire.
Over the past couple of months, I have been gently reminding the hubby that our dryer wasn’t drying very well any more. Sometimes I would have to dry a load two to three times just to get them dry.
Well yesterday I caught the order of deceased mouse coming from my laundry room. Not a pleasant order, so I ask the hubby to help me find the tiny little carcass that was causing such a stink. It turned out to be behind the clothes dryer. We moved the dryer out to remove the body, and Stephen decided that while the dryer was pulled out he would take a peek at every thing.
I think he was doing this to shut me up about the dryer…lol…any how he checked out the tubing and vent pipes, all clear, and hooked up correctly, with no build up of the dreaded lint. Now he was baffled because he was sure our out pipe was clogged, and that was what was causing the long drying times. So now he is concerned we might need a new dryer. So he decides to take the back panel off the dryer, and check out the motor. It is a darn good thing he did.
The area encasing the motor was filled with extra fine lint, so much so that you could see patterns in the lint from the running of the dryer motor. Yet what was more frightening than that was the scorched and burnt sections of this lint. Our dryer the one I have religiously cared for, was a fire waiting to happen.
We got the motor area cleaned out of all t hat “hidden from our views lint“, and put the dryer back together, and it runs like a top once again. Smooth, quiet, and the clothes dry in one cycle, and our dryer in no longer a fire hazard.
So every one please note: A clean lint trap doesn’t always mean your dryer is safe from being a fire hazard. There are spaces in the back of your clothes dryer, that over time will build up this fine coating of lint, to the point that it will effect performance of your dryer, and if not cleaned out of your dryer, this lint will either destroy your dryer, so that you need to by a new one, or it will simply catch fire and ruin your dryer, and maybe even burn up your home.
So every one please take the time to have good cleaning maintenance done on your clothes inner working parts, or perform this maintenance your self. Most dryers have a back panel that can be unscrewed and removed, so that you can clean out the lint that builds up. For your safety, for better drying performance, and less energy consumption.
Wishing all a very safe bright and magical day!