Clean out your dryer vents

[u/Kitso_258]

If your living situation allows you to have your own dedicated washer/dryer within your home-space, clean out your dryer vent. Unscrew the lint trap holder and vaccuum out the stuff stuck to the sides. You can get a lint duct brush and mostly clean the ducts yourself, or if it's bad/out of reach, hire a professional. This is especially important if you've got pets - my dryer was FULL of pet hair.

Why is this important? Several reasons:

1, new appliances are in short supply right now. Take care of the one you've got.
2, new appliances cost money, see above.
3, it'll increase the efficiency of your dryer and use less electricity.

But the most important reason is that this is a HUGE fire risk. Lint = tinder, and all it takes is one spark in the wrong place to cause the lint to combust. And by spark, as everyone else has pointed out, it could just be the dryer heating element doing it's thing.

Little things like this... make our lives just a little bit better and safer.

Edit: Didn't expect this to blow up. If you wish to save the lint for future fire starter, then save away. My household produces SO MUCH of the crap that I don't ever worry about saving it for the long term...

[u/TitanActual]

I seriously don't understand how these people survive! When we bought our house the basement was very heavy wet feeling in the air and we noticed during our tours that the previous lady always had clothes out on a drying rack bit she insisted the dryer was operational. Turns out the entire 12' of vent was completely full of wet lint and it wasn't attached to the exterior vent either. It was only

[u/mulchroom → u/TitanActual]

it was only what? are u ok?

[u/cplforlife → u/mulchroom]

Reddit Sniper got him. RIP.

r/redditsniper

[u/Littux → u/cplforlife]

Thankful that this sub doesn't have archiving