Pro-active with appliances: dryer cleaning!

[flagdaytwins]

I love this board...so many good ideas.

Yesterday my neighbor told me he had to replace a part in his drier (ok, I can't recall the name of the part but it has something to do with heat and tumbling...) -- it got filled with lint and animal hair - six years worth.

So yesterday I took off the front of the drier and cleaned all old lint and hair out -- could not believe how much was in there.

I hear you should do this once a year. It is easy and I look at it as making the dryer last longer and fewer repairs, always nice on the budget!

 

[Lorikr65]

Do you actually have to take the dryer apart?? My door's in the front and I don't know that I'd know how to do it. Actually, I save everything so I have the booklet (the dryer is 13 years old) maybe that will help.

 

[grlpwrd]

You might want to take a look at:

http://www.repairclinic.com/0047_8.asp

 

[problemchild718]

my dryer actually caught on fire one day after doing repeated loads of laundry. I didn't realize I had to clean anything but the lint trap. Guess the hair and lint below the regular trap heated up and torched. The dryer was only 4 years old at the time.