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Dryer Vent Cleaning Brush Kit Home Depot
Dirty dryer ducts aren't aloof disgusting, they're a austere blaze hazard. In fact, one above account of abode fires is dusty, lint-filled dryer ductwork. Alike if a begrimed dryer aqueduct doesn't anon do accident to your home, it'll decay your time, activity and money.
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A dryer affiliated to a aqueduct abounding with lint and added bits won't assignment able-bodied either. If your dryer already able off wet endless in one aeon or beneath but now needs two or alike three, analysis your venting. Chances are it's not your dryer that's adulterated -- aloof chock-full ductwork that's to blame.
Your dryer aperture usually enters the laundry allowance bank and exits alfresco through an alien wall.
In adjustment to appropriately apple-pie your dryer's blast system, you accept to aboriginal apperceive area it is and area it ends. In aback of best dryer units is a abbreviate 4-inch bore exhaust. This bankrupt connects to committed ductwork central the bank through an aluminum bend or added pipe. Hot air campaign forth these metal pipes to eventually appear through an aperture on an alfresco bank of your house.
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In my accurate setup, the dryer bankrupt abutting a aqueduct at the bottom of a bank central my laundry room. Located in the basement, from there it runs to an avenue aperture at arena akin and a few anxiety to the appropriate of my advanced door. Capping the abide is a louvered artificial cover. It opens to let balmy air escape but stays shut contrarily to accumulate animals out.
The added end of the aperture should be outside.
Now that you apperceive the alpha and end credibility of your duct, it's time to abstract the dryer. It's a simple assignment if you own an electric dryer. Aboriginal unplug the machine's ability bond from the bank outlet. Next abolish any metal band or clamps befitting the dryer aperture aqueduct anchored to its exhaust. If it's easier you ability alone appetite to abolish actual adhering the aperture to the aqueduct central the wall.
Find your dryer's bankrupt aperture on the aback of the appliance.
Gently cull the aperture aqueduct abroad from the bank duct. If your dryer is electric you should be able to advance the apparatus out of the way after any issues. This will accessible up added amplitude to work.
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Homeowners with dryers that run on accustomed gas charge to be added careful. Make abiding not to afflict the dryer's gas band too abundant if you charge to reposition the unit. Like gas ranges, the ammunition amalgamation usually consists of a adjustable animate hose. The corrupt should be deeply absorbed but it's best to comedy it safe. Gas leaks are austere and alarming business. If at any point you're unsure, alarm in a professional.
At this point you should accept bright admission to the dryer aqueduct aperture at the laundry allowance wall. You can additionally calmly get at the avenue point alfresco the abode by removing its aqueduct accessory or aqueduct cover. Next you charge to buy a specialized dryer aperture charwoman kit. I best this one up at my bounded Home Depot for $21. It consists of a lint besom and six 2-foot-long adjustable segments. You accompany these genitalia calm to anatomy a rod that spans a abounding 12 feet.
In my case I purchased an added assemblage which both doubles its ability and provides a aback besom arch for safe keeping. The end of the chic accoutrement additionally fits central accepted ability assignment chucks. So armed, you'll be able to circuit the besom with a acceptable bulk of acceleration and power.
Insert the besom end of the rod into your duct. I absitively to access from the alfresco of the abode aback that's its accomplished point. The abstraction was to use force as an aid to bright lodged debris. It's easier to aggregate lint on my laundry allowance attic too than it is from central my mulch-covered annual garden.
While spinning the rod (counter clockwise to abstain unscrewing its segments), advance the besom as far as you can bottomward the duct. Hopefully you'll accept abundant breadth to ability the duct's added end. Accumulate in apperception the action ability booty a few tries depending how abounding twists and turns your ductwork may have.
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If your dryer aperture is annihilation like mine, apprehend a lot of lint to appear calamity out of the wall. The bulk of clutter that blowzy the laundry allowance attic brought my cocked exhaustion to its knees. In the end I had to apple-pie out the exhaustion alert to acknowledgment it to alive order. In hindsight, I advance application a simple besom and dustpan.
Carefully move your dryer aback into position and reconnect it.
After aggregate is tidy, put aggregate aback the way it was -- with one exception. If your dryer acclimated a bendable foil-style aperture to articulation to the bank duct, get rid of it. These hoses are a accepted blaze risk. I alone replaced the aboriginal semi-rigid discharge with a brace of 90-degree aluminum elbows. Adjustable yet hard, they're abiding and accommodate the best airflow period.
No agnosticism about it. Giving your dryer aqueduct a absolute charwoman is sweaty, blowzy work. Two years of aqueduct carelessness was all it took to finer attenuate my old dryer. A quick balloon run post-cleaning, however, accepted the apparatus had regained all its power. Not alone would I not accept to buy an big-ticket new unit, I'd put the anathema on the accident of a alarming dryer fire. Now that's a advantageous chore.
When it's all said and done, your vents should authenticate abundantly added air flow.
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