Bill_D
 
Nice day for a mow!!
Location: Chicago
Joined: Dec 5, 2002
Points: 920
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Important reminder: Clean your laundry vent hose.
Original Message Jun 24, 2005 7:58 pm |
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O.K., I'm usually very good about this doing it once a year, but w/ more kids now, and the wife doin more laundry than ever, I almost had a disaster tonight. Luckily happened while I was up and we all smelled it rite away.(Sometimes my wife has loads drying well into the non waking hours), No more of that. Well to make a long story short exhaust pipe somehow got kinked a little bit, we think when exterminator was here last month and moved the dryer back further than it was, and a clog developed very rapidly. Like I said I change this thing once a year, now it will be every 6 months like I change the smoke alarm batteries(Which I do at the time changes, 2X a year). We have 2 dryers now, one is brand new and suppoosedly has an auto shut-off if exhaust has restriction, BUT the one that clogged tonight was the older model and it did catch fire, luckily really no damage, just a really scary situation, that could of easily been catastrophic. Sooooo, just a reminder go clean out, and replace your flex hose now, if you haven't recently. |
Highwind
Despite the high cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular.
Joined: Jan 12, 2004
Points: 985
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Re: Important reminder: Clean your laundry vent hose.
Reply #7 Jun 26, 2005 6:27 am |
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I bought a fancy solar activated, passive energy clothes dryer for my wife...........nothing is too good for her........otherwise known as a clothesline. I even bought her the better clothes pins!
LOL. I should have tried that sales pitch on my wife to get her to use one.
As to lint build up, I seem to find a little lint ball in my belly button every night, but I suppose that was too much info for most of you.............
Frank D.
Frank,
You are the man
I think you just hit on the cause of spontaneous human combustion. The build up of belly button lint tightly packed in that recess when combined with natural body oils would produce the same conditions as a pile of oily rags, and ... whoosh ...instant fire.
Honda stable: HS 724 snowblower; HRS216 lawnmower; BF2 UWWW; 5 HP, 2200 psi/2.9 GPM pressure washer. Electric: BV2500 B&D Leaf Hog/snow duster; old 12" Weedeater.
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