Another FREE SERVICE of St. Louis House
Painting
If you are good about making sure you remove the dryer
lint before every load of laundry, you may never have realized the importance
of cleaning the hose from your dryer to the exterior vent.
It could be that when you pull the filter out there's
not too much stuck to it. Besides, as long as you make sure it's clean all the
time, the whole rest of the system must be clean too, right? Wrong!
The truth is there is a lot of lint that you don't see
both in your dryer and in the line leading from the dryer out of your home.
While you can't see it, that doesn't mean it's not a problem. Just like the
lint you can see, this hidden lint can pile up and slow down the drying
process, costing you more time and money per load, and even worse... be a fire
threat.
Want a little more proof? Grab a flashlight and go outside
where your dryer vent comes out of the house. If you haven't looked for this
before it may take a little while to find it, but eventually you will see a
small device coming out of the house that is blowing out hot air while your
dryer is at work.
Take the top off the vent and look inside with a
flashlight. Do you see a little lint and dust hanging out on the edges? Do you
see a lot? Maybe you see some lint piling up on the outside of the vent. All
these can be signs of bigger problems.
What you need to keep in mind is that the dryer vent is
the end of the line for the hot air coming out of your dryer. By the time
the air, and any lint it is carrying, has gotten here, it has been traveling
all the way from your dryer to this point. The amount of lint and dust that hot
air has dropped off along the way is likely more than you are seeing at the end
of the road.
As a FREE SERVICE to
our residential painting customers when painting their laundry room we will
clean this line. We have even
found diamond stud earrings caught in the pipe.