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I hear ya, my tinker time is the three dirt bikes to keep up with. Fuck that mower
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Lanx
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looks like i'll be joining the american standard crew, and from walmart too?
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Costco has the 1.25 HP slim version for those of you that want to grind body parts with your disposer. All for $99, just $20 more.
Lanx
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ok, .75 more power? i can't resist
that doesn't ship to me, this one does tho
Koushirou
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Suddenly got a weird itch to have my dryer vent cleaned out. I always clean the trap after every dryer use, but haven't cleaned it since moving here about 4 years ago. As a retard, is this something I can just do myself or should I just pay to have some company do it? House fires scare the shit out of me. If I do it myself, is there someway I can possibly make shit worse or fuck things up catastrophically?
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Where is the vent and what is it made of (as far as you can tell)? Most have a flap/cover you can pop off and get any lint trapped out. No you are not being crazy. When my house was hit directly by lightning , the overhead dryer vent was vinly/plastic, the lint caught fire and melted everything. That was the only remotely fire related thing that happened.
Lanx
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even if you are ocd meticulous and clean out the trap after every use, it will eventually still fall into the machine and accumulate
so get one of these vacuum attachments and stick it in the dryer and suck it up
Holikme 2 Pieces Dryer Vent Cleaner Kit, Dryer Lint Vacuum Attachment and Flexible Dryer Lint Brush, Dryer Vent Vacuum Hose Attachment,Blue
then your dryer hose you can either open the flap and blow it up w/ a leaf blower (get ready to catch all that lint) or get a hose cleaning snake
Holikme 35Feet Dryer Vent Cleaner Kit - Lint Remover,Fireplace Chimney Brushes,Replacement Parts,Duct Cleaning,Flexible Lint Brush with Drill Attachment×2,Use with or Without a Power Drill
(never saw the purpose of using the drill tbh)
also comes as an all in one kit
your hose situation really depends, my current house the dryer hose is right next to the outside vent wall, but my previous house, the hose went from the first floor to the base ment and travelled a good 20ft (it was actually broken when i got the house, there was an ungodly amount in the walls.
as long as the inside of your dryer (where the drum is actually spinning) is clean, you should be good, having opened up mine, it's crazy that the heating element is practically unshielded and inches away from a bad dust ball.
but of course your hose should be clear too, you don't want mold/co2/bad air fucking up your space
Koushirou
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Ordered the kit, but in the meantime pulled the dryer out, ran it while disconnected from the vent and it's blowing out the back just fine. Vacuumed inside the lint trap as deep as I could and in through the vent in the back as much as possible. Took my leaf blower and very gently pulsed it in through the back of the dyer to see if I could get any more loose lint back up into the drum so I could vacuum it up again. Was a couple of tufts that came up at most. Vacuumed all in the dryer again and then took the leaf blower with a bag sealed to the end of it and blew out the vent to the outside. I left my phone recording outside so I could try to listen to see if it was muffled at all, but no, it was definitely loud enough that I probably pissed off some neighbors. Whoops. My vent immediately takes a 90 degree angle up into the attic from the wall with the dryer and then another turn in there somewhere back horizontally to go outside. I'd guess it's probably 20-30ft long?
I'm also wondering if I've purely freaked myself out just by fucking up dryer settings. I had bought a 100% cotton blouse because I need it for a choir concert this weekend. Threw it in a light wash and dried it. For some reason my brain thought cottons needed the delicate/low dryer settings, so that's what I ran the thing on, and after two cycles it was still wet and hot in the drum. Of course reading now, you're apparently supposed to put cottons on the cotton setting on the dryer which is higher heat. I may just be fucking stupid and got myself worked up over nothing.
I'm also wondering if I've purely freaked myself out just by fucking up dryer settings. I had bought a 100% cotton blouse because I need it for a choir concert this weekend. Threw it in a light wash and dried it. For some reason my brain thought cottons needed the delicate/low dryer settings, so that's what I ran the thing on, and after two cycles it was still wet and hot in the drum. Of course reading now, you're apparently supposed to put cottons on the cotton setting on the dryer which is higher heat. I may just be fucking stupid and got myself worked up over nothing.
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I've lived alone since I was 18 and was 35 when I got married. Most weeks I do the laundry now. I've always done laundry like what I'm going to describe below:
Always Cold/Cold water
I presort my laundry , I sort it by what will fit in the washer vs what will not *
Dryer mid range setting - use a dryer sheet
The end.
I've never had a pink sock, or blue underwear or whatever.
*If it's new: wash it by itself in the smallest load setting to get proper coverage w/o wasting water
That dryer thing, you're overthinking it. Lint gets trapped in the outside filter/vent & in the interior filter. Clean it after each dryer session and you are golden.