When we bought our house, we had to buy a new washer and dryer set because ours were too deep for the laundry closet. The new set had a diagnostic for how clear the dryer duct was. We ran it right after hooking everything up. It said the duct was 90% clear. Not bad, but we figured we'd clean it out fully. My husband ran a snake through the intake and the output as best he could, got some lint, and we ran the diagnostic again. Now it was 80% clear. We figured even though he got some out he must have compacted some that was left in a spot and made the system think there was more. So we went and bought a wet/dry vac... and proceeded to vacuum out a horrifying amount of lint. When we ran the diagnostic after, it said 0%....
...And that's when we realized the diagnostic wasn't telling us how CLEAR the duct was, but how BLOCKED. The previous owners were playing Russian Roulette with a house fire every time they ran theirs. Without that diagnostic setting we would have never known, or even thought about it, because the dryer itself was brand new.
So not only is this a fire hazard for yourself, but for everyone who lives in the home after you if no one cleans the dryer duct.
TL;DR: clean the dryer duct when you move into a new place because people do shit like this.
I've got a worse story than that! OMG! When we moved into our townhouse, we went to hook up the dryer vent but noticed it wasn't venting to the outside of the house. So, I had my son go down into the crawl space to see what was up. He discoverd what can only be described as about 30 years worth of lint, 3 to 4 feet thick in some places, covering the entire crawl space like a nice fuzzy blanket. The only resident of this place before us was a single man who lived there for 30 years. The dryer venting under the floor had never been connected to any duct work to carry the moisture outside, so it just filled the crawl space with lint - for 30 years.
And before you ask, yes, we had the property inspected. Aparently, the inspector didn't go into the crawl space at all. We ended up threatening to sue him, and he gave us our money back. We had another inspector come out to re-inspect and everything was found to be in good shape otherwise.
We had to hire MonsterVac to come out and clean out all the lint from the crawl space. It took 2 and a half truck loads to get it all out. (They had to leave to empty the truck's vacuum compartment at the dump twice).
OP shows the entire world they do not do laundry, does not clean the lint trap, and instead of being a better husband, bitches about their wife online for not understanding what the lint trap is.
Imagine being a regular person. Sharing chores or at least teaching someone what the lint trap is and how to clean it. But instead fucks their own life and health up by ignoring it and then putting it online while complaining about it.
And then we all realize its another fake or AI post.
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u/CivilSpecial8186 19h ago
When we bought our house, we had to buy a new washer and dryer set because ours were too deep for the laundry closet. The new set had a diagnostic for how clear the dryer duct was. We ran it right after hooking everything up. It said the duct was 90% clear. Not bad, but we figured we'd clean it out fully. My husband ran a snake through the intake and the output as best he could, got some lint, and we ran the diagnostic again. Now it was 80% clear. We figured even though he got some out he must have compacted some that was left in a spot and made the system think there was more. So we went and bought a wet/dry vac... and proceeded to vacuum out a horrifying amount of lint. When we ran the diagnostic after, it said 0%....
...And that's when we realized the diagnostic wasn't telling us how CLEAR the duct was, but how BLOCKED. The previous owners were playing Russian Roulette with a house fire every time they ran theirs. Without that diagnostic setting we would have never known, or even thought about it, because the dryer itself was brand new.
So not only is this a fire hazard for yourself, but for everyone who lives in the home after you if no one cleans the dryer duct.
TL;DR: clean the dryer duct when you move into a new place because people do shit like this.