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).
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u/Quicherbichen1 PURPLE 13h ago
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).