OK, here is a test to try at home. Please report back to me with the results!

[Ed SW Fla]

Here is a tip that may help you save electricity, avoid a potential fire, and increase the life of your clothes dryer.

All automatic clothes dryers have a lint filter. Most of us do a good job in removing lint build up from the filter screen every time we start another load of clothing to dry.

The next time you dry some clothes, pull out the lint filter, clean out the lint, then go to a sink and run a little hot water in the filter. Don

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Craig in Alabama]

you are a Rocket Scientist

 

[Ed SW Fla]

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[deathwind1]

I will tell you how we here in the Pacific Northwest for years have saved Electricity--By just wearing the same clothes year around and then going outside and standing in the Rain for the length of time U southerners spend washing your Duds--Body Heat then dries US and our Clothes!--------REALLY Most people did use clothes lines here when I was growing up but had no choice but to dry clothes in side the house a lot during the Rainy season!----It is True it does rain a Lot here but we do not get many floods cause the rainfall is very Low per day--Oregon Mist is a good description for it!

 

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[JSinkAZ]

Took a shop-vac to the slot where the lint filter goes.... found more treasure there than I EVER did with my metal detector... but don't tell Elson that... he'll be raiding the coin laundries.

 

[Tom in Victoria]

Good point though about the lint screen; read of it in the last year.

Seriously though, dryers are a dangerous appliance.We have all probably used the accordian vinyl type vent ducting to vent any distance to the outside. I have removed runs of up to 30 feet that were literally sagging from the lint load ! Dangerous,no kidding; one good spark or some kind of friction and the lint would likely just go "poof",vinyl would melt and you may get to meet the members of your local fire department!

Building code in at least my province (B.C.) requires that ducting be of metal pipe.An accordian flex metal type is sold here but I'm not sure it is Kosher. Strangely, the vinyl stuff is still sold here too; for the diehards I guess !

 

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