edpaffjr.comFor once I feel like a repair man! Last night we did something that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, clean out the exhaust hose from the clothes dryer. Shortly after moving we realized that the hose was not connected to the back of the dryer after the humidity in the basement increased with the use of the dryer. So we reconnected the hose only to find out that the dryer would now take forever to dry the clothes. And to top it off, there was now a distinct burning smell coming from the dryer. I concluded that the exhaust hose itself was clogged with lint so we immediately disconnected it again resulting in humidity and lint thrown throughout the basement.
That was until last night. Since the hose was already disconnected from the back of the dryer all I needed to do was disconnect it from the pipe to the outside of the house. Then we took the flexible hose outside for a thorough cleaning. We used one of those dusters with a telescoping handle to remove piles of lint from the hose. I think we filled an entire grocery bag with lint! Once we had it clean enough we hooked it back up to the pipe and to the back of the dryer. We haven’t turned the dryer on yet, but hopefully Kim will do that tonight while I’m playing tennis. I hope we fixed the problem.
Is that a hint? And I believe that tool is called a Tickler, they used them on the Wiggles.
Perhaps. Though the first hint would be the overflowing laundry basket. :)
I’m not sure on the tool being called a Tickler. I tried Googling that and would discourage everyone else from doing so.
For anyone that cares, everything seems to be working great so far. Next up, finishing the deck project we started months ago.