I’m also wondering “my what” upon hearing about furnace filters. As far as I can tell, my furnace has none. The “filter” is the size of the hole I chuck logs through. If log too big, it no go in.
I saw one of these posts about ten years after buying a washer/dryer. So I checked mine. Absolutely nothing in it. What the hell are these people washing? Vacuum cleaner bags?
Now do the sacrificial anode in your water heater.
I rented a house once that the previous tenant had been living in for about a year with 3 little kids. She had mentioned to me that the dryer worked ok when she moved in but it wasn’t working anymore. It still ran but it didn’t really dry anything.
Not a big deal I thought. Went over to the dryer and took a look at it. First thing I did was pull the filter. It was clogged solid. She didn’t even know it had a lint trap, never mind that you’re supposed to clean it after every single load. Not only was the trap plugged, so was a bunch of the hose and ductwork. I spent several hours taking everything apart and cleaning it out, finally got it all back together, turned the dryer on, and it worked like a champ. Not a single problem for the 7 yrs I lived there.
She was a lady already in her thirties with 5 kids (3 lived with her)… you’d think she would have known how to use a dryer at that point. I’m just happy she never burnt the house down…
My sister in law refuses to clean the dryer filter, and also wants to be the one in charge of the laundry for her and her husband. Whenever I do a load of my clothes, I clean the filter and it’s at least 10 layers of fire hazard
Is that a dead mouse?
And where are those located on the heat pump? Asking for a friend.
I for one am amazed that you could create an entire clothing item from all that lint, if it was connected.
Technology Connections told me about the filter in the bottom of the dishwasher, how cleaning that out can do wonders for the performance. And he said if you hadn’t ever cleaned that he felt sorry for me when I would open it up and find out what’s inside. I was afraid to, so I sold the dishwasher and got a new one. Checked the filter, clean as a whistle, disaster avoided.
Why do you all have dryers tho? Seems a huge hassle to keep track of to avoid not burning down your shit. Doesn’t it also reduce the lifetime of clothing?
I just throw my laundry vaguely on a drying rack and be done with it. Works just fine
If this is what her lint trap looks like, I can’t imagine what the dryer vent looks like.
Btw, get your dryer vents cleaned out! Annually is ideal, but absolutely no more than every 3 years. A blocked dryer vent is a huge fire hazard.
I am that person who gets after my friends if they don’t clean out the lint from their dryer every load of laundry.
I may be a pain in the ass, but my friends aren’t gonna burn alive if I can help it!
I checked mine after a year, there was barely anything there, mostly just water. Did i do it wrong or is that normal?
How dare it not be blocked by an article about Patrick Stewart passing?
