Prevent Dryer Ventilation Fires

Dryer fabric sheets cause house fires. These sheets build up "sticky lint" in the dryer ventilation. Lint is very flammable, and when it builds up in the exhaust vent, lint trap, and drum casing, it can catch on fire. According to U.S. Fire Departments - between 2010 and 2014 there were 5,000 home fires caused by dryer lint build up. A dryer works by pushing out hot, moist air so your clothes can dry. If your dryer vent becomes blocked by lint, the trapped moisture takes more heat energy to evaporate. Here are a few things to check:

• It takes longer to dry clothes
• Clothing is hot to the touch
• You smell something burning 
• The vent hood doesn’t open

Dryer vent equipment cleans out the ventilation from both directions. The long reaching arm rotates inside the ventilation ducting scraping the sides to clean out lint.