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Thread Number: 61427
/ Tag: Modern Dryers
Dryer Fire Patterns? |
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| Post# 840913 , Reply# 6 9/12/2015 at 20:40 (3,141 days old) by iej (.... ) | ||
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Smooth walled short ducts make a big difference! | ||
Post# 840937 , Reply# 7 9/12/2015 at 22:32 (3,141 days old) by askolover  (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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My GE
is 16 years old. About a month ago I replaced the front and rear bearings and belt. I had to take the drum out to get to the rear bearing support. I was surprised at how little lint was actually inside the dryer cabinet. Now mind you, my dryer is GAS, and the burner is on the right side bottom...but the rear of the dryer is the same minus the heating coils. I did find lint behind the heat diffuser plate on the back of the drum, but really not very much for 16 years. The inside vent passages get vacuumed regularly, but to do anything else requires opening the top and removing the front completely. I could see an electric one catching fire if it were overloaded.
I have never had an issue with performance....just dried a mixed load of colors that included a few pairs of denim shorts...one hour on LOW heat. I have dried sheets on high heat before in 20 minutes. I'll keep renewing my dryer until it's no longer renewable because it's pretty much all mechanical (reliable). My duct is brand new rigid and 13 feet long. Standing outside I can hear the airflow coming out. My mother's first dryer was a 1966 WP...it caught fire! We never really cared for WP's design though...GE and newer Maytags at least had the heat come in the back and the clothes tumbled more THROUGH the heated air. When I'd dry my waterbed comforter in Mom's WP it would be dry on one side, I'd have to take it out and turn it around so it would dry the other side. In her next GE and current MT, and now my GE I don't have to do that. The only time I have a problem is if it balls up and stays damp in the middle (which is rare...king flannel sheets). My first dryer was also a WP ($50 used) that was the same way with comforters. But I will say it's much easier to replace the element on a WP dryer! My grandmother had a early 60's GE dryer...she used that thing for 45 years without any problem whatsoever! | ||
| Post# 840944 , Reply# 8 9/12/2015 at 22:56 (3,141 days old) by Johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
This is odd to hear. I've had mostly GE dryers in my apartments. 1 was electric. It dried great!
Thermostat sensor dryers. The electric does take a little longer than gas, but that's always the case it seems. I rather like the GE design. Surprised to hear they're fire prone. I've been doing a lot of appliance research the past few months. I must say, my big take-away from all the reviews I've read......is that people are terribly negligent with their appliances and abuse the crap out of them. I'd be willing to bet that many of those fires happened in filthy dryers with negligent owners. | ||
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Post# 840963 , Reply# 9 9/13/2015 at 05:37 (3,141 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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Post# 840966 , Reply# 10 9/13/2015 at 06:09 (3,141 days old) by retro-man (- boston,ma) |
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So just out of curiosity, do gas dryers have less fires than electric ones? Jon | ||
| Post# 841010 , Reply# 12 9/13/2015 at 11:29 (3,140 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY) | ||
Well My Duet dryer
collects like crazy.....I once took the bottom panel off and I could not believe how much lint was all over the place....So I clean this every couple of years or so with a vacuum....This is not a top mounted lint screen like the regular WP dryers. We had a GE dryer once (actually it was hotpoint made by GE) but no fire..
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