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Thread Number: 33341
Major League Dryer Fire |
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| Post# 501799 3/6/2011 at 13:09 (4,793 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA) | ||
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People in Winter Haven are saying "good riddance" right about now... CLICK HERE TO GO TO cornutt's LINK | ||
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Post# 502076 , Reply# 2 3/7/2011 at 01:18 (4,792 days old) by sudsmaster  (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Duh, look at all the bends in the dryer's exhaust venting - and that's just the part we can see.
It's also a big commercial unit that had a reputation for running hot. Excuse me? Red flag red flag. Probably also had a weak blower and coarse lint screen, and clogged its ductwork with lint which then caught fire. Not necessarily any indication of the safety of modern residential gas dryers. However: if your dryer seems to run hot and takes longer than you remember for it to dry a load, then take that as a warning and clean out the ductwork before using it any more. And that goes for gas or electric - either one can cause a fire if its exhaust if blocked. | ||
| Post# 502236 , Reply# 3 3/7/2011 at 17:24 (4,791 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
Stupidity
NEVER VENT A DRYER UP A ROOF!!!! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!
The lint builds up and any kind of static electricity will cause the worst fires a house,apartment,ship or store can have. When i sold the Disney ship, Magic, 20 Maytag Neptune stacked units. The captain insisted they be placed below deck instead of where I recommended they go explaining to him that the previous Asko sets they had were vent less,condenser types that didn't need to be vented out.Three years after the units were installed,there was a severe fire onboard during a cruse from Florida to the Bahamas.It ruined the entire deck level and the firemarshal blamed it on lint that had built up from years of use without any maintanance on the vents. | ||
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Post# 502358 , Reply# 4 3/8/2011 at 07:48 (4,791 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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Stupid is as stupid does........
there was a guy here in town, about a year ago he had a dryer fire, fire dept put it out, they left, he re-plugged it in to finish drying his clothes, it caught fire again, fire dept returned, yanked the dryer out of the house, and took the axe to it... My brother owned the house this guy was renting, insurance covered the damage from the fire and smoke....the tenant was upset because they would not replace his dryer with a new one! where do they come from? | ||
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Post# 502520 , Reply# 5 3/8/2011 at 19:40 (4,790 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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GAS DRYERS AND HIGHER INSURANCE COSTS | ||
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Post# 502697 , Reply# 7 3/9/2011 at 10:37 (4,790 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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GAS DRYERS AND HIGHER INSURANCE COSTS | ||
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