Thread Number: 46091
Keep dryer door closed VS often cleaning lint trap |
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Post# 673592 , Reply# 1   4/17/2013 at 21:48 (3,997 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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I empty the filter on fuzzy things like towels. If the thing gets really clogged it won't dry much at all, so a fistful of lint is slowing it down.
Think about how a dryer works. Not like an oven. It constantly puts heat in which leaves in the form of vaporized water out the exhaust. So no, opening the door doesn't 'let the heat out'. |
Post# 673595 , Reply# 2   4/17/2013 at 21:53 (3,997 days old) by georgect (Fairfield, CT)   |   | |
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Clothes dryer manufactures NEVER suggest cleaning the lint trap every 15-20 minutes.
They say to clean the lint trap after each load. Once is sufficient for a load. The lint screens are designed to handle at least one loads worth of lint. Maybe and that's a big maybe, I would check the lint filter if I was drying something with a ton of lint like a bunch of terry cloth bathrobes or brand new very fluffy towels (but I would probably forget and just empty it when it was done). |
Post# 673603 , Reply# 3   4/17/2013 at 22:22 (3,997 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY)   |   | |
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Post# 673608 , Reply# 4   4/17/2013 at 22:34 (3,997 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas)   |   | |
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Post# 673616 , Reply# 5   4/17/2013 at 23:11 (3,997 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 673641 , Reply# 6   4/18/2013 at 00:55 (3,997 days old) by kb0nes (Burnsville, MN)   |   | |
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I find both loads can lint enough to occlude the screen to slow the drying. My Cabrio dryer has a top mount lint filter so its simple to pull it for cleaning (or just inspection) while the cycle runs. Personally I'd never buy a dryer that doesn't have a top access lint screen.
As for heat loss when opening the door that is a non-issue. I'd think more about cycling the igniter an extra time. |
Post# 673803 , Reply# 7   4/18/2013 at 18:57 (3,996 days old) by kenmore70 (New York)   |   | |
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A self cleaning lint filter for a dryer would be a nice invention!!! |
Post# 673804 , Reply# 8   4/18/2013 at 19:06 (3,996 days old) by DirectDriveDave ()   |   | |
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Laundromats really take the cake. When I go there now and then to wash large comforters, so many seem to be oblivious to them, I have removed screens that are covered with a HUGE layer of lint. |
Post# 673836 , Reply# 9   4/18/2013 at 23:00 (3,996 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Cleans the dryer lint screens daily as part of end of the day clean-up. It is really annoying because the attendents start about an hour or so before the place actually closes. So there are usually customers around folding laundry, putting it in and taking it out of dryers when down comes wafts of lint and dust from the screens being cleaned. Oh and the worse is yet to come as La Senora begins to sweep the floors away from the door TOWARDS the back of the place. Since the dryers and folding areas are located there anyone's clean laundry (not to mention themselves) is covered in dust from the floor sweepings.
Have asked why not just invest in a good shop/commercial type vacuum but apparently that mouse trap is firmly closed. Suppose this is an inprovement from earlier incarnations of this laundromat. Back then it seemed like every other week the fire department was there putting out dryer fires. |
Post# 673860 , Reply# 10   4/19/2013 at 03:18 (3,996 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY)   |   | |
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In 1995/96 (about a year) I worked at a Texaco in Knoxville TN which had a grill AND a laundromat! There were two of us working together and I worked 3 to 11 and at the end we rotated on who would clean the laundromat and who would clean the grill area. I HATED cleaning the laundromat. I remember taking all of those grills off the dryer and using a broom to clean the lint...........NASTY and HAIRY too. I could always tell if a hairy guy did his laundry because it was all over the lint screen.
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Post# 674187 , Reply# 12   4/20/2013 at 14:52 (3,994 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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if all dryers had the so called self clean filters, that would be killer....
as DADoeS mentioned, he has the F&P Top load dryer, as if that wasn't a great machine in the first place of Top loading, but also to have the filter sweep clean with every revolution, it's like a fresh filter thru the whole cycle.... kinda funny in translation...a washer's self clean filter does it all by itself, flushing all the lint down the drain with no user contact....yet there is still the manual, pull out the screen and clean it yourself, filter of a dryer....not exactly self cleaning is it?...well, at least its not soggy!.....lol |
Post# 674191 , Reply# 13   4/20/2013 at 15:16 (3,994 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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