The silent and steady accumulation of miniscule fabric particles which get beyond the lint screen will not only contribute to the underperformance of your dryer but at the same time create fire hazard. Properly cleaning your lint trap after loading the equipment will slow this dreaded process but it still cannot prevent it. When your vent gradually becomes caked with some lint, the airflow to your dryer will decrease. This will not only prevent your dryer from getting dry but it also causes it to overheat and then ignite the lint which is highly flammable. If you have not checked or cleaned your vent yet in the last three years, you should take a good look at it now and clean it.
Cleaning Your Vent with Proper Tools
The best way for you to prevent fires coming from your dyer is to ensure that you regularly clean your dryer vent which leads outside. But what are the tools that you should have in order to ensure that the lint will be eliminated? Here are the important tools to use.
- Cleaning brush. The dryer vent cleaning tools brush will be the main tool which you will be using when you clean your dryer vent. Why? The cleaning brush will be the primary tool that will get the lint from the vent. The lint can get stuck anywhere inside of your vent, you would want to get it all out. Just be very careful on what material the brush is made of. The tools that you use will spell out a huge difference and if you are careful, you will end up hurting the material that the vent is made of while you are running the brush inside the vent.
- Rods which are attached to the brush so that will get into the crevices and corners of the vent. You are not going to be able to reach every part of the vent especially if the vent is a long one and there is lint on the other end. A good rod is an important tool in that it will allow the cleaner to reach the darkest and deepest crevices and corners without even trying to stretch you vary far in the process. Many of these are flexible also so you are able to get through the turns and twists without lots of stress and hassles in the process. It will be much easier for you with a rod with your brush.