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meowingintensifies
there are 3 places lint can collect: the filter you pull out, the area behind the drum, and the exhaust pipe (goes outside the house).
MintyFreshReferrals
“You complete me” takes on a new, less interesting meaning…
StillScreamingIntoTheVoid
Fabulous couple communication here.
reichstein
TwoDogsFucking
I don't think she knows about second lint trap, Pippin.
DonkeyGoat
Well apparently I only clean half of them...
squirrelgirl86
We sublet our apartment for 6 months to some friends while my husband took a gig out of state. They told us about 4 months in that our dryer had stopped working. It wasn't a great dryer so I wasn't too surprised by this... I did think about asking them about the lint trap but figured that was obvious and condescending. Nope. The brick of lint i pulled out of that thing was like 3 inches thick. No idea how they didn't burn the place down.
JollyOrc
well, here's me, finding the 2nd lint trap in the dryer after 4+ years.
BlueDsc
A friend of mine is a handyman, and from what he tells me, a scary number of people don't clean their lint traps regularly.
adiving
Mine cleans itself most of the time. Crazy shit has to happen to stop that (happened once).
Baconlovesyoutoo
In the US there are 14K house fires caused by dryers every year.
codeacrobat
Yes
yakusokuN8
I've never used a front-loading washer before I moved last year and I found out only recently that you're supposed to leave the front door OPEN after emptying the wet clothes. So, I think I lost the right to lecture anyone about lint traps now.
mixiekins
wait until you hear about the washer lint trap!
tinyCabbage
Most Americans dont know that, in the rest of the world, the lint trap isn't a issue, because they arent allowed to manufacture shit that catches on fire, so they make dryers that dont just randomly catch on fire.
Colopty
Sounds more like it was a net positive argument for both of them.
brainwipe
On some UK condenser dryers: one is a lint trap, the other is a condenser filter. The condenser filter gets wet, the lint trap is always dry.
Zombieds
That's not a second lint trap, it's the filter on a condensing dryer
Frogspoison
The only dryer I used had 2 lint traps - one on the inside of the dryer, and another at the end of the exhaust vent. Dryer needed to be cleaned every use, exhaust vent about once per 2 weeks
Evenmoreuselessname
Or maybe https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoRealEstate/comments/jr0gr7/psa_for_condo_dwellers_your_dryers_second_lint/
aThingWithAKeyboard
Some have 2 actual lint traps ..like mine. Not a condensing dryer.
McPuffinStuff
harbengerprime
why is he sucking it back up into the dryer?
LMTMFA
So I heard you like housefires o_o
mixiekins
BillyM00n
Evo435
In an apartment, recently took the door apart on my dryer and cleaned the lint that made it past the trap. Thinking about taking the whole front of the dryer off it is probably filled with the stuff.
hiyesthisissatan
Anytime I work on my dryer (1-3x/year) I just take the whole thing apart and vacuum it. There's an alarming amount of lint that collects near the heat coil.
SmoeAhsolse
Why do you need to work on it so much? Mine is ancient and I only take it apart if someone puts a load of towels soaked from the wash that didn't spin properly and the belt snaps.
grschaef
I take mine apart about once a year. The idler will start squeaking, so I clean the whole dryer, replace idler, belt, and drum rollers.
SmoeAhsolse
Ok, I thought you meant actual repairs/replacing work new parts up to three times per year. Cleaning so it doesn't squeak makes much more sense.
hiyesthisissatan
That was a different person. I do the cleaning and replacement parts.
hiyesthisissatan
Busy family. I do about 20 (sometimes more) loads of laundry a week. The belt or stabilizer wheels wear out about twice a year. , the heat coil has burned out once. The door handle broke once. The door close sensor went out. The lock tab snapped a few years ago. A little relay sensor burned out and it wouldn't start. The thermistor needed replacing once. I also replaced the motor once but it turns out my meter was faulty and the motor was fine. 🙄 Lol
SmoeAhsolse
Ok, you also do almost 10 times as much laundry. It's a good thing you can do the work yourself. You'd need a fourth job (after day job, family, laundry) to pay for repair services.
hiyesthisissatan
Lmao, yep. Same with the washer, dishwasher, vacuum and everything else the gets run ragged around here.
Mack1986
I have a dog. Every single load of laundry gets a 20 minute cycle on low or medium. Clena trap. Then normal cycle. That first clean is entirely dog hair
creepyed
Something to consider, @mrandypuppy
eetsumkaus
owner of two huskies. Hmm, I'll try this next time.
Mack1986
Its super critical. Or else the trap is so clogged with hair a 2 hour cycle is as efficient as a 30 minute one
MuttMinder
I run a home-based dog day camp. I have 10 dogs in my living room 4 days a week. Pro tip: Before washing clothes or dog bedding, run the load through the dryer for 10 minutes with no heat. Then wash. Clean lint trap, then dry. So much more effective at reducing the hair. Also clogs the washing machine less and puts less hair down the drains (extra important if you're on septic). Plus less heat drying time.
MmmYesShallowAndPedantic
❤️❤️❤️ gonna try this asap but already feeling jazzed about the potential
drhobotron
I do like this post, but my favorite part is that it brought the meme truthers out of the woodwork. "I've owned three dryers, and none had more than one lint trap, therefore such a thing doesn't exist!"
dbox
I need to disassemble the dryer and clean the vent
tafoyGiraffePrincess
Because Im a home owner and pay my own bills including insurance. We clean the main lint trap every time. Hubs takes apart the drum and exhaust bi annually . A large number of fires are due to the dryer and lint build up. No joke.
gypsyspot
You must get alarmed more easily than I do. I'm not alarmed by the amount of all house fires irrespective of the cause.
tafoyGiraffePrincess
Ive known 1 family who lost their home and pets and 1 significant damage to the home. But go ahead and be lackadaisical.
Do your research on dryer fires.
gypsyspot
Just alarmed less easily I guess. Didn't say it was the right way, just my way. I've known nobody who's lost pets or homes from fires. Maybe that's why. Let's look up causes of death and we where it falls statistically, maybe that will help decide if you think we all must know and be concerned about it.
OrkenMork
what cloths dryer has *2* lint traps?
barbarian818
Some homes have an extra filter installed inline with the exhaust duct. like this https://www.homedepot.ca/product/everbilt-dryer-duct-lint-trap/1001803923 They exist because the appliance filters don't get 100% and build up in the ducts is a fire hazard.
nupoile
You can install a 2nd lint trap in the hose that comes out of the dyer. It's useful if you have a really long or hard to clean vent line. So it wouldn't actually be *in* the dryer, but somewhere else in the room/house.
shitheadtookmyname
Mine. Miele , great German brand.
PerdySavvy
My dryer has 2 in my apartment. One in the drum, and one you access from the front. I clear the drum trap every time, and the other I clear about once a month.
Zombieds
A condensing dryer. But it's not actually a second lint trap, but a filter. It does need to be cleaned though
Froggie243
Several models lol
LuminoZero
Mine in my apartment. Drove me nuts because I was cleaning one of them, but my clothing was still damp. When I finally found the other one, magically the problem was solved.
Rihn
Mine has 3.
afatality
sounds like ones that are worth it
Vargood
Mine has 3.
Astral134
Mine has 4!
Vargood
You win.
PumpkinDriver5
I dunno but now I’m worried.
RtsWillH1Mself
I have seen them in the wall right before booster fans. Just a little handle sticking out of the wall
thepatioheater
Gee Billy! How come your mom lets you have 2 lint traps???
Kaleopolitus
Mine has three. But two of them are right next to each other, and one can't be cleaned without removing the other.
The third is there to protect the cooling element (European design).
Lontri
The one my parents have has two lint traps. My dad doesn't clean either one of them.
Omistaja
That's a fire hazard.
pritolus
Mine has two but they're nestled so at least you'll never find just one
LittlemissEm
Some have one in the back and one just inside the barrel. One to filter lint being pulled thru, one to catch the lint writhing the drying process. I also worked with some big commercial ones with large ones in the barrel and one below you basically had to sweep out Try and clean them regularly yall. Severe fire hazard.
CarpoolTunnelSyndrome
Most dryers actually have 4 lint traps. Two fairly obvious ones and a secret one which eventually drops enough lint hints to uncover the one true lint trap.
baals
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ImperfectDad
These are the lint traps given to man. There were two other lint traps, one given to the dwarves and another to the elves.
sharikov
But they were all of them deceived, for another lint trap was made...
Doismellbacon
I'm learning so much tonight
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Your average European dryer is not hooked up to a wall vent because we don't typically have wall vents, especially not in apartments. Instead the exhaust air is cooled and dehumidified before it's released into the room, and the water collected in a removable tank. There is only one lint trap in mine, but the cooling element acts like a second lint trap and has to be regularly rinsed out.
TharrickLawson
mine has the cooling element as part of a heat pump that then recirculates the heat back into the dryer part, which is quite nifty
allthetimewasted
If you look closely inside the door frame you can also see a second lint trap which should be emptied each time. The big box trap can be emptied less frequently.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Yeah, the one in the door frame is the actual lint trap. Which should ideally stop all lint but some gets through and accumulates in the heat sink over time.
pooplloser
This guy tumble dries
Evenmoreuselessname
Pretty sure they mean like https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoRealEstate/comments/jr0gr7/psa_for_condo_dwellers_your_dryers_second_lint/
twolfhound
American here, living in Europe, with one of these dryers... I did not know about this second lint trap and have to go check this before my house burns down! Today, in the things I've learned from Imgur...
HFlashman
JollyOrc
your comment made me look. Found it. Full of wet lint. TIL it exists, after 4+ years...
Trimule
AngelBunny8888
Our last machine was like this, horrid, that thing needed rinsing out all the time, and we had to clean the primary trap 8 to 12 yes to dry a load of washing, I hated that thing
FrozenFor30Years
That one is usually once a month, not every dry, though. At least, that's the recomendation on mine.
clutchthepearls
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robingal1
I learned a thing! Thank you
kershaw
You don't need a tank. Water goes in, water goes out. They need a drain.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
The tank allows you to place the dryer wherever you want. Bathroom, kitchen, or even next to the living room couch if you're pressed for space. Otherwise you'd need a drain in the floor or a hose connected to the drainage system.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
The one I use has a flat tank that slides under the dryer. Just empty it out after 1-2 dryer loads. If you pour the water in a bucket you can use it for cleaning purposes.
LMTMFA
I have nearly that exact drier and I can only take out the front part before the metal contraption that's showing, it's a separate filter from the one that's in the tumbler.... Gonna have me an extra good look just to be sure....
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Usually you have to open the hatch, turn two little levers, take out a piece of plastic, and behind that plastic part sits the heat sink / cooling element. In some models the plastic thing is fixed to the heat sink, such as in this photo ↓. I simply rinse it out with the showerhead.
LMTMFA
What the shit... I'm gonna have a very good look in a minute, because that metal part looks completely molded into the machine to me...
LMTMFA
Turns out ours is just mounted in there and basically the manual says to vacuum it every now and then. Alrighty then :P
SnowOblivion
You have a dryer?!?! Kidding, but most places over here, we have drying racks instead
GravitySmellsLikeCheese
I had the overhead dryer for decades but when I moved to a house with a lower ceiling I finally relented and bought a heat pump condensing dryer. It has an eco mode that takes it to 5% humidity retained in the clothes. But sometimes I’ll just put it on again and reuse the residual heat. Uses next to nothing to run. Especially as I have solar and batteries too.
Sigge1981
I have both. I stopped using my dryer almost completely a few years ago when electricity became comparatively very expensive. These days it all goes on the rack. If, on the off chance, i need something dried NOW i use the drier, but that is very uncommon. Like once or twice a year.
shorey66
European here
Who the hell uses a dryer? I put clothes out on the line to dry, if it's raining they go on the airer inside.
LittlePinkAnimal
You're not putting your clothes out to dry in -15C. And unless you have a dehumidifier inside you don't want all that moisture in the air indoors regularly unless you want mould.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Every household here in rainy Germany for example. Probably every Dutch, British and Scandinavian household too seeing as they get as much or more rain as we do. I sometimes put a rack outside on sunny days, but you have to check the weather forecast because most of the time it looks like this ↓. As for indoor air-drying, that's asking for mold over here. 80% of the year you can't simply leave the windows open
shorey66
I'm rainy UK here. Been drying indoors for 15 years. Not a hint of mold. Though it is a fairly new house with good insulation and ventilation.
Mithi
Many, but not every! I use mine just for towels. Everything else goes on the line respectively on coat hangers. The latter saves a lot of time on ironing shirts.
dasklaus
What are you talking about? It rarely looks like this, I know nobody with a dryer and I'm German. Some people use their balcony or backyard, and take stuff down when it's raining (and time their laundry with the forecast) but most people hang their clothes inside, in the bathroom or living room or bedroom or attic. Many people have a bedroom window open year-round, and stoßlüften is enough to prevent mold.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
So sieht das Wetter den Großteil des Sommers über aus hier im hohen Norden, und "I know nobody with a dryer" ist ja mal ganz großer Schwachsinn. Das kauf ich dir einfach nicht ab. Von Studentenbuden mal abgesehen hat doch hierzulande jeder eine Waschmaschine und Trockner. Selbst in Schlichthäusern quetscht man die ins winzige Badezimmer. Das war schon in den 70ern so. Heutzutage gibt es ja auch platzsparende Kombigeräte. Mir ist noch nie ein erwerbstätiger Erwachsener ohne Trockner begegnet.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
"bedroom window open year-round" ist auch kompletter Schwachsinn. Da frieren dir doch im WInter die Heizungsrohre ein.
IckesTheSane
Dehumidifier / ventless dryers are juuuust starting to become a thing here in the U.S., but are far from the norm.
Fn0rd
Interesting. That was the only form of dryer I’ve ever known here in Germany. Because it was my “chore” to dry the laundry and had to empty the large water tank of condensation, every time I got the laundry out of the dryer. I had no idea American driers are connected to air vents in the wall until a couple of years ago.
northernmt
Mostly because they kinda suck if you are used to vented dryers. I lived in Germany for a couple of years and my apartment had a condensing dryer. Still had to hang everything after it came out.
lronMaiden
I have washer dryer with condenser design and it has always dried everything without issues and definitely without need to hang them.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Huh. I never had that issue. Granted, you have to use a pretty high setting if you run a full load with items like thick jeans clothing or blankets, but if you set the dial high enough it comes out dry.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Or you can run the full load and put everything that comes out a little damp back in for a second cycle. That way your fabrics don't get cooked at high temperatures and last longer.
Fn0rd
Never had to hang my laundry afterwards. And why not just give the still damp clothes another round in the dryer?
UncleShrimp
My last two or three dryers have been condensers, and they have dried just as well as my old ones. In your case it sounds like an issue with the sensor, not the type of dryer you used.
dotStart
Or it was a cheap landlord special without a sensor in which case you get to run it for an hour, check, run it again, repeat until actually dry. I don't know why those are still being manufactured tbh.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Sensor issues used to be very common back when people used fabric softener, which can leave a film on the sensor. Most have wised up by now and stopped wasting money on something unnecessary (a little vinegar does the same trick).
Luorric
Woah I had no idea that was a thing! Does it end up sucking up a lot of energy for the sake of the dehumidifier/cooling too?
DongleDingler
From the one ventless dryer I've worked with, it uses minimal or no heat, making it more efficient, but the dry cycle takes hours
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
The cooling element is basically just a huge aluminum heat sink that doesn't draw energy. It also takes care of the dehumidification by serving as a cold condenser surface. If you want to be as green as possible you can use the water tank contents to mop your floors.
mike13815
You can buy heat pump dryers that recycle the heat in a closed loop, acting as a dehumidifier. 500%+ efficiency.
bullestock
Recirculating driers use a lot less energy than those that vent to the outside.
GenesisMachines
My dryer has a heat pump, not a heating element. So it moves heat from the condensing parts of the system to the drum. This is cheaper to run than an american heating element dryer that vents electrical heated moisture into the outside air.
nord54
No, the exact opposite. This method is far more energy efficient.
IckesTheSane
I’m not sure how the dryer units themselves compare energy wise, but a big plus for the ventless dryer is that a standard dryer pulls so much conditioned air out of your house; it basically makes a vacuum. So you have to condition the air that gets replaced from the outside, and _that_ uses a lot of energy.
mikeatike
There's a lot of water removed from clothes, the LAST thing I need is that humidity dumped into my living space.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
And heated air in the colder months. We don't typically use A/C in Germany but we have to heat for 7-8 months per year.
dasklaus
... you heat for 7-8 months a year? I heat for about 4. Granted, I also profit a lot from the heat of my neighbours, so if you live at ground floor level or have a free-standing house that might be different.
lronMaiden
Ventless dryers are far more energy efficient
explainer
No it's actually one of the most energy efficient driers available, and it doesn't cook your clothes, so they last longer and don't shrink as much
LeoFloof
When I had them in different apartments they were energy efficient because they didn’t dry clothes. Everything came out nice and warm! And extremely damp.
Hot, wet clothes do dry nicely when you hang them. So I guess that was helpful?
BrdCdn
Your mileage may vary. Depends on the ambient climate and the quality of the machines. I had one for a couple years at a place that took multiple cycles to get clothes dry thereby more than defeating any energy savings. Did the math and the new high efficiency exterior duct one at the next place used less power in the end.