How To Clean Ventless Dryer Lint Basket

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Acquire how to rapidly and hands clean your dryer lint trap — allowing your machine to run more efficiently and reducing the risk of a lint fire!

For much of my developed life, I erroneously assumed that the just maintenance my dryer required was to remove whatsoever visible lint from the lint screen.

Boy, was I wrong!

Several years ago, I learned that my specific dryer (a front loading GE brand) seemingly hoarded lint Inside the lint trap cavity, and required a thorough cleaning at least one time a yr to office properly.

For my car, this requires taking the front grate off the lint trap, cleaning this grate and the surrounding area, and and then use our shop vac to suck out the massive amounts of lint, hair, clay, and sand that somehow discover their way inside this surface area.

Pretty nasty, huh?!

Cleaning this function of the dryer isn't the most enjoyable affair I exercise… just it's honestly a very elementary process that merely takes well-nigh x to 15 minutes.

I only need to remember to actually do it!

Usually, I merely think most cleaning out the dryer lint when I'one thousand in the middle of doing four or v loads of laundry, so it becomes i of those things I vow to do "anytime" that ofttimes gets pushed off longer and longer.

I know you know how this goes! 😁

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Recently, I noticed our dryer wasn't drying well.

It was taking MUCH longer to dry out than normal… and I immediately assumed information technology was broken and needed repair (or worse, replacement).

As I was looking up the number for our appliance guy, I stopped myself and thought back to the concluding time I thoroughly cleaned out the lint trap.

I couldn't remember…

And so I put down the telephone, grabbed my screwdriver and shop vac, and got to piece of work.

I was appalled by how much lint I had pulled out of the lint trap cavity.

It was bad!

I merely kept pulling and sucking more and more junk out!

So, I went outside, took the vent cover off the side of the business firm, and pulled more lint and hair out from that cease.

Later wiping everything with a clammy microfiber fabric and scrubbing the lint catcher with dish soap, I put everything dorsum together and started it up again…

Wouldn't you know, our dryer ran as good as new again… and I finished our laundry in record fourth dimension!

I figure I saved myself at to the lowest degree $150 on a service phone call.

All with simply 15 minutes of attempt on my office!

If your dryer has been running a fleck tedious lately, if information technology's taking longer to dry your wearable, or if it's just been a while since you thoroughly cleaned out your lint trap, make a annotation to do it quondam THIS week.

Use the stride-by-pace instructions below to guide you through this simple process!

Prep Time 5 minutes

Active Time ten minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Instructions

Remove lint screen from the dryer and launder in warm soapy water (see notes below)
Use a screwdriver to remove the "cover" from the lint filter compartment and thoroughly make clean with vacuum and microfiber fabric
Employ a lint vent cleaning brush to loosen lint and droppings inside the dryer
Use a shop vac or dryer vent vacuum hose attachment to suck up loosened lint and droppings
Supplant the make clean comprehend over the lint filter compartment
Supervene upon lint screen
If possible, remove vent flap from the exterior dryer vent location and become through the same procedure of loosening the debris and sucking information technology out.
Consider switching to wool dryer balls instead of cloth softener sheets (which cause build-up on lint screen)

Notes

When then lint screen becomes clogged with grease or residue from dryer sheets information technology doesn't allow air to laissez passer through as freely -- which drastically slows down the drying process. I let the lint screen soak in hot water with a expert degreaser (I utilize the Blue Dawn) and then scrub information technology until it'southward totally clean.