Have you ever cleaned your clothes dryer vent? You know, that hose that goes from the back of your dryer to the outside?
You’re supposed to clean it at least annually to prevent the risk of fire (and other reasons), but I cleaned mine for the first time in 17 years recently.
What prompted me to do it? Our dryer wasn’t working well, so I did some research and read that a clogged vent could impact drying performance. I bought a thingamajig on Amazon, watched a YouTube video on how to use it, and cleaned the vent.
Yes, the vent desperately needed to be cleaned. Enough lint and other crap came out to stuff a medium-sized teddy bear. And no, cleaning the vent did not fix the drying problem. Did you really think it would be that easy for me?
But I refused to give up, so I watched many more videos on YouTube (too many, my wife told me) on how to take dryers apart and …