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Conduct Regular Dryer Vent Maintenance

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Prevent lint fires by regularly cleaning your dryer's lint trap (ideally after every load) and periodically checking the dryer's exhaust hose. The video demonstrates how highly flammable accumulated lint can be by igniting it in a fireplace. It also highlights the danger of lint escaping past the trap and accumulating in the exhaust hose or behind the dryer, which can happen if the flexible hose repeatedly breaks its seal after being disconnected for cleaning. Ensure dryer hoses are clean and properly sealed to minimize fire risk.

Goal: Mitigate fire risks associated with dryer lint.

Tools and materials

  • Dryer LG — The appliance to be maintained
  • Lighter — Demonstrating lint flammability. Use with extreme caution
  • Lint Trap LG — Part of the dryer that collects lint
  • Dryer Lint N/A — Accumulated material to be removed

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please read the comments a lot of them are usually electrical fires but lint players yeah I just think a lot of them yep just lint I know people that actually use lint to get their fire started in their wood stoves because it's so it's so flammable just poof he's Linn they use mint they get balls they say they're lint through the dryer deal throw it all in after when they need to light the wood stove if it goes off they ball it up throw it in there light it it managed to what it is just uh just like fuel Kim I've well that was the weirdest thing when I first started demoing houses from fires yeah because I would walk through with the fire inspector and I'd ask him well where did where did this fire start and a lot of times you're like from the dryer you can see the lint you can see right where and then they would point out exactly and they said if people would just clean out their dryers yes in fact I just told uh Don that because I went so you got on the metal flux hoses yeah I just went by and capped it you know and if it feels heavy it's the walls are full I mean that that that flex pipe should be just as light and flow free-flowing as possible you know yeah and I went by hers I just tapped it because he's got a long run man it was like it was like hitting cardboard and then it shouldn't be like that no so and then I told her to clean up what she did yeah but man she said there was a lot of stuff in her still but I mean it just people don't realize that yeah it's what you do it's like a 15-dollar part at Menards right right Wow you don't even have to replace it just may take it take it outside shake it around it all falls out Chloe yeah but then the then the the problem is is when you put them back on and you put the dryer duct back on to the back of the dryer yeah if you do once you clean it a number of times you can't go really a good seal great and so then the lint blows behind the dryer then then act another fire and that's another fire hazard all right you guys this is my laundry room I know it looks like a tropical jungle but that's not what we're looking at we're actually looking at here's my dryer here's my lint trap I clean that every single time just like all of you guys do I want to show you how much lint actually have a bucket here how much lint you guys really I don't want to see your lint that's not the point you guys the point is look at how much lint gets past the lint trap let's fish this out [Music] that's what burns down that's one of…

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