My dryer was acting like a shit and not drying clothes all the way on the auto sensing cycle and leaving shit damp and requiring additional cycles to dry. This prompted me to do some maintenance to track down the problem and the problem was excessive lint build up in the dryer's lint trap housing, blower fan and housing and the exhaust ducts. What I also found scared the shit out of me. The accumulation of lint and dust in the dryer units cabinet near the heating assembly had been burning. There was a lot of it. I'm damn lucky I didn't have a house fire.

I'm tearing all the appliances in the house apart this weekend to clean out dust and dog hair from motors, electrical parts. ventilation holes and coils. I'm also going to include the hot water heater as well as drain the sediment out of the tank.

After cleaning out the dryer I removed almost 5 pounds of lint from the unit and exhaust ducts. The dryer hasn't worked so well in years.

you can also snake the exhaust pipe that runs to the exterior of the house; tons of shit stuck in there.

Dryer lint makes excellent kindling for the wood stove.

Make sure that screws or nails are never used to put the ducts together. Use duct tape only. That's building code where I live.

It's also common sense, since metal gets hot and could easily ignite that lint.

It's just one of those things people don't think about. We have so much electrical stuff these days that are just plug in and forget.

Every 90 degree turn in your exhaust ducting is considered 8 feet of duct length. If you have two 90s then thats 16 feet of duct length added to the total. I think rigid duct can't exceed 40 feet and flexible duct is like 18 or 20 feet max.

I was crawling around tonight pulling out my dryer duct and blowing compressed air through it. I should just replace it but I'm flying out in a few hours and don't have the time.

*** this is where Bornyo comes in and schools us on dryer lint and potato guns ***