Central Pennsylvania Nesties
RIP Sweet Hanna girl 12.4.11
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Dryer Vent Cleaning
Has anyone ever had their dryer vents cleaned? I have lived in my house 3 years and have never had it professionally done nor have I cleaned them myself (with the exception of the lint trap). I can only imagine what is in my vents...and I'm sure my drying time would cut down if they were cleaned. Is this something you do regularly? Who have you had do it? TIA!
RIP Sweet Hanna girl 12.4.11
Re: Dryer Vent Cleaning
We've cleaned our dryer vents ourselves. We removed the hose and then used a brush and then a duster to get up into the vents and try to clean them out. There are kits you can get a BB&B but you really don't need it.
It's not something we do regularly but it's good to keep it cleaned so that the dryer works more efficiently.
we just had ours cleaned professionally by Dryer Vent Wizard- due to the fact that the way our vent comes out on our townhouse is awkward and hard to get to.... otherwise we would have done it ourselves and saved about $300!! But ours has never been done either since our house was built (7 yrs ago), but it was well worth the money, we found out our major problem was a birds nest half way up the vent was clogging all the lint (that's why it was taking us 3 cycles on 80 minutes EACH to dry one load!!) So now we are good to go, it only takes 40 minutes for one load now (what a difference!) He also put a metal vent in ours, which is better than the plastic/ foil ones, and we got a new vent flap on the outside so the birds cant make their way into this one! I would recommend dryer vent wizard, it was so expensive for us because of the new metal vent and the outside part- but I believe just the cleaning costs around $150.. good luck!