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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Learning to clean a dryer vent is worth the effort to speed up the laundry process. Let’s face it ...

The Staggering Numbers You Need to Know Here's something that should make every homeowner pause before tossing in their next load of laundry. Around 13,820 home fires are caused by clothes dryers ...

I've always said that cleaning your dryer vent twice a year — with the daylight savings time changes — is an easy, and very satisfying chore. Some experts recommend doing it quarterly. Unfortunately, ...

When your clothes dryer takes twice as long to dry clothes as when it was new, chances are you have a lint-collection problem and a fire waiting to happen, says the Chimney Safety Institute of America ...

Tumble dryers are a home appliance that many of us take for granted. We toss damp clothes in, and we get dry clothes out. End of story. But that’s not where the tale ends for some unfortunate ...

Q: Our home is 3 years old, custom built and has always had a laundry problem. The clothes in the dryer never become completely dry, no matter how long we run the dryer. Recently, while cleaning ...

It was a blessing in disguise. A few years ago, an electrician friend was called to a home because the monthly utility bill had gone through the roof without explanation. After performing typical ...

Q: We bought a new town house in 2007. It has a stacked washer/dryer set located in a utility closet that backs onto the interior shared wall of the third floor. The dryer is an electric model, which ...