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7 Signs Your Dryer Vent Is Blocked

Your dryer isn't broken. The air can't get out. Check these seven. If two are true, it's a $229 fix, done in about an hour.

  1. Loads take two cycles. The heat is fine. The wet air has nowhere to go.
  2. The top of the dryer is hot after a load. Heat that should have left through the duct stayed in the machine.
  3. The laundry room is humid or smells like a dryer sheet. Exhaust is leaking back into the room.
  4. Lint around the outside hood, or the flap won't close. Lint props the flap open. Birds see a warm tube.
  5. The flap barely lifts when the dryer runs. Stand outside with the dryer on. It should snap open.
  6. Clothes come out hotter than they used to. Restricted airflow raises the temperature at the element.
  7. It's been more than a year, or you can't remember. Long runs and roof exits fill faster than you'd think.

Two or more? It's a $229 fix.

Machine pulled and reconnected, the full run brushed from both ends, the roof or wall hood checked, and an airflow test you watch. About an hour. Same price in DFW, Mobile and Baldwin County.

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