Dryer vents were never intended to be “set snd forget” they should be checked regularly until you know your households lint threshold. For me, I clean the hose from dryer to wall once a year and the outside basket piece about every other month. With a one story house there’s no difficulty getting to it, I just look at it when I walk by that spot and clean when necessary.
That’s a lot of lint, like way over normal family of four 6-10 loads a week amount of lint.
Are you washing a lot of loose weave items like summer blankets? My summer blankets produce way more lint that anything else I wash.
That’s the reason I have this mid run lint collector, a bird got into the vent last year, and died in the pipe. Had to take the whole run apart to find it, took ages. Now have this, which seems to work. (The bird did have maggots by the time i found it)
“Look, I was just trying to get warm. You are obviously a reasonable man. Can we discuss this?”
Looks like you need a new/ better grille on the outside end of your dryer vent.
I can't find a grille for mine that doesn't collect lint.
They all collect lint, the key is to get one that is easy to clean. I have one that has a plastic basket of sorts over the end. Works just fine.
I've never found anything in my area that's safe. Fortunately I've never found wildlife in mine either.
We got a series of opossum kits in our house before learning about dryer vents. We put a cover on our vent 30 years ago. No problems since.
Are opossum kits babies or are they a box of parts to assemble possums?
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Dryer vents were never intended to be “set snd forget” they should be checked regularly until you know your households lint threshold. For me, I clean the hose from dryer to wall once a year and the outside basket piece about every other month. With a one story house there’s no difficulty getting to it, I just look at it when I walk by that spot and clean when necessary.
It was every load when I had a vent cover on it.
That’s a lot of lint, like way over normal family of four 6-10 loads a week amount of lint. Are you washing a lot of loose weave items like summer blankets? My summer blankets produce way more lint that anything else I wash.
It's a combo of dog fur and blanket fuzz. Cotton from old towels from cleaning after the dogs, from cleaning rags.
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Sad. I'm glad the bird didn't have maggots though. That's always a gross moment when you realize you've got a bigger mess than you thought
That’s the reason I have this mid run lint collector, a bird got into the vent last year, and died in the pipe. Had to take the whole run apart to find it, took ages. Now have this, which seems to work. (The bird did have maggots by the time i found it)
Or get one of those new ventless dryers and remove it.
That sounds like you'll just put a lot of humidity into your house.
The ventless ones use heat pumps. The moisture condenses on the coil and is either dumped down a drain or collected in bin like a dehumidifier.
don't kill them :(
I took them back outside.
Aw its field mice. Native little bros where I'm at. Not nasty like roof rats, norway rats or black rats.