leebee
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 14, 1999
AH, the joys of home ownership! Our dryer is pretty old, but it's a real work-horse, or it was until recently. It's now taking three full cycles to dry a load of clothes. We aren't overloading the dryer or anything, not putting in towels or jeans, it's just not drying the way it used to. Yesterday DH and I took down the vertical dryer exhaust duct work and cleaned it out, and then took the back off the dryer. We cleaned out all the lint from the wires and such and removed the housing from the lint trap to clean that out, too. BOY was I shocked to see what gets thru the lint trap... bobby pins, paper clips, and three of DH's "missing" tie chains! Anyhow, we put it all back together, put in a load of wet laundry, and crossed our fingers. Nope... still took three dryer cycles to dry the clothes. Next weekend we will go up into the attic (ICK) and deal with the duct work there, but I'm beginning to think it might be something else. Anyone have any ideas? I don't know if dryers have sensors or heat detectors or whatever that, if they "go bad" will make the dryer not work properly? Three cycles to dry one load of clothes is excessive, and you can imagine what it's doing to our electric bill!