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 ...

If your dryer is in the basement and the basement is underground, run duct up the exterior wall and out the rim joist. Set the vent a minimum of 12 inches above the outside ground. Pro tip: Use no ...

Even if your laundry routine doesn’t feel any different, winter shifts your dryer into overdrive. According to data from the ...

As I travel life’s highways I often gaze at other people’s homes and ask, “How do they vent their clothes dryer?” Getting the dryer’s hot, humid exhaust and its accompanying lint out of the house has ...

Dryers are often overlooked areas to clean, but they should definitely be on your list to tackle this season. Luckily, the ...

Cleaning your dryer vent is essential for keeping your dryer running optimally. Too much lint buildup can eventually lead to a dryer fire. A vent brush and vacuum hose attachment provide the most ...

Q. In a recent issue of our newspaper, one of your fellow writers said it was OK to vent an electric (NOT GAS) dryer indoors to gain heat and humidity with an indoor-outdoor venting system. I thought ...

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 ...

So I have seen two devices that let you vent the hot air from your dryer into your house.<BR><BR>The one I liked the most was just a box that goes on your vent tube between the dryer and the ...

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 ...

If you're like most, you probably don’t give too much thought to starting the dryer for a morning load of laundry before leaving the house. After all, modern washers and dryers are such big and ...

A heat map showing the distribution and concentration of fibers from the test blanket in 14 plots that were sampled. The bigger and darker the circle, the more fibers were found at the test location.