When we are talking about the clothes dryer maintenance and care, there are a lot of things you have to bear in mind. Though it is likely something you think about the least, it could be the one cause you the biggest problem. Failure to maintain the dryer vent is the number one cause of clothes dryer related fires.

In order for you to be able to understand the importance of dryer vent cleaning, you first need to realise how to system works.

While the clothes is being dried, the lint is being removed and blown outside through the ventilation ducts. The trap will capture only 60 percent of the lint that comes out of clothes dryer. Before you dry each load and start to remove the lint, this is the part of the clothes dryer you should pull out. But that’s only 60 percent. But what will happen to the other forty percent?

And the part of lint that made it over the trap is on the way to the outdoors, through the duct system that goes from the clothes dryer. The duct work is that weird looking hose that seems to come out of the wall, but it actually is a hose that comes out of your dryer and it is going outside. It leads to the outside of your home and right into the dryer ventilation system, although you may not see that path at all. Some of the lint is going to be too heavy or sticky to make it all the way through the line and will get stuck up on the walls along the way. This is something that should be taken care of in an annual cleaning.

When the lint leaves your clothes dryer, her final stop is the dryer ventilation. This is a flapper vent top that is at the end of the line outside. At this place the hot and steamy air is finally loose. Lint will continue to build up, of course, which is a big fire hazard and a big obstacle for your clothes dryer to do its work properly.