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Clothes Dryer Vent | Why is Dryer Vent Cleaning so Important

Clothes Dryer Vent

Is your clothes dryer vent discharging air from the appliance?
Is your dryer vent clean?
Does it take long to dry your clothes?
Have you checked your clothes dryer vent pipe in the attic or crawlspace?

There are still many home owners that fail to comply with current building code requirements concerning their clothes dryer vents. Unfortunately, the home owner could be the suffering one, not the code …
US Fire Administration report from January 2007 states:

Clothes dryer fires account for about 15,600 structure fires, 15 deaths, and 400 injuries annually.
Eighty percent of clothes dryer fires in structures occur in residential buildings.
Annually, 12,700 [...]