Yuck! Ugh! Eww! I dutifully clean the lint filter in my RV dryer EVERY time I use it without fail, but this time saw more lint clinging to the bottom of the filter when I pulled it out. A thin string was connected to the filter, so I pulled it out.
I decided to stick my hand down where the filter fits, and gross!
I pulled out a wad of lint, hair, and dirt! It was nasty and is DEFINITELY a fire hazard.
I immediately decided to order a long dryer lint cleaner kit I found on Amazon and clean out the dryer exhaust port on the outside of the RV, as well. You should order one, too. This could be a major RV fire hazard.
What is your RV dryer hiding? Take a look, although I bet you don’t want to find out!
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We have the washer/dryer combo and does not have a lint screen.
A few years ago the clothes would not get dry so my husband took it apart and found a huge wet lint ball in the rubber fitting. I don’t get why that brand does not have a lint screen for easy use. We have to remember to pull it out every year or so to clean it out and its not a easy task as the cabinet has to come apart and that combo is heavy.
My husband helped another RV couple who was older and they had the same issue.
Its the Italian brand.
Anyone else have this issue or a easy fix?
While doing my walk-around, I noticed something holding my dryer’s vent flap slightly open on my RV. I got the A-Frame ladder out, hiked up to where I could get a closer look and there was a half-sock under the flap. An ankle sock? I pulled out and immediately cross examined our household laundry manager (my wife). She’s done a few loads of laundry in her day and is well versed with lint screens but she was just as mystified as to how a sock got into the dryer vent. If anyone has a similar experience, I’d love to hear your findings as blaming it on a malicious raccoon is our only hypothesis so far…..
Vince…you are now officially in the Guiness Book of World Records as the only person in history who has actually found one of those mysteriously missing socks that disappears in the laundry!!! Congratulations!!! 👍🤣
Actually the same is true for dryers in houses. Good note Nanci!
Good reminder, Nanci.
About a month ago, preparing for our first long voyage in our new-to-us ’21 New Aire, I decided to look down the slot that holds the dryer screen. While it wasn’t quite as bad as what you found, it was a pretty good quantity of packed lint. I got that out along with 48 cents in change and a key the previous owner must have left in a pocket before laundering clothes.
While we are not RVing, my wife and I travel around the world to scuba dive. In the last few years, a couple of dive boats have caught fire and burned from lint in the dryer vents catching on fire. One boat was less than 6 months old.
Thank you for the warning and product referral, Nanci! I did as you and pulled out a surprisingly large anount of lint mixed with dog hair. I will make do with the vacuum cleaner crevice tool until we return home. I put the duct cleaner on an Amazon wish list so I remember to order it later. Have a great week and safe travels!
We don’t have a washer & dryer in our rv but at home I know there is lint just out of reach below my lint filter & it drives me crazy that I can’t get to it. The slot is too narrow to stick a vacuum tool into so my husband takes the whole lint filter contraption out once every few months so I can get it cleaned out. I’ll order your suggestion when we get home. Great idea, thanks!
Another thing that can cause problems is the petro-chemical based fragrance chemicals in the laundry products. Lint coated in the oily residue is a fire hazard in itself.
Now you know what became of that gray cat that was hanging around.
as an appliance service man I saw so much of that. Quit using fabric softener. It makes lint sticky