If there's a lot of lint still in the vent, vacuum it again. Tidy up the floor below your dryer vent, collecting any lint that's fallen onto it. Then, push the dryer back towards the vent and ...

Another indication of poor or obstructed venting is that the dryer’s external cabinet or its control area is hotter than ...

If your dryer vent is anything like mine, expect a lot of lint to come flooding out of the wall. The amount of junk that littered the laundry room floor brought my upright vacuum to its knees.

About a third of those fires were caused by failure to clean the dryer vents. “In a matter of minutes, you can go from a small fire to an inferno,” said Jeff Shapiro, the executive director of ...

Another large culprit of house fires Fisk has found is dryer vents getting clogged up. "The dryer vent fires are more common in Austin than chimney fires," Fisk said. Depending on how many people ...