Fire at home as a result of ignition occurring in your household home clothes dryer is not only a fairly frequent occurrence and also a means for claims for house property fire damage insurance claims. Yet this frequent causation cause for these home fires is very preventable with routine ongoing maintenance and cleaning of your clothes dryer ” be it gas fired or standard electric 110 or 220 volt utility laundry machines.
You would be amazed how just like many people never think of checking the air pressure in their vehicle’s tires , take their transmission fluid in their autos for granted for years and years without inspection and routine maintenance that many if not most property owners and renters never think about the dust and lint that fills the exhaust pipes and systems of their homes and abodes. Yet it all very simple , quick and does not take much time or effort at all.
Anything and everything that you as home or property owner can do to prevent fire and damage to your property and dwellings is time and energy more than well spent . A little bit of prevention on your or your family’s part will pay it part in spades. To ensure maximum as well as dependable and trustworthy safe dryer performance it is best to :
1)Choose rigid or corrugated semi-rigid sheet metal vents for your dryer. Coiled -wire foil or plastic venting materials, can catch fire and thus restrict air flow and flows. 2)Make sure to check the outside exterior dryer vent while the dryer appliance is operating to make sure exhaust gas is escaping. It it is not, the vent or the exhaust duct may be blocked and thus need maintenance. 3)Make it a regular and solid practice to check and regularly remove lint and dust from the vent itself and the back of your dryer as well. Some homeowners and commercial laundry supervisors in commercial properties , property management and laundromats will go so far as to use a vacuum to cleanly and fully vacuum out the dust . Others use air compressors as well as final blow out of the dust and lint in the commercial property laundromat clothes dryers. If the pros can do this with commercial machines maybe you should employ this cleaning and maintenance routine as well.
Smokey the Bear prevents forest fires. You as a homeowner or resident in an apartment block should prevent dryer lint exhaust pipe fires. Imagine one little dust bunny in your home clothes drier exhaust pipe system can result in a major occurrence of a household fire with resulting damage , destruction to your property as well as increased property insurance premiums for your real estate in the future.
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