Lint is the deterioration of your clothing, jeans, bed sheets, towels etc. Lint is mainly cotton. We normally wash our clothes in the washing machine. The washing machine will agitate the material and also cause some wear.

When moved to the clothes dryer small particles of ' Lint ' will start to break away from the clothes or off the material being dried.  Any cloth item will break down over a period of time from being tumbled in your washer and dryer appliance. The washer does it's job and the clothes dryer catches the particles in the from of what we call lint. A certain percentage of the lint is caught by the lint trap, but not all of it. (More details about this in the members area, air movement is complicated)

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There is a major misconception that a fire will be prevented by cleaning your dryer ducting. The cleaning of your dryer ducting is an important first step. Preventing a fire involves several steps that can only be considered to be a reasonable effort. The most important area is the inside of your clothes dryer and especially around your clothes dryer's element.

This is not the type of cleaning you or your dryer duct cleaner should be doing. An appliance, any of them, should only be serviced by qualified technicians. We are not talking about a person who simply claims to know how to fix an appliance but someone who is truly qualitfied. Appliances are much more complicated today than they were 20 or 30 years ago. Just like our new vehicles that need a computer to analyize them, an appliance needs a skilled trades person!

The type of material used to hook up your clothes dryer is important.  The wrong material will help cause the lint to build up behind your clothes dryer or add to the leaking of lint into your home.

We will point out the wrong material to use for connecting your clothes dryer to the wall. We will discuss the correct material and methods of connection with our customer's only. B.C. Dryer Ducts Only Inc. does not offer any no charge consulting.

Please be careful what you buy for connecting your clothes dryer to the wall in your home. The wrong material is sold daily at many of our large box store's.

We follow common sense and knowledge acquired from many years of experience. We do what we know works. B vent or fire-place material is NOT the correct material for a dryer exhaust duct, no matter what you are being told in the store selling it! We have even found appliance companies installing it!

The connection point is where many problems start that effect the whole system. Installing a type of material to connect your dryer to the wall is not always an easy process. Most home owners that hook up their own clothes dryer do not do it correctly. You may not be saving any money by doing it yourself!

The picture shows what happens when duct tape is used to connect the hose to the dryer. This incorrect material will not clamp correctly which causes the installer to use huge amounts of duct tape, which will usually get hot and fall off. Even if it does not fall off, you can see how much lint ends up behind the clothes dryer.

Worrying about the type of material and not worrying about the lint that is getting drawn into your clothes dryer is a mistake. It is lint inside of a clothes dryer that is more likely to cause a fire. There are possible health issues for some of us who breathe in lint dust over the years!

Flexible material to hook up a clothes dryer was invented decades ago and is still the best method of connecting a clothes dryer to the wall outlet. Hard pipe is not possible for everyone and the fact is hard pipe normally leaks a great deal of lint out.

Leaking lint into your home can end up inside your clothes dryer, around the element.  The element area is where most fires start. Having your clothes dryer taken apart by a qualified professional appliance person is recommended on a regular schedule. Just taking the back off your clothes dryer is not a complete job. Notice we said "Qualified Professional Appliance person"! We are not and we do not provide this type of service.