What is Lint

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)

The lint will build at the lint trap. Clothes dryer lint traps should be cleaned at least after every load of laundry you are drying. You may even want to stop the clothes dryer and check the lint trap halfway through a load of laundry. The cleaner the lint trap, the better the air flow. Better air flow equals faster drying times, which may save you electricity.