We love our Splendide, use it all the time, but recently we noticed that the heat was cutting off on the drying cycle. Lee pulled out the machine and when he disconnected the hose out I am sorry to say it was more than 3/4 full of lint. Apparently our dryer hose has to make two 90 degreed turns to reach the outside vent and the the air pressure is obviously not enough to push it all out.
Don't get me wrong me absolutely should have checked this sooner (another example of thinking with a sticks and bricks mentality), but the angle is not helping. Long-term solution might be to cut another vent, but for now we need to add it to the things we check frequently. Thankfully it wasn't that hard to get to once all the clothes were removed. You may already be doing this, but for those people like us who didn't think it would be that big of an issue, wanted to pass it along.
Trace
Terry and Jo said
11:36 AM Dec 31, 2016
Trace,
The wife has some kind of hose fitting that she puts on our Shark vacuum that lets her fish it back into the vent system to vacuum out in there. She uses it fairly regularly, probably about every two months. However, she said that it is used mostly to clean the vent system of the dryer, not all the way into the hose.
We love our Splendide, use it all the time, but recently we noticed that the heat was cutting off on the drying cycle. Lee pulled out the machine and when he disconnected the hose out I am sorry to say it was more than 3/4 full of lint. Apparently our dryer hose has to make two 90 degreed turns to reach the outside vent and the the air pressure is obviously not enough to push it all out.
Don't get me wrong me absolutely should have checked this sooner (another example of thinking with a sticks and bricks mentality), but the angle is not helping. Long-term solution might be to cut another vent, but for now we need to add it to the things we check frequently. Thankfully it wasn't that hard to get to once all the clothes were removed. You may already be doing this, but for those people like us who didn't think it would be that big of an issue, wanted to pass it along.
Trace
Trace,
The wife has some kind of hose fitting that she puts on our Shark vacuum that lets her fish it back into the vent system to vacuum out in there. She uses it fairly regularly, probably about every two months. However, she said that it is used mostly to clean the vent system of the dryer, not all the way into the hose.
Terry