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billroperOk, I was wrong.
There was still a substantial amount of lint in the dryer, but it appears that the dryer exhaust is clogged with something. This isn't a great surprise, I suppose, since there's no vent cap, but we were supposed to get a vent cap put on when the exhaust line was last cleaned and it didn't happen and here we are again.
The service tech doesn't clean lines, so we had to pay for the cleaning of the dryer inside and now we will have to pay to get the exhaust line cleaned again by someone else. We did avoid buying an expensive extended warranty plan from him. (I have been rather sour on these since the month of cold showers that I took while waiting for anything useful to happen with the Lowe's extended warranty on our water heater.)
The problem here is that when they originally built the house, they installed one of the vent caps that has a big piece of pipe coming out of it and mortared it into the wall. When the vent cap (too many years ago) gave up the ghost, there was no way to trivially replace it.
Today, I took a chair, a hammer, and a chisel out in the annoying afternoon heat and knocked out enough of the mortar to get a vent cap (with no attached pipe) to stay in position. When it is cooler, I will go to Home Depot, get a smaller chisel than the one that I had, and knock out enough additional mortar that the cap will sit flush.
I am annoyed for a large variety of reasons, one of which is that I know better than this, but it is difficult when you're fighting uphill against a badly engineered and hard to fix bit of kit.
*sigh*
There was still a substantial amount of lint in the dryer, but it appears that the dryer exhaust is clogged with something. This isn't a great surprise, I suppose, since there's no vent cap, but we were supposed to get a vent cap put on when the exhaust line was last cleaned and it didn't happen and here we are again.
The service tech doesn't clean lines, so we had to pay for the cleaning of the dryer inside and now we will have to pay to get the exhaust line cleaned again by someone else. We did avoid buying an expensive extended warranty plan from him. (I have been rather sour on these since the month of cold showers that I took while waiting for anything useful to happen with the Lowe's extended warranty on our water heater.)
The problem here is that when they originally built the house, they installed one of the vent caps that has a big piece of pipe coming out of it and mortared it into the wall. When the vent cap (too many years ago) gave up the ghost, there was no way to trivially replace it.
Today, I took a chair, a hammer, and a chisel out in the annoying afternoon heat and knocked out enough of the mortar to get a vent cap (with no attached pipe) to stay in position. When it is cooler, I will go to Home Depot, get a smaller chisel than the one that I had, and knock out enough additional mortar that the cap will sit flush.
I am annoyed for a large variety of reasons, one of which is that I know better than this, but it is difficult when you're fighting uphill against a badly engineered and hard to fix bit of kit.
*sigh*