Psychotomy

Interesting point for anyone using cloth diapers –

You seriously need to clean the dryer vent regularly. As in, take the hose off entirely and dredge it out.

I did that last night, because our diapers take two cycles. ~60-90 minutes ‘auto’ on low heat and 60 on medium (avoiding high to keep them from shrinking too badly or anything, and the automatic damp detect usually calls up short. For sheets and clothes, it’s OK. A little damp on sweaters. But cloth diapers, being generally designed to absorb things … so two cycles.

But between India and Thanksgiving, I started noticing that the first cycle was taking 2 and edging towards 3. So since Kiir and DK were coming back a day later than me, I decided to vacuum the hose, which I’ve done occasionally. Except when I pulled it off the end of the dryer I saw a bunch of fuzz, so I reached in to see how bad and it was pretty solid. And then I realized the vacuum was only getting a little bit. So I started reaching in by hand.

It turns out that dryer fuzz gets caught up in the folding on the hose. So I kept folding and pulling, eventually pulled it off the other end so I could get it from both ends …

In the end, I had nearly a cubic foot of dryer fuzz. OMFG.

So, pull the accordian vent off and dredge it by hand, folks. Collapse it down, then use your fingertips to drag the bottom edge, collecting the fuzz as you expand and collapse the hose by your fingers (basically using your fingers push it unfolded and let it fold back up behind you again ; you need to fold it because it’s a long hose usually)

This has been a public service announcement.

Posted in: PI by attriel /