Cleaning The Pressure Vacuum Vents

Why do you need Pressure Vacuum Vents? Do you know that just 60% of lint gets captured in lint trap of the commercial and residential clothes dryers? Other 40% of this lint gets vented outside. With time, damp lint starts accumulating inside the duct. As a result there is clogged pipe which gets restricted with time that might cause fire hazard.

Below are a few signs that the dryer vent may require cleaning

• When it takes a long time than just one cycle for the clothes to completely dry, or if clothes are hot once they dry, it’s a good sign that the vent needs to be cleaned


• When the clothes have musty smell even after drying


• When the dryer shuts off and stops during the cycle, element might be becoming too hot from duct retractor


• When there’s a good amount of lint from back of dryer


• When outside vent contains lint covering outside vent cover

Benefits of clean dryer vents

• Pressure Vacuum Vents helps in reducing the drying time of the laundry


• Avoid the cost of replacing the element of dryer


• Helps in improving quality of the dried clothes


• Helps in saving money on the utility bills


• Helps in preventing dryer fire

Steps to plan cleaning of the tank

1. Getting right tools- for this task you will require an extension hose and shop vac of minimum 10-15 feet, on the basis of length of dryer outside the dryer. Next, you need the flexible cables with brush at the end for snaking through ducts and the dusting mask as well as gloves for protecting yourself from airborne lint.


2. Disconnect the dryer from flexible ducts and clean back of the Flame Arresters or the dryer and lint which accumulate under dryer. Check flexible duct and then replace it with the new one when it’s damaged or gets holes. The very first part of this process would include running Pressure Vacuum Vents and flexible cable from inside the house by the dryer. Second part of this process includes same think from outside by the dryer vent which goes outside.


3. Run flexible snakes with the help of a brush through dryer venting duct. Be very careful that you don’t push past the turns or the angles which may cause cable to be stuck in ductwork or else you would have to face a very difficult time.


4. Locate where the dryer vents outside the house. Remove the dryer vents hardware for accessing the duct.


5. Repeat this process from outside, running the flexible into ducts and vacuum out loose lint. Follow it by simply hooking the dryer vents to flexible ducts inside the property and turn on the dryer, any kind of left out lint would help in blowing the duct out. Finally, you need to replace the hardware on outside the house.

You should not be surprised by lint amount that you vacuum away. In some of the cases you may remove some amount of lint.