My Girlfriends aunt complained about her dishwasher not Wirkung properly the other day, GF asked Ehen was the last time you cleaned the filter? Aunt was linke the WHAT? She has owned dishwashers for 30+ years and never heard oft that.
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You want to write in English but your phone wants to write in German
yeah I realized too late I forgot to switch. Also for some reason I can never edit comments.
Some keyboards let's you set two input languages, also seems to do a great job at catching on to which language a given input is intended to be in.
certainly a unique language you got there
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I made it a few years before I learned it. When I was a kid we hand-washed, and it took a few years of renting before I caught on - not because of any labels or the like, but because of my troubleshooting a smell.
It's not obvious what it is if you don't already know about it, and if you don't install it yourself...
Lint trap is easy. Exhaust ducts are the real danger. Not only can lint build up in those, but critters like birds and mice can make nests in them which further blocks the airflow. Even if you have the outside vent gated off, they can get stuck open enabling access for critters into the duct. Clean out your ducts at least once a year.
It's absurd that building codes don't require some sort of inspection or access to the vent if it's not a simple straight-through-the-wall affair.
Slum lord gunna slum. I’d say many swap them out when new tenants move in
I'm also wondering "my what" upon hearing about furnace filters. As far as I can tell, my furnace has none. The "filter" is the size of the hole I chuck logs through. If log too big, it no go in.
I'm wondering what "furnace" entails too. I realize I'm showing my ass here but do they mean like the water boiler, or the heater? Do gas burners have filters?
In the US we refer to the large heater for central air conditioning to be the furnace whether it is gas or electric. The filter is on the blower that pushes the hot air around the house.
Interesting. We tend to heat with water in my part of the EU so that specific chore doesnt really exist here.
The HVAC system.
Depends where in the world you are I think. In the UK most people have combination water/heating natural gas boilers. Some places are on heating oil if you're out in the sticks (or in Northern Ireland which has a different system) and some modern houses are all-electric heat pump setups. We mostly have no air con which is becoming less tenable with climate change, and water-based radiators so nothing like a furnace in American systems.
“Why does it take 3 hours to dry my clothes when it used to take 40 minutes?” Or “why aren’t my clothes drying at all?”
Thise seems like it’s one or two loads away from house fire territory.
Sometimes it's just a shitty dryer that doesn't work that good anymore.
My last house I lived in for like 5 years and never found the furnace filter... I'm convinced it just didn't have one and the system was raw-dogging the dusty air. I checked the air return vent where I am used to them being, and I checked the furnace in the garage closet. I am glad I moved out before that became a problem...
Technology Connections told me about the filter in the bottom of the dishwasher, how cleaning that out can do wonders for the performance. And he said if you hadn't ever cleaned that he felt sorry for me when I would open it up and find out what's inside. I was afraid to, so I sold the dishwasher and got a new one. Checked the filter, clean as a whistle, disaster avoided.
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I saw one of these posts about ten years after buying a washer/dryer. So I checked mine. Absolutely nothing in it. What the hell are these people washing? Vacuum cleaner bags?
Not even a whole sock?
What are YOU washig?
Bro doesn't do laundry, bought the machine & never set it up
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my guess is, that those are combined dryer/washer machines. in my old place we had dedicated dryers, those could build up a felt just after one load.
currently we have a washer (non drying) and the filter is a small tube shaped thing under the main door. it never builds up much, except someone forgot some paper in their jeans...
Same, I was wondering how bad mine was after I finally found where it was. Barely anything 🤷
I rented a house once that the previous tenant had been living in for about a year with 3 little kids. She had mentioned to me that the dryer worked ok when she moved in but it wasn't working anymore. It still ran but it didn't really dry anything.
Not a big deal I thought. Went over to the dryer and took a look at it. First thing I did was pull the filter. It was clogged solid. She didn't even know it had a lint trap, never mind that you're supposed to clean it after every single load. Not only was the trap plugged, so was a bunch of the hose and ductwork. I spent several hours taking everything apart and cleaning it out, finally got it all back together, turned the dryer on, and it worked like a champ. Not a single problem for the 7 yrs I lived there.
She was a lady already in her thirties with 5 kids (3 lived with her)... you'd think she would have known how to use a dryer at that point. I'm just happy she never burnt the house down..
I genuinely think that you should take a class in highschool that teaches basic life skills like this. 1 class each year. It could cover cooking/nutrition, mental health, chores, financial literacy, First aid basics, etc. Then by the time thye graduate they have had 4 years of teaching about basic stuff like that. I bet it would save tons of lives.
This is a common opinion that never holds up. Kids' schedules are insanely bloated compared to a few decades ago and honestly, think about what would have been taught as "useful" at home 30 years ago and how much of that would still be in use today... Its just a waste of expensive teaching resources for something that anyone with a search engine can teach themselves.
We could call it something like Home Economics, or "Home Ec." for short.
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You dont have to clean lint traps at the laundromat. I wonder if this was her first in-house one
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Houses have furnaces now?
Newer machines will stop drying if the sense the filter is too full. Helpful for if you forget when doing a bunch of laundry, but if the sensor goes faulty, it'll be throwing errors regardless of how clean the duct or filter is.
If this is what her lint trap looks like, I can't imagine what the dryer vent looks like.
Btw, get your dryer vents cleaned out! Annually is ideal, but absolutely no more than every 3 years. A blocked dryer vent is a huge fire hazard.
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My sister in law refuses to clean the dryer filter, and also wants to be the one in charge of the laundry for her and her husband. Whenever I do a load of my clothes, I clean the filter and it's at least 10 layers of fire hazard
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I am that person who gets after my friends if they don't clean out the lint from their dryer every load of laundry.
I may be a pain in the ass, but my friends aren't gonna burn alive if I can help it!
I'm the kind of person who would give a fire extinguisher as a housewarming gift.
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