You risk a serious dryer fire when lint, poor materials, or a blocked, long run restricts airflow. Replace plastic or foil ...

Q. In a recent issue of our newspaper, one of your fellow writers said it was OK to vent an electric (NOT GAS) dryer indoors to gain heat and humidity with an indoor-outdoor venting system. I thought ...

A dryer vent with lots of lint buildup inside it - Ursula Page/Shutterstock Cleaning your dryer vent might not be on your weekly chore list, but every now and again, there comes a time when you wish ...

Q: We bought a new town house in 2007. It has a stacked washer/dryer set located in a utility closet that backs onto the interior shared wall of the third floor. The dryer is an electric model, which ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Cassidy was an updates editor whose main responsibility is to write and edit ...

We are in a row house and the dryer has never been vented properly. I’ve got two questions: 1) What kind of person would we call to vent our dryer properly? A gas dryer. This means boring a hole in ...

Q: I’m hoping you can help me with a design problem we are having with the location of the dryer in my home. We live in a berm house with a slab foundation, and the laundry is roughly 10 feet from an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dryer vent coming out of a brick exterior wall - Robbie Becklund/Shutterstock You pull your dryer away from the wall for the first ...

You just moved into your new home yesterday and it is already time to wash clothes. The first load of laundry is complete and you throw it into the dryer. You connected the dryer exhaust outlet to a ...

Cleaning and properly maintaining a major appliance like a dryer is critical to optimizing its performance and to ensuring the safety of your household. Dryers need routine maintenance to keep them ...

Cleaning a dryer vent is a pesky task, but it's necessary to prevent damage or possible house fires. That's why dryer vent cleaning companies are so vital and potentially lucrative. Running your own ...