Dryers a warning....

[Hicky]

Ok, so Ms Hicky informs me the dryer is making groaning noises and bouncing around like a madman....upon inspection the shaft has snapped and the bearing gone too....£16.50 later and a bearing/shaft kit is on order....however, the volume of lint inside the dryer was very very worrying. Totally covering all the inside and more so the heating element.
If you have a vented dryer, please take the top off and have a gander....it will take at best 10 mins.
Ours was a fire waiting to happen....the image was two Dyson loads later.

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[johnnyb47]

Wow that's a shocking and scary sight

 

[Beebo]

Tumble driers should never be left unattended. And never working ever while you are asleep.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Ok, so Ms Hicky informs me the dryer is making groaning noises and bouncing around like a madman....upon inspection the shaft has snapped and the bearing gone too....£16.50 later and a bearing/shaft kit is on order....however, the volume of lint inside the dryer was very very worrying. Totally covering all the inside and more so the heating element.
If you have a vented dryer, please take the top off and have a gander....it will take at best 10 mins.
Ours was a fire waiting to happen....the image was two Dyson loads later.

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That really is a concern. We run ours almost exclusively on the cool cycle to " soften up " towels after drying on the clothes line/ clothes horse. It doesn't necessarily need an electrical arc to start a fire, the friction from a mechanical failure could equally be the cause. We have a lint filter on our 25 year old Philips. It also lives in the outhouse. Of particular concern is that it's right next to my beer fridge 😮

 

[Dadam]

Tumble driers should never be left unattended. And never working ever while you are asleep.

I'm guessing you don't have a teenage daughter in the house!

 

[Cycleops]

And I thought the title was 'Drivers a warning'.

 

[johnnyb47]

Blimey,
With the combination of tumble dryers and Ebike batteries in the house where all doomed 🥴

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Over 30 years ago my ex-wife walked in to the kitchen whilst I was at work to see some wisps of smoke coming from the tumble dryer area. She immediately switched it off at the wall. Being pregnant at the time she wasn’t willing to try and pull the machine out so called the local fire station (not 999) and asked for assistance.

The station was very close to home so moments later they arrived at the door, came inside and pulled the machine from where it was sitting. They then removed the top to inspect inside just in case. Despite only being a few years old the fluff inside was incredible. Cleaning it out became an annual task.

 

[ianrauk]

In our block of apartments, shops and offices at work. A Gym's tumble driers has caught fire a couple of times. Once causing some serious damage. It's a massive worry for the residents.

 

[biggs682]

We don't have a tumble dryer

 

[johnnyb47]

I've got an old Creda tumble dryer but I never use it..With the cost of electricity it puts me right off using it..In the winter I just hang my clothes on the airer and use a dehumidifier in the room

 

[presta]

One advantage of a washer dryer is that the air, and all the fluff it contains is confined within a recirculating loop of duct, and the water in the condenser tends to blot it up before it gets to the heating elements.

Inside my old one after 9 years use:

 

[oldwheels]

Tumble driers should never be left unattended. And never working ever while you are asleep.

Washing machines similar. Our went on fire due to a failed solenoid and no water got in. Fortunately my wife was at home and detected the fire pretty quickly.
Chatting to the fire brigade chief after he said it was not an uncommon occurence in his experience.

 

[Kingfisher101]

My tumble dryer was once shaking and roasting hot so I obviously turned it off and pulled the plug out. Lint had built up in the condenser at the bottom and I hadn't been taking this out and washing it on a regular basis. I do now after that.
It's such a pain having to pull it out and fiddle to get it back in the drawer, but its preferable to a house fire!
A house near me burned down today.

 

[Drago]

It's such a pain having to pull it out and fiddle to get it back in the drawer...

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