Hardwood floor design

Anyone thinking this is a great product be careful. That opinion will change when the rod breaks and you have to not only clean the vent from dust but also fish the brush out of the vent.

Ten minutes into the job and while pushing the brush by hand two rod lengths into the dryer vent (no drill even brought out yet – just by hand) the rod snapped (clean right angle perpendicular breaks 4 inches apart) in not one but two places within 8 inches of the brush. I was just running it up the vent pipe by hand. Then I spent the next two hours fishing the brush out of the vent pipe.

The manufacturers web site is deliberately infecting site visitors. Even the major search engines have a warning against visiting the site. Thank goodness I have excellent virus and spyware protection.

Rating: 1 / 5

My wife had been complaining (and probably running up our electric bill significantly) for the last few months about it taking 3 cycles to dry towels.

We’ve got the most bizarre dryer vent around. It goes down in the laundry room floor for 3 feet, then under the slab foundation for 18 feet, then back up in the exterior wall for 4 feet where it exits in the brick outside. She called around and was quoted $150-200 for a duct company to come out and clean our dryer vent. I immediately started searching for a better way and discovered this product and ordered it, along with the extensions.

Following the instructions, I hooked up my vacuum inside while trying to go outside with the brush, extension and drill. The unit made the first 90degree turn easily to go down 4 feet, but unfortunately, could not make the second 90degree turn to continue under the slab. I actually twisted up my second rod and ruined one segment. Regrouping, I instead took my leaf blower/vac and duct taped the vacuum side of it to the vent outside. Going inside, I inserted the rod and brush and stretched down with my arm to make the first 90degree turn below the laundry room with my arm. From there I continued adding segments cleaning towards the outside until I reached that last 90 turn in the exterior wall. I knew I could go no further so accepted it as done. I also used the thinner brush to clean inside the dryer itself as far as it would reach and pulled out a lot…a lot of lint.

My shop vac did not have the same hose size as the attachment that came with the unit so I had to re-engineer the connection using duct tape to get a tight fit, but then found that my leaf vac had much more suction power and opted to use it instead, in my own configuration, not exactly matching anything they suggested in their book or DVD. The DVD accompanying the product is actually very clear with recommended alternatives.

Irregardless of my difficulties due to the insane duct design, my wife did a huge load of towels and wow, it made all the difference. One cycle and dry! And you wouldn’t believe what was sucked out of the duct!!!

It’s amazing what can make a wife happy these days!

Rating: 4 / 5

This dryer vent cleaner is just what I needed. It worked every bit as advertized, cleaning out caked globs of lint. Our dryer was simply not working, and this fixed that and saved money form the additional drying times. I bought the extension kit with and am very pleased with both.

The one disappointment is that the diameter of the flexible shaft is too large for my 25 year-old drill. (Newer drills evidently open wider.) This necessitates my cleaning the vent repeatedly by hand. This works, and the brush is stiff enough to clean most (after several insertions) of the lint without the spinning motion.

The product came with a shop-vac attacthment for blowing lint out. As more households have conventional vacuum hoses than shop vacs, this is a useless inclusion to me.

Local “big box” hardware stores having nothing like this in stock. I am very pleasee with the product and the vendor. This product will pay for itself in reduced drying times in due course.
Rating: 5 / 5