Every week the whole weekend in LA! Your old dryer becomes worn and ceases to function. After 3 loads of jeans, the top has grown too warm to wear, and you’ve decided that you are finally rid of it. You take off down to a large box retailer, purchase a gorgeous, Wi-Fi enabled smart dryer that costs $1200, and have it delivered! The delivery men roll it in, connect it and then go. You put the first washing machine load into it, hit the button and wait a hour. Buzzer rings. You open the door. And all your clothes are even wet. You just bought an all new appliance and it’s producing the same exact results as the one you had. The first thought that springs to mind is, “buy this back they sold me a ‘lemon’?”The first response is to telephone the store and ask for a refund since this is to buy the “lemon.” Please don’t make purchase calls at this time. You didn’t have to purchase a broken machine. Just installed a new engine on a clogged exhaust pipe.
The Appliance Graveyard
Our perspective as vent techs is that we see this situation quite often. Individuals dispose of good working dryers due to wrong diagnosis of issues. In the case of a dryer that used to be in full working order, but seemed to take two hours to dry a load of towels, it’s likely that the bleeding problem was not the cause of the leak. The motor was likely to be in good shape. Things were getting pretty hot in the machine. Driers expel a tremendous amount of wet, hot air. That moist air just strikes a wall, reflects and gets stuck within the spinning drum if the ductwork, located in the walls, has been blocked by 5 years of lint. Your old device were unable to breathe. If the wall vent is not cleaned then replacing the machine does not require anything to change. You simply connected a brand new pair of lungs in an obstructed breathing passage.
Why Smart Dryers Actually Perform Worse
Here are the bits that make people living their homes mad. In some cases, the newly installed represents an even worse method of drying than the previous one was. The 1990s and early 2000s saw the manufacture of dryers that were basically large metal boxes, with a large heating coil in them. They were dumb. If it was obstructed with cooking debris, they didn’t mind. They would simply continue to heat the drum until items inside the drum finally dried, if they didn’t cook to be oned to the point of catching fire. Modern dryers come in a variety of brands and models and are extremely smart, especially at the LG, Samsung and Whirlpool brands. They have built-in thermistors and moisture sensors. A “clogged wall vent detector” safety program is triggered when a modern dryer detects heat backing up from the wall vent, indicating it is clogged. The computer will switch off the heating element instead of a fire, to prevent damage to the home. The drum continues to rotate which makes it appear as though it is working but in reality it is only tumbling your clothing through cold air. There is nothing wrong with your new smart dryer. It’s really just what it is designed to do: to prevent your house from burning.
The “Delivery Guy” Trap
Another significant problem is on the day of delivery. Consider how much of the work appliance delivery crews need to do, assembling those heavy boxes in record time. Are not HVAC technicians.They install the new machine, snapping on a low-cost, pliable foiled pipe to connect to your wall.
Modern machines generally have a greater depth than the older ones and the delivery people simply push the heavy machine back against the wall so it fits. As they go they flatten the foil hose completely as shown in the picture above.If your wall pipes are clean and free of any debris, a crushed transition hose will shut off the flow at will.
The Fix is Cheaper Than a Restocking Fee
Most large brands will charge huge restocking fees of 15-25% if you attempt to return an appliance already used. You will have to lose hundreds of dollars and they’ll send you a new machine that will break exactly the same. No returns or exchanges of the machine. Fix the infrastructure. Dryer Vent Now is a business built around appliance installations, and resetting air flow. Boarded up with that crushed foil junk by you won’t we take it out, install hard, code-compliant metal ductwork and ensure air velocity is correct so that the new machine works as you paid for it to!