Why Your Lint Trap Is Not Catching Lint

No matter who you are in Dallas lint will always be part of the drying process – it’s inevitable. So it can be surprising when, after a cycle, you open your lint trap and realize there’s no lint in there. What happened? Why isn’t your lint trap collecting lint?

It’d be nice to believe this is happening because your clothes simply aren’t producing lint, but that can’t be the case. All that lint is going somewhere, and you need to figure out where. Too much lint buildup is a fire hazard, so you should find the lint’s location and hire a Dallas duct cleaning service before something ignites.

Check For Tears In The Lint Trap

Get the easiest culprit out of the way and see if the lint trap itself has any tears. These tears may be causing lint to go straight through the screen without collecting. Some of this lint may end up in the lint trap housing, while other pieces of it may end up on your clothes. But the lint trap itself won’t collect the lint as it should.

If the problem is simply a tear in the lint trap, get it replaced as soon as possible. If the lint trap isn’t collecting lint, the lint will end up in the dryer vent and start to build dangerously. Get a Dallas professional to clean out your dryer vent, too.

Check Your Lint Trap Housing

After affirming the trap itself is fine, look at your lint housing. The lint trap may have been overflowing after every cycle, causing a cache of lint to form around its housing. This lint could have blocked the new lint from getting into the lint trap. And if lint isn’t collecting in your lint trap, it’s likely building up in your dryer vents, putting Dallas at risk from a dryer vent fire.

Clear out anything you see in the lint trap housing, and call a Dallas duct cleaning professional to ensure that there’s no vent buildup happening on top of this.

Check Your Vent Intake

Look to see if the vent intake built into the dryer is clogged with lint. This could either indicate a clump accumulating right inside the dryer itself or a vent that’s so clogged it’s overflowing back into the dryer. If you see any lint buildup in the vent intake, remove as much of it as possible or contact a Dallas professional to do it for you.

If the vent intake is clogged, the lint can’t even get into the dryer vents and exit safely. The vent intake is dangerously close to heating machinery, too. Remove as much lint as you can before you put Dallas at risk.

Check The Dryer Vents

In all likelihood, your dryer vents are extremely clogged. Each of the previous scenarios is either caused by or potentially leads to clogged dryer vents, so checking the vents themselves was always inevitable. Our Dallas technicians can look at these vents for you if you’re unsure what to do, or you can check them out yourself. But they probably don’t look great.

You need to have your vents cleaned as soon as possible once you notice a problem. Contact Angel Duct Cleaning for dryer vent cleaning in Dallas and schedule a same-day appointment to get this out of the way.

FAQs

Why does my dryer vent keep getting clogged with lint?

Lint will always get produced with every dry cycle, and you need to have your dryer vent cleared of lint regularly. There’s no way to prevent this.

How do you unclog a dryer vent lint?

You can hire a professional Dallas dryer vent cleaning service to have your dryer vents professionally unclogged.

Why is my dryer blowing lint inside?

Your vent may be so clogged that it’s overflowing with lint. Have your dryer vent cleaned out as soon as possible.

How does lint get into the dryer vent?

While the dryer blows air that encourages lint to blow towards the lint trap, not all of it will end up in this direction. Sometimes it’ll get caught in the vent itself for whatever reason.

Where is dryer lint trapped?

You should have a lint trap just by the door of your dryer. It varies on every dryer model.