05-18-2025, 10:34 PM
I"m waiting to see if anyone responds to my siding question, so I thought I'd share something a little more humorous.
My wife has been asking for the hood to be put on the dryer vent. I said I'd do it, there's no reason to remind me every six months. So the new hood went on last weekend, after I cleared out the half built birds nest just inside.
"The dryer isn't venting right, the little door only opens halfway. I think it's still blocked up."
Reminded again this weekend; "Can you fix the dryer vent please? I can feel the humidity in the basement."
O.k., I've got some long lengths of 2" hose in the shop. Doesn't fit the Shop-vac, but I've got 3 lengths of vac hose and 6 of these wands. That should reach. There's about 20' of 4" sched. 20 pipe to an elbow aimed down to the dryer elbow. Should be easy now! (No. Not usually.)
Somehow between last week and this, the brushes on the Shop vac wore down enough to warrant getting another Shop vac. O.k., now we're ready to go. Went well. Too well? Something must be wrong, that was too easy. I checked the previously empty vac to find some, but not as much debris as I would expect, so I proceeded to replace the infamous vent hood. All was well. However; as I was packing up the two shop vacs I realized there were two wands missing. Find a flashlight, bright enough to shine 20' into the pipe. There they are. Next come the semi-rigid fiberglass snakes (the 3' sections screw together) with a hook fashioned to the end. Caught the wands on the second try. Gently pulling them out they're stuck on something. A little harder. A little more. Something moved a few inches then stopped again. Ahhh, that was... No please not.... Yep. I pulled the pipes apart in the ceiling. When I opened up the ceiling the pipes were separated by about 2" and the end of the wand was right there too. After some re-assembly, that vent hood went on for the third time.
So, in summary, that dryer vent has been there for over 20 years and it hasn't been cleaned before. If the vent hood wasn't off for almost a year, a bird wouldn't have thought it was a good place to raise its family and it still wouldn't have needed a cleaning.
What can I say? "I'm a guy. I fix things and I know stuff. You shouldn't have waited so long to remind me?"
Yea, that'll go well!
My wife has been asking for the hood to be put on the dryer vent. I said I'd do it, there's no reason to remind me every six months. So the new hood went on last weekend, after I cleared out the half built birds nest just inside.
"The dryer isn't venting right, the little door only opens halfway. I think it's still blocked up."
Reminded again this weekend; "Can you fix the dryer vent please? I can feel the humidity in the basement."
O.k., I've got some long lengths of 2" hose in the shop. Doesn't fit the Shop-vac, but I've got 3 lengths of vac hose and 6 of these wands. That should reach. There's about 20' of 4" sched. 20 pipe to an elbow aimed down to the dryer elbow. Should be easy now! (No. Not usually.)
Somehow between last week and this, the brushes on the Shop vac wore down enough to warrant getting another Shop vac. O.k., now we're ready to go. Went well. Too well? Something must be wrong, that was too easy. I checked the previously empty vac to find some, but not as much debris as I would expect, so I proceeded to replace the infamous vent hood. All was well. However; as I was packing up the two shop vacs I realized there were two wands missing. Find a flashlight, bright enough to shine 20' into the pipe. There they are. Next come the semi-rigid fiberglass snakes (the 3' sections screw together) with a hook fashioned to the end. Caught the wands on the second try. Gently pulling them out they're stuck on something. A little harder. A little more. Something moved a few inches then stopped again. Ahhh, that was... No please not.... Yep. I pulled the pipes apart in the ceiling. When I opened up the ceiling the pipes were separated by about 2" and the end of the wand was right there too. After some re-assembly, that vent hood went on for the third time.
So, in summary, that dryer vent has been there for over 20 years and it hasn't been cleaned before. If the vent hood wasn't off for almost a year, a bird wouldn't have thought it was a good place to raise its family and it still wouldn't have needed a cleaning.
What can I say? "I'm a guy. I fix things and I know stuff. You shouldn't have waited so long to remind me?"
Yea, that'll go well!
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