Dryer fires happen and they happen more often than we are lead to believe. At dryer vent cleaner in the lead up to Christmas we had 3 customers who had dryer fires inside their dryer all because there were issues with there dryer vent and how they were installed.
Your clothes dryer accounts for a huge 12% of the electrical power used in an average household, and that’s when the vent is not plugged! With a vent that’s plugged and you’re running the dryer 2 or 3 times you can easily see why you have a high hydro bill! If you are running your dryer on the sensor dry setting, where it decides when the clothes are dry, you probably don’t even know how long it takes to dry your clothes?
Dryer fires happen, there are over 15,000 each year in North America. In Ontario we do not hear them mentioned very often but ask most people and they know someone who has had a dryer fire!
Following 2 recent dryer fires in Hamilton, Ontario we put together this video that shows how and why dryer fires happen.
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