Ensure your Smoke Alarm is Really Going to Detect a Fire!
A smoke alarm is a great safety feature to have in your home, assuming of course that it actually works. Smoke alarms are like any electronic device in that they are prone to failure. In order to keep your family safe, you need to test smoke alarm regularly, ensuring the battery and the smoke detection work.
We recently took challenge from a Milton homeowner whom needed to know where her dryer vent was located outside her home. 3 years in her 9 year old home, she’d just had the board in her dryer replaced and was told to check the dryer vent by the appliance technician. Basically the dryer had over heated and caused the board to malfunction. Normally a dryer would blow the thermal fuse or the heating element, this time the dryers control board went.
Back in November we took a call from Mark from Oakville wanting to replace his dryer vent hose. The basement was finished with about 24 feet of white vinyl hose from the back of the dryer to the outside wall vent cap. White vinyl hose should not be used at all and nothing other than solid metal duct work should be used inside the ceiling and walls.
Never seen these before? Neither had we until we started cleaning dryers with our dryer vent cleaning service. These lint balls grow inside your dryer when the lint has no place else to go, or the vents are starting to clog so lint cannot escape as fast as it needs to! These cute squishy, round things are an accumulation of lint inside the baffles that are on your dryer drum slowly getting bigger and bigger like a snowball only not as cold!