No heat, takes forever to dry, strange noises and dryer vent maintenance for fire safety.
Before you pay for a service call, run through these five checks yourself. One of them fixes about a third of the no-heat dryer calls we get in Arlington.
If a load of laundry is taking two cycles to get dry, the cause is almost certainly airflow — and the fix is usually simpler than you think.
Clogged dryer vents cause thousands of home fires every year. Here's how to clean yours properly in about an hour, once a year.