Review on Smart House Inc Innovative Attachment by Michelle Miller

I rarely write reviews lately because people either get paid to do it (and I don't) or they're fake (it's not). In any case. I'm leaving this review because a family member recently had a house fire due to dryer lint. They're fine, thank goodness, but thousands of dollars in repairs and upgrades abound. So I began to become more aware of the seriousness of this problem. In my last apartment, the dryer was attached to the outside wall, so there was nothing to do but disconnect the dryer hose every now and then and dust the 8" hose to the outside. Easy.Fast forward to my newly built house for about a year and a half During assembly I actually took a picture of the dryer vent as I knew I would have to deal with dryer lint - ugh! The overall length of the dryer vent tube is about 25 feet and at about 10 feet it requires about a 115 degree turn So, about 3 months ago we noticed lint from the dryer outside of our house and some of the vents on the roof, we decided to get a leaf blower and used it to poke the inside of the lint tube into the dryer - we wrapped it in a towel to stop the air leak to stop, and left the blower on for maybe 2 minutes while we watched a few parts fly through the dryer. roof ventilation. I knew the lint was still stuck to the side panels of the vent and it bothered me, but I was just happy to remove some of the lint and allow airflow to keep the fire out. Then I started googling and found companies that clean these air vents. Starting at $150 depending on length of vent. No thank you! Then I saw these flexible DIY air vent cleaning kits. I have read countless reviews and sometimes posted reviews through deceptive review programs. This one fitted pretty well. So I took a chance and bought a 30ft kit to make sure it was long enough to get onto the roof. We disconnected the dryer hose and put the dryer aside. Things You'll Need: A drill, a pair of pliers (because the connections get really tight as you use them). We decided to wrap each fitting in a small piece of tape as I've read that the sections can come loose and get stuck in the pipe if you get it wrong. We slowly lifted one section at a time until we felt it touch the roof (it stopped moving). It took 19 sections to get to the top. What you need to do is determine the direction of the drill, that is the direction the rods will be tightened. and use ONLY that one direction it is in the vent tube all the time. If you point the drill in any other direction, the sections and brush will separate and get stuck. If you get it right you won't even need the tape we used as an extra precaution as the connections are so tight you'll need pliers to pull them apart. When we got to the top, we revved it up and started taking out the connectors one section at a time, rotating between each removal until we had them all removed. As you can see we didn't have a lot of stack. It's the lint that got stuck in the pipes when we blew the vent out a few months ago. I plan to do this at least once a year. This takes about an hour. I feel great knowing I can easily clean this long pipe and prevent a fire. After removing the last section, we took our outside fan and blew out the vent again. There was still some lint that came off the walls of the tube but didn't come out with the tool. So it was just an extra final boost of what was left. I hope my long review wasn't too boring. My main comment: Make sure you use the drill in the direction the rods will be tightened while the rods are in the vent. This is the only way to see this error if you are using the drill in the wrong direction.