My dryer takes forever to dry my clothes, whats wrong?
To best answer this question let me first give you a brief explanation of how your dryer works. When you turn on your dryer the drum starts to tumble and then the burner kicks on to provide heat inside the drum to dry the clothes. That hot, moist air then gets expelled through the dryer vent to the outside. A clothes dryer just like a furnace has a “high limit switch” which is an emergency shut down switch that prevents the appliance from overheating. The reason I mention this is because a clogged or blocked dryer vent can cause the high limit switch to be tripped. So let’s go back to the original question, “what’s wrong?” Although the problem of the clothes not drying could be a myriad of things, one of the most common is a clogged or blocked dryer vent. This is what happens You turn the dryer on, the drum begins to tumble, the burner turns on and because the vent is clogged the hot, moist air can’t escape. The dryer gets hotter and hotter until the high limit switch is triggered whic
