Few household chores are as crucial and often overlooked as cleaning the lint trap in your clothes dryer. The lint trap is used to catch the majority of the lint from your laundry before it gets into ...

You know the basics of how to clean a dryer. In fact, you clear the lint trap on your dryer after every load and even use a lint brush to remove the excess fuzz that slips through the cracks. But ...

When it comes to home maintenance, one of the most neglected appliances might be the clothes dryer. Outside of discarding the lint (which you should always do, by the way), learning how to clean a ...

Dryer fires tend to rise during the winter months as thicker clothing and blankets are washed and dried more frequently. Fire ...

Is your dryer not drying your clothes all of a sudden? Take these steps to find the problem and fix your machine.

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Cassidy was an updates editor whose main responsibility is to write and edit ...

All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by Architectural Digest editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate ...

Cleaning and properly maintaining a major appliance like a dryer is critical to optimizing its performance and to ensuring the safety of your household. Dryers need routine maintenance to keep them ...

Why should you worry about lint buildup in your clothes dryer and its vent? The most obvious reason why is because removing the lint means your dryer will dry clothes more quickly and thus save you ...

The clothes dryer is found in almost every home. We use it weekly if not daily. Its main purpose is to take the heat and moisture out of your clothes. If clothing is still damp at the end of a typical ...

Tumble dryers are a home appliance that many of us take for granted. We toss damp clothes in, and we get dry clothes out. End of story. But that’s not where the tale ends for some unfortunate ...