The cold and gray are here to stay for the next several months and that means your heavy coats, sweaters, blankets and flannel sheets are out of the storage bins and in full use. It’s always nice to have the extra warmth to help get you through these cold fall and winter days and nights. However, there is a downside to using all of these extra thick garments: you have to wash them all.

Even though you might not be washing more often, the number and size of your loads are likely to go up. Winter Clothes and blankets are typically thicker and heavier, which means your dryer is going to be working harder to get them dry. In addition, these clothing items are also made of cotton and wool, which puts more strain on your dryer. That’s because these materials create a lot of extra lint.

Even after just a few months all that extra lint can start to build up in your dryer vent hose, which can be a fire hazard. You might wonder if your dryer vent could be in danger of a fire right now. So when is a good time to get your dryer vent cleaned. In actuality it doesn’t matter what time of year you do it, so long as you get it cleaned once a year. So if you haven’t had it done in a year or more, then for you, now is the right time to clean your dryer vent.

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