How To Clean Inside A Bosch 500 Series Dryer

Well, we bought that Lint Eater from Smarthome.com hoping this would become the lint out of our ducts. We were told that lint stuck in the dryer duct was the problem that prevented our Bosch 500 from working and erroring out (E:01) every few minutes. For $55 we got the lint eater and tryed information technology merely it kept getting stuck from both ends in the duct: outside the dwelling going in and inside going out. I thought it was getting defenseless on the duct itself. Male child was I wrong. Later on 2 extrememly frustrating hours I gave up, packaged it support and sent information technology back to Smarthome.

I reluctantly called the dryer duct people in my surface area thinking the $119 they charge was alot. They came the very side by side day, started cleaning out the 23 ft long dryer vent to the outside with compressed air I recollect information technology was, when information technology got stuck too! You couldn't imagine how much lint came out of in that location before it got stuck. It was stuffed with 19 years of dryer lint! Here'southward a pic of the duct cleaning guy in the pitch blackness cleaning up the mess when he was washed. It filled 25% of a large trash bag.

Here's some leaves mixed in with the lint he picked upwards subsequently information technology was blown out backside the house:

Here's the bag on our garage floor filled upward 25%:

I was in stupor that in that location was so much lint in there. He kept trying and trying, came inside and had to start it again inside with some other compressed air device. It got stuck again but he never gave up. Finally, a TON of lint came out and now the dryer works perfectly. So much air at present comes out of the dryer vent backside our dwelling house, information technology'due south amazing how little came out before in comparison.

He said it was a very unsafe situation and our sometime machine could take easily started a fire. I am so relieved our Bosch 500 works now. If it wasn't for the Bosch technology and it'southward disturbing erroring out later a minute of then of apply each time, we never would have idea to have our duct cleaned out.

Thanks to all you lot and be forewarned, if y'all accept an older home similar ours (built in 1987) and never cleaned your dryer duct, I HIGHLY recommend yous practise this and soon! It might take a professional if information technology's been a long time. Now I'm considering having our heater/A/C whole house ducts cleaned also. They want another $190 for that. Yet not certain... The heat works fine.