Flat hose
Enters the lint trap slot and follows the bend
The reach60 day guarantee
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“now my dryer gets hot again”Review of this style of kit
Fifteen minutes, no panels removed
“my vacuum pulled out years' worth of buildup that had been sitting there unnoticed”Review of this style of kit
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Dryer vent cleaning kit
The lint screen is a filter.Not a seal.15 MINUTES
Pull the screen out and look at the slot it came from. That cavity has no drain and no access panel, and everything the screen is too coarse to catch has been falling into it since the machine was new.
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What changes
- A flat hose that enters the lint trap slot a round tool cannot.
- A stretch sleeve that seals to the vacuum you already own.
- Brushes for the round duct run behind the machine.
- Fifteen minutes, no panels removed, nothing pulled from the wall.
- Hose profile
- Flat, flexible
- Connection
- Stretch sleeve over your vacuum hose
- Powered by
- Your vacuum
- Hose length
- Confirming with the supplier
- Inner height
- Confirming with the supplier
- Sleeve fit range
- Confirming with the supplier
- Piece count
- Confirming with the supplier
It does not clean the full duct run to the outside wall, and it has no suction of its own. It attaches to your vacuum.
Free over $79, otherwise $9.95. Orders leave in 1 to 2 business days and arrive in 7 to 12.
Sixty days. Use it on the real thing first.
Uses your own vacuum
No panels removed
1 to 2 day dispatch
60 day guarantee
In the field
It does not stop at the dryer
Fridge coils, radiator sections, window tracks, sliding door rails, between and under couch cushions, under low furniture, and the tight spots in a car a crevice tool is too wide to enter.
The kit
Two shapes, two jobs
The flat hose takes the lint trap well, where the shape is flat and suction is what removes. The brushes take the round duct run behind the machine, where the shape is round and reach is what matters.
Stretch sleeve
Grips your vacuum hose by tension so the joint does not leak
The sealLong brush
The round duct run behind the machine
The reachHand brush
The vent mouth and the screen slot edges
The detail
What we will not claim
- No universal fit. The reviews record at least one vacuum it does not fit.
- No dryer fire statistic. Not one, anywhere on this site.
- No percentage of lint removed, and no airflow figure.
- No full duct run to the outside wall. That is a professional's job.
Hose length, inner height and the sleeve's fit range are all being confirmed with the supplier. Until they come back in writing you will not find those numbers here.
The part you cannot see
The screen is a filter, not a seal. What passes through it drops into a well with no way out.
That cavity has never been cleaned in the life of most machines, because nothing anyone owns will go into it. It is not a maintenance failure. It is a shape problem.
The mechanism of the problem
The Blind Well
Under the removable screen is a narrow vertical cavity. It has no drain, no access panel and no airflow strong enough to clear itself, so everything fine enough to pass the mesh falls in and stays.
The reason none of your tools reached the bottom is geometric, not effort. The well is flat and narrow, and almost every tool aimed at it is round and rigid. A crevice tool wedges at the mouth. A rigid wand stops at the bend.
You were pushing a round object into a flat hole.
The mechanism of the answer
The flat path, and the seal
The hose is flat rather than round in cross section, and flexible enough to follow the bend at the bottom of the well without collapsing under suction. It enters the slot the way a round tool cannot.
The stretch sleeve at the top rolls back over your own vacuum hose and grips by tension, so the suction arrives at the tip instead of leaking at the joint. A flat hose with a leaking joint has no suction where it matters.
The power is yours. We only sell the reach.
What it looks like
The first time, and every month after
The first time is the one people photograph. Years of packed lint out of a machine that looked clean, often a full canister.
After that it is a fifteen minute job on a schedule. People put it next to the smoke alarm check rather than treat it as a repair.
It is not a gadget that gets used once. That is the most common thing reviewers say about this kind of kit.
How to use it
Three steps and one warning
If you have never taken a daily pill in your life, this is about the most we would ask of you. Put the bottle next to the coffee and it takes care of itself.
Pull the screen out
Lift the lint screen and look at the slot it came from. That is the cavity.
Sleeve over your vacuum hose
Roll the stretch sleeve back over the end of your own hose so the joint is sealed.
Reach the bottom
Feed the flat hose into the slot and let it follow the bend. Take your time on the first pass.
Against the alternatives
Why nothing else reached the bottom
Named by category rather than by brand, because the comparison is with the shape of the tool.
| This kit | Rigid plastic wand | Crevice tool | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shape | Flat, enters the slot | Round, wedges at the mouth | Too wide to enter |
| The bend | Follows it | Stops at it | Does not reach it |
| What comes out | Suction removes it | Pushes it deeper | Never gets there |
| The duct run | The near section | Some of it | None of it |
From the reviews
What people say came out
These are reviews of this style of kit rather than of ours, and they are quoted exactly as written. We have no rating of our own to show you yet, so there is not one on this page.
my first use of just in the dryer I got a whole coffee can full of lint that was stuck in the bottom you could not access
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now my dryer gets hot again
Review of this style of kit
I tried the little brushes and they just flicking dust all over
Review of this style of kit
Last year I paid a guy $180 to clean out my dryer vent. He suggested a yearly visit.
Review of this style of kit
The amount of lint that came out of my 'clean' lint area was insane!
Review of this style of kit
Sixty days to disagree with us
Use it on your own dryer, not on a test. If the canister comes back empty and the job was done properly, that is a passed inspection rather than a failed purchase, and we will still make it right.
Questions
The ones worth answering
The sleeve stretches over a range of hose diameters rather than clipping to one size. We are not going to tell you it fits every vacuum, because the reviews for this style of kit record at least one it does not. If it will not fit yours, that is what the sixty days are for.
No. It handles the lint trap cavity and the near section of the run, which is the part that fills fastest. The full run to the outside wall is a professional's job.
We are confirming that with the supplier and will publish it when we have it in writing. We would rather leave a gap than print a number we cannot stand behind.
People do buy it for that reason and they say so in their reviews. We do not print fire statistics, because we do not have any we can source.
Unplug the dryer before cleaning around it. This attaches to a household vacuum and has no power of its own. It cleans the lint trap cavity and the near section of the duct, not the full run to the outside wall, and it is not a substitute for a professional duct cleaning where one is needed.
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