How To Clean Dryer Exhaust From Dead Animal

How-do-you-do all,

So in the past calendar week or so, we started noticing an awful rancid smell in the laundry room. At first I thought it was the washing automobile then I cleaned out the drain filter and ran a tub clean. It certainly smelled bad but I soon realized that the smell I was smelling was emanating from our dryer! I unhooked the vent hose tonight and besides vacuumed the lint filter in the dryer - when I get out the dryer door closed, and so open it after erstwhile, it seems like the smell lingers. Just if I run a cycle with the hose pointed up (recycling the air back into the laundry room) there'south no nasty smell that I can detect at least. With the duct vent (going to the exterior) exposed, I took a whiff and it smells terrible... like something crawled in in that location and died. Nosotros've also been noticing more small gnats and flies inside our identify - not certain if this could exist flies feeding on the carcass of whatever rodent is possibly down there.

Equally far equally blockages, nosotros haven't noticed drying times taking much longer just then again we oasis't paid attention so much... my wife usually does the laundry too and so I would know fifty-fifty less but she says she hasn't noticed it taking any longer to dry out dress. This last batch of clothes smelled awful - information technology's as of the smell is getting redirected back into the dryer or something. I went exterior to where the vent exhaust is and there's definitely airflow (it'due south further abroad from the dryer with 90 caste bends forth the mode so it never has been the strongest flow). I noticed the odour coming out from in that location also though while running the dryer.

I'm planning to call a company that specializes in cleaning out dryer ducts and rodent removal, but does this definitely sound similar a rodent or something crawled in there and died? For the heck of information technology, I picked up one of those cheapo endoscopes and am going to try snaking it in to see if I can see anything. Nosotros're in a downstairs condo unit of measurement, and at that place's no directly access to the duct work itself. Trying to run fish tape through wasn't very successful from the laundry room. I may try fish tape + snake camera from the outside frazzle vent. I noticed what appears to be some sort of nutshell (like an acorn or something) when digging out the space from the exhaust - whoever designed the placement of it did a poor chore as there'south no clearance and the hood hits the dirt. I had to shovel the dirt away for clearance...

Something else I was curious about is if I should look for a contractor who specializes in dryer vent/duct cleaning vs a full general duct cleaner (who does everything from air vents/ducts to dryer ducts/vents as well).

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