Our dryer maintenance program is designed to:

·          Eliminate Dryer Fires *below 

·          Reduce Repair Expense. 

·          Save Energy.  (Go Green) 

·          Reduce your appliance replacement expense. 

Besides all the benefits you gain in energy conservation, reduced maintenance and premature replacement expense by simply maintaining your appliance you can be taking your family off the death and or fire statistics.  For example the US Consumer Products Safety Commission published May 2003 that in 1998 there were approximately 15,600 clothes dryer fires resulting in 20 deaths, 370 injuries and 75.4 million in property damage.   

The following are some of the conditions that can occur, (as described in the CPSC report referenced above), that can only be fixed thru proper maintenance.  

·      Lint begins to accumulate inside a dryer chassis upon first use. Lint accumulates on  

the dryer’s components, including the heater and the dryer floor. This accumulation occurs even when the dryer’s lint screen has been cleaned after each usage, and the dryer is properly exhausted. 

·      Seals in the dryer’s interior exhaust venting may not be adequate to prevent linty air from escaping into the dryer’s interior. 

·      Lint that accumulates on the heater housing can easily ignite under conditions of a failed high-limit thermostat and a blocked exhaust vent.  

·      Lint accumulating near the heater intake can ignite before the high-limit thermostat switches the heater element off.  

·      Lint ingested by the heater and embers expelled from the heater outlet can easily ignite additional lint or fabric in the air stream, resulting in additional embers in the dryer system and exhaust vent.  

·      The CPSC staff noted the following during testing and analysis:  

·      The high-limit thermostat may prematurely fail when subjected to high ambient temperatures. 

·      The temperatures measured inside the heater box, heater intake, and intake into the tumbler increased when the exhaust vent was partially blocked or fully blocked. The temperatures inside the tumbler, blower and exhaust vent decreased when the exhaust vent was partially blocked or fully blocked. 

·      When the exhaust vent was blocked up to 50 percent, the temperatures inside the dryer were similar to those measured when there was no blockage of the exhaust vent. When the exhaust vent was 75 percent or 100 percent blocked, temperatures in certain areas inside the dryer increased significantly. 

·      In general, the dryers only cycled on the high-limit thermostat when the exhaust vent was 75 or 100 percent blocked, which caused the temperatures near the heater to increase significantly. 

·      When the primary thermostat was bypassed (simulating a thermostat failure), the dryer operated at higher than normal temperatures – temperatures similar to those measured when the exhaust vent was blocked 50 to 75 percent. In general (3 of the 4 dryer designs tested), a failed-closed primary thermostat did not cause the dryer to cycle on the high limit thermostat for the unblocked exhaust vent condition. 

·      In CPSC Report 2.2.4.1 they state- à  It was observed that the exhaust vent airflow (V2) steadily decreased as the dryer operated. This was caused by the lint screen progressively becoming blocked with lint.   

You may access the 148 page full report by Click Here.

A Bargain Appliance Repair has a maintenance program tailored to eliminate these potential problems and reduce your monthly out of pocket expense.  Even though we will be in 50 metropolitan cities across the US very soon we obviously cannot service the whole nation just yet.   However the more request for our service the quicker we will be able to gear up in your community.   

What we can offer all of America is a wake-up call to action.  We are recommending that the first quarter and into the 2^nd quarter before the summer heat begins, each year that you have your appliances maintained.  We will be sending out e-mail reminders to remind you it is time along with any up to date news bulletins related to potentials threats associated with certain appliances. 

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