{"id":277,"date":"2021-03-10T00:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T00:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2021-03-10T00:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T00:38:32","slug":"check-your-dryer-vent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Check your dryer vent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured-1024x535.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured-1536x803.png 1536w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured-1040x544.png 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured-640x335.png 640w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured.png 1840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When your clothes dryer says &#8220;check vent&#8221; you really should.  In this case the outside vent cap was unobstructed.  But the dryer insisted.  I pulled the dryer away from the wall to disconnect the flex duct and discovered it packed with straw \u2013 apparently by a bird that thought it would make a cozy nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Blocked-Dryer-vent-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280\" width=\"458\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Blocked-Dryer-vent-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Blocked-Dryer-vent-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Blocked-Dryer-vent-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Blocked-Dryer-vent-1536x1175.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Blocked-Dryer-vent-2048x1566.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Blocked-Dryer-vent-1040x795.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Blocked-Dryer-vent-640x489.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I pulled out a giant wad of grass, cleaned the flex duct, reconnected it, and thought that was the end of the matter.  &#8220;Check vent&#8221; came on again.  This time I reached deep into the vent on the dryer side and pulled out another foot-long plug of woven grass!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Found-in-dryer-vent-1024x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Found-in-dryer-vent-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Found-in-dryer-vent-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Found-in-dryer-vent-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Found-in-dryer-vent-1536x847.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Found-in-dryer-vent-1040x573.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Found-in-dryer-vent-640x353.jpg 640w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Found-in-dryer-vent.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to your appliances!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Appliances keep getting smarter","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-handyman","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dryer-Airflow-Indicator-Featured.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}