I Stopped My Dryer From Catching On Fire And All I Got Was This Cranky Baby
I had a plan. It was going to go smoothly. I was going to do laundry today, and then everything would be clear tomorrow for me to start working on my Spring Cleaning. It started out okay enough. I sorted the laundry, got the whites through the washer, and even started drying them before it all fell apart. A couple minutes into the dryer, and the laundry room started to smell like something was burning. Since I hadn't started washing the next load yet, it was obviously coming from the dryer. So I turned off the dryer, and climbed over it to make sure that nothing was on fire. I didn't see any smoke or burning flames, and yet the smell persisted. Hoping really badly that whatever was causing the smell would be easily fixed, I googled "burning smell dryer" and discovered that this is usually caused by a lint buildup (or wiring damage, which I really hoped it wasn't). Okay. That seems fair, and lint has been gathering in several crevices of the laundry room f...