Dryer Vent Vacuum Cleaner Attachment
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Dryer Vent Vacuum Cleaner Attachment
Customer Review: GOOD CONCEPT BUT DOESN'T WORK
Summary: 1 Stars
Due to the length of the hose, it has to be folded up for shipping and arrives with kinks in it. The kinked areas close up and cut off the suction from the vacuum so the lint cannot be sucked up through the hose. The lint just got stuck in the end of the hose and wouldn't go up the hose into the vacuum.Customer Review: HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT
Summary: 5 Stars
Our dryer is about 3 years old so imagine our surprise when it stopped heating. My boyfriend did research on line and decided to try this product. I have never heard of having to clean an entire duct system for the dryer, but he got an entire grocery bag filled with lint from the duct. It was easily assembled, easy to use and the dryer now works. We are committed to cleaning out the duct work once a year now. Who would have known a dryer duct needed to be cleaned? As for my boyfriend well the attachment connects to the drill. Anything with a power tool, like I said hours of entertainmentCustomer Review: Needs to be re-designed
Summary: 1 Stars
Great idea, but doesn't work because the hose part collapses on itself, not allowing air to go through to suck lint out.
Tried holding open, but not enough fingers on my hand to do so. Understand the need for a fexible hose, but needs to be
redesigned so the suction doesn't draw it shut. Don't waste your time to buy - doesn't work.
Customer Review: Not bad...
Summary: 4 Stars
This product is not terrible, but I am not sure if it is the best dryer vent cleaning system out there. I was reluctant to get a vent "brush" because I couldn't imagine how a long-handle brush could get all the way down the vent and pick up excess lint...I was pretty sure that a brush would miss areas. The most attractive feature about this product is that you can attach it to your vacuum hose and literally suck out all the lint and other dirt/dust/crumbs/hair/tissue/etc. that could not be caught in the lint trap. My dryer's lint trap is located on the top of my dryer...it is a small flip open top and you basically pull out the long, rectangular lint trap.
The product is basically as shown in the photo...although I imagine it is easier to clean a dryer like the one depicted in the photo. One third of the attachment is a hard plastic tube that fits over your vacuum hose attachment, and the rest is a soft plastic (bendable) hose that actually does reach all the way down my dryer's lint vent. I have also found that this vent vac hose can be used to vacuum other areas of the house that the traditional vacuum hose attachment cannot get to. Examples: under the refrigerator and other various appliances, a/c vents, in small crevasses or under furniture pieces that are close to the ground. The concept of this tool is great, but there is one problem.
When shipped by the distributor (item does not come from Amazon), they packaged it so badly that by the time I opened it up, the hose was very bent...to the point where it created two large creases on the soft plastic hose. I left it out in the sun for a while to soften up so I could re-shape it, but the creases still remained. While this isn't a huge problem, when using the vent vac hose, it has a tendency to close itself off at these creases...thus, airflow is stopped. I had to pull it out of the vent several times to re-shape it but it would continue to do so. After a while, I decided to put my hand down the dryer vent as far as possible to hold the plastic hose at the point where it would pinch itself off...and that did seem to help. It was pretty annoying, however.
All in all, a great concept and I suppose that if it is packaged/shipped with more care, the problem with the hose closing itself off would not happen. The price is right, however, and I was still able to get plenty of lint out that probably had been stuck in the dryer vent for years...so it did do the job, it was just a trying process at times.
Customer Review: Terrible product
Summary: 1 Stars
Product did not work successfully as advertized. When connected to a vacuum cleaner, the product collapsed inwards from the machines vacuum, blocking off all flow of the vacuum.