Gardus RLE202 LintEater 10-Piece Rotary Dryer Vent Cleaning System
|
List Price: Our Price: $23.18 You Save: $8.77 (27%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Category: Tools See more product details |
|---|
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Gardus RLE202 LintEater 10-Piece Rotary Dryer Vent Cleaning System
Customer Review: Dryer vent cleaner
Summary: 5 Stars
Eventhough I cleaned 80% of my dryer vent with a homemade jig, I decided to give this set up a try. All I can say is that I should have gotten this system in the first place and saved hours of work and scraped knuckles. I started from the outside and slowly worked my way in. Before I knew it, my son who was on the other end with the vacuum cleaner, told me the brush head was visible! I was done in less than 10 minutes. I highly recommend this product. I got the extension kit to reach the entire duct from one side.Customer Review: Dryer vent lint remover
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellant product it works as advertised and is easy to use. I used it in a floor to roof standard dryer vent application with 15ft ceilings. The dryer vent tube in my home was was severely compromised with lint. After a few minutes all the lint was removed and the dryer is working much more efficiently and as if new. A brush attaches to threaded and flexible rods which attach to a standard drill. Rotate the drill to the right only and the brush the removes lint very quickly. The rods can bend 90 degrees so no matter the shape of your vent this product should work.Customer Review: Dryer vent solution
Summary: 5 Stars
This tool is well made and easy to use - it solved the problem for our dryer vent that exits through the attic. I was shocked at how much lint was built up in the vent, and our dryer finally works properly again!Customer Review: Easy and effective tool
Summary: 5 Stars
This product is well designed and easy to use. The directions are helpful and show exactly how to properly use this to clean your dryer vents. A DVD is also included, but the written directions were clear enough that I did not use it.
I have a long run of about 25 feet with several 90 degree connections along the way. I was concerned that the brush or extensions would become jammed - this did not happen. I was careful to make sure that the extensions were properly connected to one another and that a small amount of duct tape was used at each join as instructed. It seems important to run the drill in a clockwise fashion to minimize the risk of disconnection the joins of the extensions - the directions are rather clear on this point. My 14.4 cordless drill had plenty of power to complete the job and was easier to use than a corded drill. I also used a shop vac and the included adapter to catch lint and dust on the non-auger end of the vent tubing.
I cleaned my entire run in about 15 minutes of total work. For what you get the price may be a bit high, but I'm sure that the overall cost to do this yourself over several uses would be much less costly than hiring a professional to do the same.
Customer Review: Easy to Use Vent Cleaning System
Summary: 4 Stars
We've been in our house 8 years now, and I never knew you were supposed to clean out your dryer vents. Our dryer was starting to leave clothes damp, and after some internet searches I decided that clogged vents were most likely the culprit. Enter the Gardus Linteater system. I just got finished with my first cleaning about half an hour ago. The system is very easy to use. A brush mounted on flexible extensions is fed into the duct either from inside or outside the house while at the same time the duct is being blown or vacuumed clean. The Gardus system is easy to use and well made at a reasonable price.
After my experience I have a couple of words of wisdom. First, they recommend adding tape to the brush extension pieces, which I think is completely overkill. I snugged them with Vice Grips and they were very difficult to get undone. Unless you run your drill the wrong direction the entire time I doubt they'll work themselves loose.
Second, I'd recommend blowing outside rather than sucking. I originally set up my shop vac to suck, and was clever and plugged it in using a remote switch I had, so I could wait until I was outside ready to go before turning it on. Things were going great for about the first minute until all my smoke alarms started going off. Somehow a fair amount of lint managed to get outside the vac and covered my entire laundry room and part of my downstairs. In retrospect I should have used the included vac attachment with the hole for the extension rod (I didn't realize it was in the box until I was finished) and done the cleaning from inside next to the vac, so I would have realized I was filling my house with lint. That was all my own fault, and not the cleaning system.