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Complete side note related to home maintenance though to add a bit of fun... Our dryer vent had not been cleaned out in quite a while and it was taking a long time to dry a load. I tried one of those long-pole brush attachments you hook to a vacuum to from the outside vent - it sucked up a bit, but honestly it didn't seem to help much. Well... last week I crawled around in the basement and pulled the foil tape off the elbow joint on the vent tube and stuck a leaf blower in there on full blast. Holy cow was that a lot of fun to see. Crazy how much lint had built up in the tube and came flying out like a cannon... LOL.
Should be cleaned regularly. We use a local guy in town that makes that his business - Stuart at LintFree Dryer Vent Cleaning, LLC. $99 and he takes care of everything in about 1/2 hour. The cleaning before last he found my wife's drivers license in the vent. It went missing and she had gotten a replacement. Amazing to think that made it through the dryer's blower and everything.

Pretty amazing to see how fast clothes dry after that vent is cleaned.