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| DRYER VENT VAC | 
 enlarge | Brand: Get Organized
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: $9.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 37920
ASIN: B00028I1M4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Keeps dryer free of obstructionsand | | • | Reduces fire risk and drying time | | • | Extends the life of your dryer | | • | Slide one end over vacuum hose, the other end suctions lint and dust from hard to reach places | | • | Hose and brush are 40 1/2". Plastic. |
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Product Description
Dryer vent vac attachment keeps dryer free of obstructionsand reduces fire riskand drying time. Extends the life of your dryer. Slide one end over vacuum hose, the other end suctions lint and dust from hard to reach places. Hose and brush are 40 1/2". Plastic.
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| Customer Reviews:
Doesn't work very well... November 17, 2008
I had high hopes this product would solve my lint problem in my dryer. I hate the idea of a fire developing. Though I struggle to make the product work because of the collapsing nature of the end of the hose, I do not think it was worth the price. I have to continuely stop & pull it out to squeeze the end because it will no longer work. It is better than nothing but could be improved.
 Deserves zero stars September 28, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I ordered and used this product. I couldn't even use it once because the hose part of the product kept collapsing on itself, disallowing air to go through it. It did NOT work. Even using my fingers to hold the hose open, it barely created enough suction to clean my dryer. Do NOT order this product.
vent vac March 12, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
It came damaged, permanently crimped in two places. This renders the product useless.
 Buyer Beware January 11, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a great idea. However, the end of the vac that fits into the vacuum attachment may not fit your vacuum. It does not fit my vacuum attachments. The other end of the vac is very narrow. It has little slits in the plastic (creating 'fringe') but works better if they are cut off. The vac is really good for getting lint not only in the lint trap but also in the narrow areas in or around the dryer.
 Not bad... May 26, 2006
39 out of 39 found this review helpful
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.
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