Product review (5 stars): The new step was to buy a new washer and dryer (something we had been planning on anyway) to see if the new dryer would have a b
My family just recently moved to a new house. After drying our first load of clothes, we found them to still be almost soaking wet. We noticed that the ventilation from the dryer to the outside of the house was very long and traveled up through the attic and out the roof. Our first attempt at a remedy involved pulling apart the vent pipes and cleaning out what had to be at least a decade of old lint. After seeing how much lint was trapped in the pipes, we figured that would surely fix the issue. Clothes were still damp after running the cycle again. The new step was to buy a new washer and dryer (something we had been planning on anyway) to see if the new dryer would have a better fan to push the hot air out. After running a cycle on the new Maytag Bravos XL dryer, we got a "check vent" notification and any drying cycle other than the Timed Dry would shut off after about a minute. This is when we finally decided to buy the Tjernlund M-49504351. I had a friend, who happens to be an electrician, help me wire the current sensing switch. I, on the other hand, am NOT an electrician so this may or may not make sense - he ran a wire from an outlet we already had in the attic to form a circuit with the current sensing switch and a new outlet box he mounted below the original. We plugged the Tjernlund into the new box. Whenever the dryer comes on, the circuit is completed and the new outlet box provides power to the fan. The test run was a success. Once the dryer came on, the fan came on, and as soon as we turned the dryer off, the fan turned off. After running my first cycle with the fan in place, we now have a "good airflow" notification and our clothes dry in one cycle. Hallelujah! This thing is amazing and I would recommend it to anyone with drying issues due to an excessively long dryer vent.