Is my dryer just incompetent?

Olive2528 · September 2011

Or is this normal?

My DH and I are having a debate about whether our dryer is the problem or CDs just take forever to dry. I try and line dry covers and shells but we live in the Pacific Northwest and its very damp and humid out so its pretty impractical to line dry inserts. When I put inserts in the dryer (especially hemp and grovia inserts but even the full size BG microfiber sometimes) they take 1.5 or sometimes even 2 full 70 minute cycles to dry on full heat and fitteds always take 2 full dryer cycles! I usually do small loads every day or so too so its not too full at all-its just such a pain to make all the extra trips to the basement to do the CD prewash and then keep restarting the dryer! Does this happen to anyone else or is this just my dryer?

mommabear530 · September 2011

Eek! All my fitteds and bamboo inserts/soakers (take longest to dry) are done in 40-50 minutes on high.

lynn97 · September 2011

Yeah, I think there's something wrong w/your dryer. I dry my inserts on low and they're still usually done inside of an hour. My old dryer was taking forever to dry things a couple years back. DH dug into it and just really cleaned it out. Getting all of the old lint and junk out seemed to drastically help.

Are you having issues w/your clothes taking forever, too?

pixy_stix · September 2011

Check your lint traps.

LetsBeNice · September 2011

Is your washer spinning out all the extra water?

Hulahoop1234 · September 2011

How old is your dryer? Is it just the diapers or do clothes take awhile too? Also, your washer may not be spinning out as much water as it used to. When I got my new washer I was amazed, because everything is so much drier and lighter after the final spin.

GHBEA · September 2011

make sure they are not sticking to the the exhaust part, we found out the hard way and you described what we went through. Now I just remove the one that gets sucked to it every so often. Its a pain but like you the weather isn't always nice.

marriedinaugust · September 2011

My dryer is similar. I have a very old dryer. I find adding a clean dry towel to the dryer helps tremendously.

Olive2528 · September 2011

Bah! Thanks for all the help- sounds like there is definitely something wrong! We just moved into the house a year and a half ago and the dryer wasn't getting the clothes totally dry from the start so my FIL and I tried cleaning out the vents where they come out of the house and that didn't help much, then my husband tried cleaning the vents from the inside of the house as much as he could, finally we stopped using the automatic dry setting with a sensor (thinking the sensor was messed up) and put clothes on the timed dry for the most time possible (70 min) and that is usually cutting it with our clothes but not at all with diapers so its good to know that most dryers can get fitteds and inserts dry in one pass!

I think I've just gotten so used to our pathetic dryer I figured diapers might just take a lot longer than normal clothes! I hadn't considered our washer might not be spinning things dry enough either... now I just need to convince my DH we need to upgrade...

silveredmadness · September 2011

Check your dryer vent-- the one that leads outside. Chances are you have lint up there.

Helix07 · September 2011

Try an extra spin in your washer first and add a dry towel to your dryer with the inserts. That does the trick for us without having to upgrade.

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