So glad I bought this. A few days ago, I washed and dried some white sheets. When I took them out of the drier to put back on the bed, I saw something that looked like dried mud on the sheets. Weird, I thought. Rinsed them out, dried them again, went to put them back on the bed, and MORE "mud". Did a quick Google search and read that my drier vents were probably clogged and were a fire hazard.

I was about to call a repairman to come "fix" my drier, but after looking on Amazon, I found this product and decided to purchase it. (Yay for Prime 2-day shipping.) I came Sunday, and I put it together and inserted into the outside vent opening. I didn't actually use the drill, because the battery was dead. After getting some lint out (not a huge amount), I went inside and tried the same thing from where the vent goes through the floor and under the house. I felt like it got stuck on one of the bends, so I went outside and tried it from the outside again. Same result. At that point I went in and turned on the drier, but this time there was no air coming out the vent.

I figured I had somehow disconnect the vent under the house, so my husband (lucky guy) got to crawl under the house and see what I had done. I had, in fact, disconnected a joint in the vent, so he fixed that, but when he crawled out, he brought a HUGE pile of lint. I think I had jammed it into an elbow of the vent. Maybe if I had used the drill it wouldn't have done that, but, oh well - no real harm done.

I then cleaned out the back of the drier and got a good amount of lint and used the long brush to clean out the slot where the filter goes.

Turned the drier back on and YAY - it works! Bottom line, is that towels that used to take over an hour to dry now take about 40 minutes, and I don't have to worry about burning down my 100 year old plus house down.

HIGHLY recommend this product.!

This product really deserves five stars. It assembles easily I love the fact that I can attach it to a cordless drill for rotation. Each of the rods is 36 inches long or 3ft, but I only needed one or two to get into the back of the dryer from the outside vent because my dryer is literally only a foot or so from the vent. I didn't use the Shop-Vac attachment, but I will next time. It will be a lot less messy to have the Shop-Vac going at the same time as the lint remover. It did a really excellent job and I feel a lot safer in my home knowing that the lint is gone for the first time in several years!

I bought it after a friends house caught fire due to excessive lint on the dryer ducts. My drier is about 10 feet away from the exhaust. It goes up one floor then 90 degrees right. I use a snake camera and turns out my duct is very clean compared to other images I have seen online. The product bends well, and had no issues putting it in or out a couple of times. Check out the video I attached.
Notices I did not do a great job in the video removing all the lint, that is because of the camera cable was twisting. After removing the camera I got all of it out.

I bought this last October and finally got around to cleaning our 15-foot dryer duct run. It's just not the type of thing that's at the top of your list... like "Wow, should I go see a movie, or clean our dryer duct?" However, our dryer was drying slower and slower, and I knew it was a task that I needed to tackle, so I read the very long instruction book for this and began my work. The instructions really need to be re-written and simplified. My Sony TV has a smaller instruction manual. But I do appreciate the manufacturer's thoroughness. For those of you with short attention spans here's my quick start guide:

1. Screw the rods together and use electrical or duct tape to reinforce the joints to keep them from unscrewing during your work.
2. Stick one end of rod in your drill and set the clutch pretty close to the lowest or second lowest setting, then increase power if you need it.
3. Attached brush to other end of rod with supplied key wrench / allen wrench and tighten.
4. Make sure your drill is on clockwise - not reverse - mode or else the rods will unscrew inside your duct and you're screwed.
5. Read #4 again.
6. Turn dryer on air mode and then insert the brush in the pipe outside and begin spinning it by activating the drill. Push it in about a foot, then pull it out and watch the lint fly. Then push it in 2 feet and pull it out and watch the lint fly. Then 3 feet... etc.
7. Marvel at how much lint came out.
8. Marvel at how fast your dryer is and come write a review here.
9. Wash the clothes you were wearing when you did this because they are now covered in lint.

Hope this helps. It's a quick job and well worth it the trouble!

The lint eater is amazing! We recently bought a house that was built in 2001 and previously owned by an older lady, so I assumed the dryer vent had never been cleaned. Before setting up the dryer, I wanted to give the vent line a thorough cleaning for safety's sake and to help the dryer run as efficiently as possible. Well, I'm glad I did! The exterior cover on the vent had been gone for some time, and the amount of leaves and pine needles plus lint wads that I got out were shocking! It seemed like every time I ran the LintEater through line, it dislodged another fist-sized wad of stuff. When I first hooked up the shop vac inside the house, and went out to the vent exit, there was almost zero air getting sucked in. The wads were so huge that they kept stopping up my shop vac hose and I had to keep going inside to clean it out. After all was said and done, my vent line is free-flowing and working as good as new. Glad I spent the money on this product!

Helpful tip - when I started, I just jammed all of the rods together and tried to work it into the vent line. It's way too unwieldy this way, and every time you hit the power on the drill, the rods get kinked and knotted up because they're so flexible. Start with one, and when that one gets most of the way into the vent line, add another. Repeat as necessary and you'll have a MUCH easier time.