Few household chores are as crucial and often overlooked as cleaning the lint trap in your clothes dryer. The lint trap is used to catch the majority of the lint from your laundry before it gets into ...

House fires caused by dryer lint are a real thing. I don't want to add to your list of worries, so let me share a secret with you: cleaning this part of your front-loading dryer is easy. Plus, I have ...

While you’re likely accustomed to cleaning out the lint trap after each dryer cycle, there’s another critical area that needs regular attention—the space just underneath the lint trap. Lint, dust, ...

If you spend any time doing laundry, you already know that you’re supposed to clean out the lint trap every time you run a load through the dryer. But the task is more urgent than it may seem in the ...

I can't believe how much lint was lurking in my ...

CHICAGO -- Clothes dryers are second only to stoves when it comes to causing house fires, and are responsible for hundreds of them every year in Illinois alone, but experts say these fires are ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Clothes dryers are second only to stoves when it comes to causing house fires, and are responsible for hundreds of them every year in Illinois alone, but experts say these fires are ...