Everyone go check your dryers right now and clean every speck of lint from every single crevice. Detach and open things if you need to.
Our dryer stopped working last week so we filed a home warranty claim. The tech came and looked and said that there had been a dryer fire at some point — which we hadn’t known for sure but suspected since there were marks in the dryer when we moved in 18 months ago (and honestly we didn’t give it a second thought because the dryer worked fine). We clean the lint very frequently so didn’t worry about it.
But!
The Warranty claim was denied. The powers that be said it was a lint fire and that is never covered because “annual dryer maintenance” is the homeowners responsibility and since we’ve lived here for 18 months, it was our responsibility to find it. Even though it’s worked fine for 18 months.
The tech said that he could tell just by looking in there (when he opened it all up) that the previous owners had probably never taken care of it because there was lint falling out. (He said he really doesn’t think you have to do it every year but that’s how the insurance company screws you out of claims.)
So I asked his opinion on the best avenue to fight the decision and he said we can’t. It’s done.
So that’s it. We’re out the entire cost.
The good news? The new set will be here Friday AND Tom started his new job today.