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Indoor Air Quality Experts
Your Dryer Vent – A Fire Hazard
A clothes dryer works by forcing hot air through a turning drum. Wet clothes placed in the drum are then dried by moving hot air. It is possible for a full load of wet clothes to contain as much as 1 and a half gallons of water. Lint and debris is created from the clothes [...]
Posted in Dryer Vent Cleaning
Plastic Versus Clean Air
I recently read an article on the Moms Clean Air Force website (http://www.momscleanairforce.org) regarding how plastic and the production of it affects air quality. As a mom I found it interesting. Parent or not, air quality is very important to our health and all information is helpful. Did you know that the life cycle of [...]
Posted in Plastic and Air Quality
Your Dryer Vent
Have you had your dryer vent cleaned? Did you know that you should? Dryers in homes must be properly vented to the outside to allow for ventilation of exhaust. Over time, that vent will accumulate lint. If this lint is not properly and regularly removed, it can become a fire hazard. Natural gas clothes dryers [...]
Posted in Dryer Vent Cleaning
Early Morning Blaze Damages Duplex
This is why it is so important to regularly check and clean your furnace and ductwork! An article on Castanet this morning: Photo: Ragnar Haagen An early morning blaze has damaged a duplex in the 500 block of Bolotzky Court in Rutland. It began just before 7 a.m. when crews received a call about a [...]
Posted in Furnace Cleaning, Furnaces
How Clean Is Your Furnace?!
A great article on Castanet! Furnaces Firing Up Fire Department by Grant Scott – Story: 81787 Oct 13, 2012 / 8:19 am A dirty furnace has once again led to the Kelowna Fire Department being called out in large numbers. The Kelowna Fire Department has been kept busy by dirty furnaces in the past 48 [...]
Posted in Furnace Cleaning
Even Robert De Niro Should Clean His Dryer Vent!
According to the latest press release this morning, Robert De Niro’s apartment caught fire this past Friday (June 8, 2012), after the lint in his clothes dryer caught fire. Apparently the fire began in his New York property, near Central Park, around 2 pm. It took firefighters almost an hour to battle the blaze. According [...]
Posted in Clothes Dryer, Uncategorized
How A Clothes Dryer Works
**A very important factor to remember with any dryer is to have the dryer vent cleaned of any lint that has accumulated. It can be a very serious fire hazard causing a great deal of damage or loss of life. **MODERN PURAIR® offers this service, where we blow out any lint accumulated in the vent that [...]
Posted in Clothes Dryer
Dryer Vent Cleaning
“Every year there are over 16,000 preventable fires in North America unnecessarily causing over $100 Million in property damage and the personal injury of over 400 people.” – Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC™) Over the years, a build-up of lint is common in the dryer vent. The lint trap only catches approximately 10% of the [...]
Posted in Dryer Vent Cleaning
CHBC NEWS – HOUSE FIRE STARTS FROM DIRTY FURNACE FILTER!
Dirty filter blamed for fire call in Kelowna Photo Credit: Travis Lowe, CHBC News The Kelowna Fire Department attended a home on Lombardy Square Tuesday morning at about 10:30 a.m. after reports of smoke coming from the furnace roof vent. After inspecting the source of the smoke, the fire department determined there was no fire. [...]
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