Gardus RLE202 LintEater 10-Piece Rotary Dryer Vent Cleaning System
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Gardus RLE202 LintEater 10-Piece Rotary Dryer Vent Cleaning System
Customer Review: quick review: it works as advertised (very pleased)
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this a year ago and it sat in a pile on my workbench waiting to be used. As the guilt mounted about all of the dust in the vent conduit... luckily my dryer died! In replacing the new dryer yesterday I felt compelled to use this. Took 5 minutes to open the box and assemble the unit. 90% intuitive and I only doublechecked the manual for attaching the plastic brush.
Funny that peope say the instructions tell you to only connect 2/3 of the extension first... duh! That 12' is LONG and if you hook it all up at once and use the drill you're likely to cause the line to double over itself and break. Kind of obvious to me so after doing it in 2 steps... it worked AWESOME!!! wow was there a lot of dust in my 20' run! Did it from the inside and pulled out enough lint to fill a shoebox. Went in from the outside and achieved the same result. This is after 5 years of not cleaning it out. Am very pleased.
The best part is once I started the new dryer it started 'snowing' lint outside. Seriously it blew a TON of lint out!!! Very satisfied.
I already owned a drill with a clutch. I think that's a requirement or you'd better be very careful when using a slow-speed drill without a clutch.
My shopvac tube was too small. That's a bummer. They should include a plastic adapter for smaller hose sizes than a shop vac (like used with a standard vacuum. That's the reason I bumped it to 4 stars.
Bottom line: Does the job. Be sure to have a drill with a clutch. Takes 15 minutes total. I'm very very satisfied. Hopefully in the future they'll include a small vacuum to shopvac adapter.
-zb
Customer Review: A Product That Actually WORKS! Get it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking on Amazon yesterday for a dryer brush because I have been noticing the dryer is taking more cycles to dry. I cleaned out the lint trap and below it that day. However I wanted to get the duct work cleaned out. I searched and found the LintEater system on here. I read the reviews, watched some videos and I was really impressed with it. It looked simple, easy to use and seems to get the job done without much hassle.
I have Prime so I paid the $3.99 for Saturday delivery and it showed up today. I quickly read the manual and got to work. How long did it take to increase my dryers efficiency, decrease my energy usage and have peace of mind knowing my house is not going to catch fire - 10 minutes. Yup. Just ten minutes. You would not believe the amount of lint that came out. It blew my mind. No wonder the dryer wasn't drying like it should. This thing is AMAZING! Worth every penny. It has to be the best purchase I have made in a long time.
Great value. Great product. Excellent videos on how to use it. Something that actually works as advertised. Who would have thought?
The package contents goes up to 12 feet. That was plenty for us. I could have used an extra extension but I was only a foot from the exhaust of the actual dryer itself. I used a cordless drill, set the choke to 10 and away I went. The dryer was also running to blow out the lint that was cleaned. It was snowing LINT! Lol.
Thank you Gardus for a great product! I can't wait to use this again in a few months. EVERYONE should have one of these.
Customer Review: It works!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the Linteater and the 12-ft. extention through amazon.com (I got them separately rather than together as they qualify for Amazon Prime if ordered separately, and cost was comparable versus together). I live on the second floor in a 4-story apartment building, with a vent going to the roof.
I do not have roof access, and I don't own a shop-vac, so I wasn't expecting too much. I figured if I didn't get the brush stuck in the vent, this would be a success!
Well, not only did the brush not get stuck, but I managed to get 1/3 of a small shopping bag of lint out of the duct (that is my weird "trophy" until trash day - haha)! I ran the brush on a cordless drill, going "up and down" to have gravity help get the lint to fall out. I made sure always to run the drill clockwise, and never on "full blast" (it's a variable-speed drill) until the battery started to go (then can blast away)! I was going to use duct tape and pliers as recommended to hold the pieces together, but they seemed solid and I was right - the spinning motion of the drill (again clockwise) kept the pieces from coming apart.
And here's the bottom line - besides reducing the risk of fire, my drying time went down from 83 minutes to 59 minutes. Maybe this isn't as dramatic as others, but again, considering the conditions I have it's not bad (a roughly 30% reduction in drying time)! I'm very happy with these results and would recommend the Linteater to anyone who has a dryer!!
Customer Review: Works like a champ on the dryer vent, not so well on the gutter
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife noticed the drying time taking longer and longer, almost to the point of us kicking the 2-year-old Whirlpool Duet out to the curb. She found this product via a Google search for sources of long drying times. I read the several positive comments and thought it made sense that our vent may be clogged with lint. I had the 15+ foot dryer vent cleaned in less than an hour, including cleaning from the roof (vertical run from the dryer to roof) access and from the garage connection next to the dryer itself. After the cleaning, I swept up a decent pile of lint, just as others had reported. We are both surprised how much better the dryer now works. Drying time was reduced from about 2 hours down to 45 minutes for the toughest-to-dry clothes. I really recommend that you try this before calling the service technician out to tell you that the dryer works fine.
The cleaning system also says it can clean gutter drain spouts. I tried using the flex rods and the special blade attachment provided in the box. It worked pretty well but caught itself on some tight turns and bends. Those rods are not very forgiving if you get them extra twisted, especially on a powerful cordless drill. I didn't have any problems when cleaning the dryer vent with the larger diameter metal tubing. I think this product is best used for the dryer vents as it was designed; make sure you use good common sense and wear your eye protection and keep the drill torque/speeds on the low side.
Customer Review: Dryer fire preventor
Summary: 4 Stars
We could hardly wait to receive this product. Our neighbors hired a contractor to clean out their dryer vent and this is the product that he used. It wasn't complicated at all. We also bought the extension rods to go with it as we have a pretty long run from the dryer to the outside vent. It worked well. I was a bit afraid that it might come unsnapped deep in the vent, but it did not. It pulled out a tremendous amount of lint and debris from the vent. It sped up the drying time and has saved us money in electric bills. The greatest peace of mind that it has given us is to know that it helps to prevent dryer fires. Safety is our number one goal. Our only draw back with the product itself was that the first few attempts when you would press the button on the drill is that it would easily twist up on itself. We remedied it by stepping further back with the drill and walking backward with the drill as each section length came out of the vent. You will need a pretty long extension cord and a two man operation to do this the way we did it. I would also have to recommend either running the shop vac attachment along with it or purchasing the mesh bag attachment. We found that we had so much lint and debris built up that we released back into the air. It was quite messy. The person who is closest to the vent, might want to consider using a mask to fliter out the lint that becomes airborn. All in all it is a product that I would highly recommend.