Lint

Ahh, the joys of old-house ownership! The latest recently-discovered problem with our old house?

Lint.

It seems that the folks who started restoring our 1911 house neglected to run the dryer vent to the outside of the house. Instead, I found a length of flexible tubing hanging in the crawlspace, with a big pile of dryer lint under it!

This would not be a big issue, except for the fact that dryer lint is quite flammable. In fact, when my boys were in Cub Scouts, our den leader had the boys bring Ziploc bags of dryer lint to the Webelos Wild campout, because it makes such good tinder for starting fires!

So, tonight, I crawled around the crawlspace (thus the name?) and collected big wads of dryer lint. Fairly soon, I'll need to install some vent piping to the outside of the house.

You know, like normal houses have. :)