Holikme 30 Feet Dryer Vent Cleaner Kit, Flexible Lint Brush with Drill Attachment, Fireplace Chimney Brushes Extends Up to 30 Feet for Easy Cleaning, Use with or Without a Power Drill

This dryer vent cleaner worked great, I left the drill end attached and simply rotated the brush off and back on to add additional sections of poles (each pole is about 17"). I started with 2 poles, cleaned vent with constant clockwise rotation, then added 2 poles and repeated process until I reached 15 feet which was where my Roof Vent was. I vacuumed after every pass so the photo of lint is just from 34" of vent duct. I used a slow and gradual up and down motion cleaning about 6" at a time - this seemed to work best. I used about 3 up/down passes for each 6" section. Unfortunately, when I went on Roof to see how amazing dryer vent flow, I learned the Roofing crew that reroofed 3 1/2 years ago installed a vent with very small screen which was completely clogged and no access. I called the Roofers yesterday but they said it may be a couple weeks before they can address with me. I'm sure I'll be paying for this replacement.

Easy-peasy! Worked great. I fed the cable through the exterior vent to where the flexible tube connects. Once fed through i connected the brush and pulled the brush back through. Worked amazing. Repeated 3-4 more times and was amazed by the box full of lint that got cleaned out. I took the flex tube outside and repeated the same process with the fed tube.Takes more time to prep and breakdown than to clean all the tubes. Really happy with this purchase.

I had about 25 feet of vent tube and it was very dirty. I don't think it was the fault of the brush kit - but the clean-out was a failure. It's a 35 year old house and I don't know if the vent tube has ever been cleaned. I'm guessing "No". The brush pulled lots of lint out from both ends of the tube. The lint on the exit side of the line was soaking wet! That created a significant drag on the brush as it rotated in the tubing that I don't think the brush was designed to handle.During the job - the rods kept wrapping up from the torque. I should have stopped there when that started happening. It's a sign that you're exceeding the capacity of this kit. But I kept going. Ultimately - the brush broke off from the rod about half-way into the tube. One of the rod ends failed and spun off. I was never able to get the brush all the way from one end to the other before it broke off - so I just pushed a lot of the lint into a big wad in the middle. It was between floors so I had no access to the tubing without tearing out drywall in the house. I scoped it with 5 meter camera and believe I saw a damaged section of tubing - that was likely the ultimate problem. With the brush stuck that I couldn't get out and the damaged tubing - I ended up abandoning the entire line and just ran new tubing on another route.Again - this isn't the fault of this kit. It has its limitations - and spinning through soaking wet lint on a long line is one of them. I pushed it too hard and paid the price. If you have a long line and find wet lint in your tubing - I'd hire a pro or get steel-braided flexible line on a brush before trying to get through it.

We never thought there was much lint collecting inside our 20' dryer duct. Our dryer seem to keep taking longer and longer to dry clothes which we attributed to it being 8 years old. I even blew out the duct using a gas powered blower which removed some lint (I thought it removed it all).A year later the washer went out (it was a stackable unit) and we bought a new washer/dryer stack. We thought we bought a lemon because there was a ton of condensation coming out of the dryer vent and it was taking forever to dryer.Enter the Dryer Vent Cleaner Kit. I bought this 8 months ago thinking at some point I would clean out the little bit of lint that was in the ducting. The day the new dryer was installed I removed the dryer to access the vent. I inserted the dryer cleaner which pulled out a few large clumps of lint, but then stopped 1/3 of the way through (leaving one of the 1' connectors twisted - much like some have posted pictures of). I then went to the other end of the line and did the same thing removing more lint, but stopping 1/3 of the way through. I thought "Great, I cleared the vent!"That evening dryer loads were still taking forever to dry (never really drying) and condensation around the vent was off the charts.At this point I realized that I need to run this cleaner through the entire line. Instead of push it through which creates the twisting of the segments and would never go all the way through for me, I decide to pull it through.To do this I had a pull a string through the vent then tape the end of the segments that connects to the drill and pull that through until the brush it at the beginning of the vent. I watched a video by an electrician who showed how to suck a fishing line with a small plastic bag (like a parachute) through the duct. As I used the shop vac on on end the bag+fishing line was not coming out, but I was getting a bunch of lint coming out. I went to the other end to try the same thing with the shop vac and got a ton of lint, but not the fishing line+bag until suddenly enough lint cleared that the bag and line came through.I used that to pull a strong string through and then attached the end of the string to the drill end of the vent cleaner rod. Once the end was sticking out, I attached the drill, turn it on, and slow started pulling. The result was miraculous. No bent segments, the pulled through seamlessly, and in the process brought out another ton more of lint (a lot of it went due to the ongoing condensation caused by restricted flow).The trick is to set the cleaner so that you can PULL it through no push it through the duct.New dryer is drying flawlessly. I plan to run the cleaner through the duct once every 6 months and use my shop vac once a month to gauge how frequently I need to clean the vent.Amazing results!