Derek Cole and two others debate whether dryer sheets in vents work. They conclude it's a bad idea: sheets only mask smells, vents aren't designed for them, and they may pose health risks. Better to fix the actual problem, like dirt or misplaced vents.
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Is it a good idea to put dryer sheets in my vents? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And I gotta think, if it was a good idea, I would think, like, Downey and Snuggle and all those guys, man, I really think they'd have that as part of their advertising program.
Yeah.
So, I mean, what better use? I mean, how many vents do you have in your house if you put one in every vent? I mean.
Yeah.
You know, and it's gonna take you, like, two months to go through a box if you just use them for laundry.
Yeah. And that smell can't last that long. I mean, what, like, one. One day?
Yeah. We gotta be asking ourselves, what are we covering up?
Yeah, I mean, that's a really big question. What are you trying to do with the dryer vent or the dryer sheet covering the vent? Are you trying to eliminate a smell coming out? Are you trying to prevent dirt from coming into the vent? So what's the real goal? I mean, if it's. If it's dirt in the vent, I mean, where's the vent at? And. And can we adjust things? Or do you have something sitting over it? You're putting shoes on it. What are you doing there? And if it's a smell, I mean, obviously something is causing the smell. So you want to attack the, you know, the problem source and not put.
A band aid on.
Yeah. So you want to attack what's causing the smell versus just covering up the smell.
Absolutely.
Using the Febreze on the carpet. Well, what's causing the smell? Let's eliminate the smell, and then we can stop using dryer sheets in Febreze. And. And because I'm pretty sure nothing in.
Nature smells like a dryer sheet.
No.
I mean, there's got to be some, you know, chemicals and stuff like that that, you know, we're. We're putting in the air to cover up the smell that necessarily may or may not be good for us.
Yeah. So we have. We have plenty of natural products. They can fix these problems. So driver vent in the grill. I would not recommend there's. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no design for the manufacturer saying this one. Designed to have, you know, driver sheets and events.
No, not at all. Your system wasn't planned around that.
Yeah. So definitely something I would not do. If you're having a. A dirt getting into the vent problem, that's another issue. Maybe it's in the wrong place, or maybe we're doing the wrong things in that space and that can be fixed and moved.
Yeah. I mean, you shouldn't use it.
Yeah. Some kids have thrown toys and, you know, stroke the floor and let's sweep in the hole. It's a hole there. Let's sweep it in there.
Very common in new construction.
Yes, very common in new construction. I've seen sandwich bags, cans, drinks, towels, towels.
