Appliance Specialists
St. George appliance service and installation for major home appliances, where venting and hookup decide as much as the machine does.
Appliance Specialists handles both halves of the trade in St. George: fixing machines that have failed and installing new ones properly in the first place. The second half gets less attention than it deserves, because a significant number of service calls are really installation problems that took a year or two to surface.
Background
A clothes dryer illustrates the point better than anything else in the house. A dryer works by moving heated air through the drum and out, so its performance is set by the duct as much as by the machine. Every foot of duct and every elbow adds resistance, and manufacturers publish a maximum equivalent length that counts elbows as several feet each. Exceed it and the dryer runs longer cycles at higher internal temperature, which is hard on the heating element and the thermal cutoffs and is the leading cause of the complaint that a new dryer does not dry.
Duct material matters as much as length. Rigid metal duct is smooth-walled and sheds lint; the flexible foil and plastic accordion types have ridged interiors that catch lint at every corrugation and can be crushed flat behind a machine pushed back into place. Lint is combustible, and a restricted duct is both the efficiency problem and the fire risk in one. The same reasoning applies to a range hood vented into a cabinet instead of outside, a dishwasher drain line without a high loop, and a refrigerator water line run in a way that cannot be shut off - all of which show up eventually as service calls.
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Address
40 N City Center StSt. George, UT 84770
Contact
- Work Phone: 435-673-5600
Frequently asked questions
Why does my dryer take two or three cycles to dry a load?
Restricted airflow is the usual cause. A dryer dries by moving heated air through the drum and out, so a duct that is too long, has too many elbows, is crushed behind the machine or is packed with lint will stretch cycle times regardless of the dryer. Manufacturers publish a maximum equivalent duct length that counts each elbow as several extra feet.
Is flexible dryer duct acceptable?
Rigid metal duct is the better choice. Its smooth interior sheds lint, while the ridged interior of foil and plastic accordion duct catches lint at every corrugation and crushes easily when the machine is pushed back against the wall. Where a short flexible section is needed to make the connection, semi-rigid metal is preferred over plastic.
Do appliances need to be installed by a technician?
Not always, but the connections are where problems start. Level and anti-tip brackets on ranges, a high loop or air gap on a dishwasher drain, a shut-off on a refrigerator water line and a properly sized vent on a dryer are all details that work invisibly for years when done right and cause service calls when they are not.
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