Tumble dryer repair
Dryer tumbling without heat, or running for hours and leaving clothes damp? Usually the element, a sensor, or airflow.
A dryer depends on three things: heat, airflow, and a turning drum. Lose any one of them and the clothes come out damp. And the most frequent cause — also the easiest to fix — is airflow choked with lint.
Plenty of people call thinking the dryer has failed, when the lint filter or the vent duct is simply blocked and the moist air has nowhere to go. A straightforward clean restores it to full efficiency.
What you'll notice
- The dryer tumbling with no heat at all
- Clothes still damp after a full cycle
- Cycles taking far longer than they used to
- A burning or scorched-lint smell
- Squealing or scraping while it turns
- The dryer shutting itself off partway through
Common causes
- A blocked lint filter or vent duct
- A burnt-out heating element
- A failed thermostat or thermal fuse
- A stretched or snapped drum belt
- A faulty moisture sensor ending the cycle early
- Worn drum rollers, which is what causes the scraping
How we fix it
- 1Checking the full air path and clearing accumulated lint
- 2Metering the heating element, thermostat and thermal fuse
- 3Checking belt and rollers, and listening while it turns
- 4Testing the moisture sensor if cycles are ending early
- 5Running a full cycle and measuring the exhaust temperature to confirm
Questions about this repair
Yes — standalone, stacked, and combined washer-dryer units in one body.
Almost always lint building up in the duct. The moist air has to get out, and when the path narrows, cycles stretch and energy use climbs.
Get your washer running today
Send us the machine type and the fault — we'll come back with a slot and a ballpark price.