if clothes go in clean, what makes the "dust" that appears on the filter?
2007-01-17 00:27:21 · 16 answers · asked by richardgriffindundee 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
It all starts in your bellybutton.
2007-01-17 00:53:51 · answer #1 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lint is tiny pieces of fabric that pull free as clothes tumble dry. If you have pets, you'll also find pet hair in the lint.
By the way, you don't really think that washing them removes ALL dust and dirt, do you? Some of it floats around in the water and sticks back to the clothing rather than draining out.
2007-01-17 00:30:26 · answer #2 · answered by swbiblio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just bits of fabric from your clothes worn off by the drying process.
Or the home of the rare tumble dryer spider that spins its web in the filter as it's nice and warn there.
2007-01-17 00:31:58 · answer #3 · answered by Mad Professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not dust it's lent. That's actully little bits of your cloths that come off and mix in with the water and get caught in the filter
2007-01-17 00:35:54 · answer #4 · answered by Ferret 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mechanical action of the clothes tumbling and rubbing against each other breaks down the fibers slightly with every washing, and those fibers fall off the article of clothing and collect in the lint trap.
2007-01-17 00:30:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dryer lint comes from your clothes being rubbed together.....when they are in the dryer they are literally rubbed dry, by each other. Everything sheds in the dryer, but fabric softner helps prevent all that dust and lint.
2007-01-17 00:43:05 · answer #6 · answered by LAW 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That fluff is small fibers from your clothing that has either broken off or come loose from washing.
2007-01-17 00:31:25 · answer #7 · answered by MT C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eeny weeny bits of YOUR clothes contribute to the fluff.
If you dry a blue blanket, all the fluff is blue, right??
Better for the clothes to dry hanging on a line!
2007-01-17 00:31:42 · answer #8 · answered by thisbrit 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is loose fibres that are shedded from your clothes during the drying cycle.They become loose everytime you wash your clothes.
2007-01-17 00:30:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fuzz and lint balls from clothes. Also anything like kleenex that the washer didn't get
2007-01-17 01:28:03 · answer #10 · answered by Somanyquestions,solittletime 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the cotton fibres off your clothes
2007-01-17 00:31:01 · answer #11 · answered by Velouria 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋