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I rarely write reviews these days, as people are either paid to do so (and I am not) or they are fake (this is not). Anyway...I am leaving this review because a family member recently had a house fire due to dryer lint. They are ok, thank goodness, but thousands of dollars in repairs and aggravation galore. So, I started to become more aware of the seriousness of this matter. My last house had a dryer that backed to an outside wall so there was not need to do anything bu occasionally disconnect the dryer hose and dust the 8 inch tube to the exterior. Easy. Fast forward to my newly built home of about a year and a half. While building it, I actually took a pic of the dryer vent as I knew I would have to deal with dryer lint-ugh!. The dryer vent pipe is approx 25 feet in total and at about the 10 foot mar it takes about a 115 degree turn. So, about 3 months ago we noticed chunks of dryer lint outside of our house and some coming out of the roof vent. We decided to take our leaf blower and from the inside we stuck it up the dryer lint pipe-we put a towel around it to help with air leaks and kept the blower on for maybe 2 minutes, while we watched a few chunks fly our the roof vent. I knew that the lint was still stuck on the side walls of the vent and this bothered me, but I was just happy to remove a portion of the lint and keep the air flow moving to prevent a fire. Then I started googling and found companies that clean these vents...$150 on up depending on length of vent. No Thanks! I then saw these diy flexible vent cleaning kits. I read tons of reviews and event put the reviews thru the scam review programs. This one came up decent. So, I took a chance and purchased the 30 foot kit, to be sure that it was long enough to get all the way to the roof. We disconnected our dryer hose and moved the dryer out of the way. Things you'll need-drill, pair of pliers (as the connections get super tight as you use it). We opted to put a small piece of duct tape around each fitting, as I have read that if you do something wrong the sections can disconnect and get stuck in the pipe. We slowly sent up 1 section at a time until we felt it hit the roof (it stopped advancing). it took is 19 sections to get to the top. The thing that you have to do is when determining the direction of the drill, it is the direction that tightens the rods. and ONLY use this one direction the ENTIRE time it is in the vent pipe. If you put the drill in the other direction, the sections and brush will disconnect and get stuck. If you do it the right way, you don't even need the tape that we used for extra precaution as the connections tighten so much that you will need the pliers to separate them. Once we got to the top we spun it and started to take out one section of connectors at a time and spun in between each removal until we had them all removed. As you can see, we did not have a lot of lint. That is the lint that was stuck to the pipes as we blew our vent out a few months before. I plan to do this at least once a year. It takes about an hour. I feel great knowing that I can easily clean out that long pipe and prevent a fire. After we finished removing the last section, we did take our outdoor blower and blow out the vent again. There was some more lint that blew out that was loosened from the pipe walls, but had not come out with the tool. So, that was just an extra final push of whatever was remaining. I hope my long review wasn't too boring. My main comment would be, make sure you use drill in the direction that tightens the rods the entire time the rods are in the vent. That is the only way I can see this failing is if you use the drill in the wrong direction.