Anyone an appliance repairman?

[CoventryCat86]

Here's an idea, try disconnecting the vent pipe. Yep, it will make your basement awfully damp for the test run but that will rule out a venting problem.

 

[Gunpowder]

Two cycles? Sorry missed the word two in your post.

Yep you got a problem. Is it heating up enough? You may have a heating element that has given out or is about to. If air is circulating it is probably a heating element.

Some only take the 70 minutes...others two 70 minute cycles. Maybe I am just impatient but since my wife has cancer we had several people from church come in to help out and all said it was way too slow compared to theirs.

Or I may just have too long of a vent run. I tend to think it is either too long of a run or the cloths are too wet going into the dryer meaning I should look at a washer with a faster spin cycle to get more water out.

My vent leaves the dryer and then makes a 90 (1)down into the basement, then makes a 90 (2) to the next floor joist, a 90 (3) up and to just below the floor then a 90 (4) and then travels to the outside wall. Hey I didn't design the house.

Seems if I could cut a 90 out and maybe a few feet by going down (1) then direct to the outside wall diagonally to the next joist. Then 90 (2)up and 90 (3) out. Makes enclosing that portion of the basement out for the future but the rest of the plumbing makes that difficult anyways.