By MyPros Staff

Do you own a washer and dryer combo, yet find yourself hanging your clothes up on a laundry line? If so, you need dryer repair. St. Louis homeowners are discovering the same dryer maintenance fact on a regular basis: you need to clean your dryer's lint filter whenever you dry a load of clothes. As dirt accumulates in the filter, the dryer will take longer and longer to dry its load, and will waste more and more energy. More importantly, a dirty lint filter can cause significant wear and tear on other parts of the machine. The dryer has a fairly large number of mechanical components that wear out over time, and will wear out faster if they are overstressed.

For example, your dryer belt, dryer motor, or dryer pulley wheel may need to be fixed or replaced. If you don't feel comfortable doing this job yourself, you will need to call for professional dryer repair.

St. Louis service professionals report a host of other issues that could potentially go wrong with your dryer. If the heating element in your dryer burns out, or the thermal fuse blows, or the thermostat malfunctions, your dryer will "run," in the sense that the clothes will tumble around inside," but it will not be able to dry your clothes.

Furthermore, mechanical parts of your dryer seemingly unrelated to the actual drying process may malfunction, causing you to need dryer repair. St. Louis dryers, like all dryers, are equipped with door switches and start switches and timers. If these don't work, the dryer doesn't work.