Shopvac or regular vacuum cleaner?

Maybe start with the basics ?

There's a dryer screen that needs to be pulled & cleaned every load or two. Gotta do that one or the dryer will plug up and catch fire.

You have to clean the vent hose coming out the back about once a year. That's always a difficult connection to make tight. You want to use a 4" hose clamp or long wire tie to hold the vent hose in place.

One of those weird things: Some of the dryers are set up to shoot straight out the back. Some are set up with a wye or a tee so that you can shoot to the side or even straight down as well as out the back. You just plug the outlet that you're not using. Anyway .... it's something to check. Sometimes those plugs will come loose and discharge straight into the room where the dryer is.



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A shop vac is about the best thing for cleaning. I deal with a lot of toxic nasties so i use the filter AND the high performance(yellow) vac bags that you can buy for them. For regular dust the white vacuum cleaner bags would work well enough.

The big thing is to have some kind of filter inside the shop vac. That way the dust that you're picking up isn't getting picked up, going through the machine, and getting tossed back up into the air again.