A laundry room with a front-load dryer in an older Chicago-area brick house with a basement laundry area, painted concrete floor and exposed pipes, seen close on the dryer's front, the room soft behind it.

Cook County, Chicago

Dryer repair in Winnetka.

Large houses here often have a main laundry room and a second one upstairs, with premium dryers on pedestals. Long vent runs through upper floors, and exterior hoods where frost and snow collect, deserve attention every winter.

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Three things about Winnetka
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What Winnetka does
to a dryer.

Winnetka's first houses were built in 1836, and the village was first subdivided in 1854.

Its oldest surviving house, the Schmidt-Burnham Log House, was moved to the Crow Island Woods in 2003.

At the 2020 census Winnetka had 4,459 housing units, 6.5 percent of them vacant.

A colonial Georgian house built in the 1920s at 671 Lincoln Avenue became known worldwide as the Home Alone house.

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Gated communities

Large homes in gated communities often have a full laundry room with the dryer on a pedestal, and sometimes a second pair upstairs near the bedrooms. Each dryer has its own vent run, and the upstairs one is usually the longer and harder to clean.

Designed laundry rooms

A designed laundry room often places the dryer where it looks best rather than where the vent is shortest, and a run that crosses a ceiling or turns several times is a common reason a new, high-end dryer takes too long.

A second dryer

A dryer added in a garage, basement or cabana to handle towels and linens works in harsher conditions than the main laundry, and its belt, rollers and thermal fuse tend to need attention sooner.