So last year sometime I noticed it was taking like 3 hours to dry a load of laundry. Frankly, I was getting pretty irritated at the slowness of the beast and I couldn't figure out what was going on. My genius husband had the brilliant idea to see what the lint trap looked like, and, well, here it is folks. Problem solved. By the way, it's a good idea to clean that thing out every few loads...just so ya know.