
Hello All!
A couple of weeks ago I came downstairs to our laundry room to a fairly strong burning smell. Deduced pretty quickly it came from our dryer. Had never had the vent cleaned since moving in so had that professionally done, it was fairly full but not entirely blocked. Ran the dryer again and got the same smell, definitely from inside the dryer. Took to google and found I can remove the vent pipe in the back and shop vac inside as there is likely build up of lint in there too. Did so and the inside was surprisingly clean except for this dark substance on the floor.
Any thoughts on what it could be/if it's the cause of the smell? I did a test run of the dryer (empty load on high heat for 5 or so minutes) after finding this substance and didn't smell anything. But just wanted to get some second advice before running the dryer as normal again.
Thanks!