My beloved Revlon hair dryer caught on fire

[Anonymous]

Mine is over ten years old and my backup is going on five - never opened. I do agree you have to look to see if the mesh filter is blocked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is your meshed air intake not blocked? No 1. cause of overheating

This. They get covered in dust. You have to take a pair of tweezers and peel off the layer of lint that accumulates there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ yep, check this out and that is from just searing revelon hair dryer dangers : https://www.classaction.org/hair-dryer-fire-sparking-melting-lawsuit

Note all the brands they are looking at : Attorneys are specifically looking into hair dryers sold under the following brand names: Revlon, Conair, Helen of Troy, Drybar, GHD, Dyson, Hot Tools, Harry Josh, CHI, Paul Mitchell, BaBylissPRO, and InStyler.

It makes sense, a lot of these are either owned by the same company (e.g. Conair/Babyliss) or get their parts from the same suppliers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is your meshed air intake not blocked? No 1. cause of overheating

This. They get covered in dust. You have to take a pair of tweezers and peel off the layer of lint that accumulates there.

OP here. I always clean the mesh filter with tweezers.

[Anonymous]

This is very scary, thank you for posting! DCUM has made me want to try this, but I haven’t bought one yet. If I do, I will be very careful. Thanks, OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I’ve had this happen before with a fancy one. I think it’s from the west and tear ok the wiring. I don’t mean using it a lot, I mean the banging the unit in a drawer, dropping on the counter/floor, lacing it hard on the counter, etc. I don’t know for sure, but I think it comes from that.

You really bang your hairdryer around like that?? Wouldn’t it damage your cabinets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is your meshed air intake not blocked? No 1. cause of overheating

+1. If you clean this, you will bring longer life to the unit bc it will not overheat as easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I’ve had this happen before with a fancy one. I think it’s from the west and tear ok the wiring. I don’t mean using it a lot, I mean the banging the unit in a drawer, dropping on the counter/floor, lacing it hard on the counter, etc. I don’t know for sure, but I think it comes from that.

You really bang your hairdryer around like that?? Wouldn’t it damage your cabinets?

NP and I sure do, but I have an ugly bathroom with tiny tiled floor, laminate countertop and 70s plywood cabinet.

My revlon round brush dryer is currently on my bathroom floor, having rolled out of the lone cabinet. It’s usually too hot to put away after use…

[Anonymous]

Mine just caught fire in my hand burning my fingers and gave off a terrible smell. Loved that dryer too.

[Anonymous]

Mine also made popping noises and burnt smells after 5 years of use. I didn’t know about cleaning the filter but the bristles were almost all melted off. Plus, like the other OP, I’ve dropped it before. So I discarded it and bought a new one. Now I feel lucky it didn’t overheat!

[Anonymous]

I threw away my revlon dryer for the same reason (no fire yet) after a couple of years of use. It made me too nervous. I'm glad I didn't keep it!

[Anonymous]

The same thing happened to the one I bought on Amazon, because it turned out to be counterfeit. I bought another from Target and it’s been fine for years.

Where did you buy yours?

[Anonymous]

Have you all reported that fire to Revlon?

[Anonymous]

I love my Shark round brush. It has is a hair dryer, but also a heated brush. Great for second day hair.