While you’re doing this, I highly recommend getting the dryer vent clean kit at Lowes or HD. It is cheap, attaches to a drill and will clean out the pipe all the way back (better if you have a vacuum attached to it). I pulled out over a cubic foot of lint when we moved into the house (no warm air had been going out), and that was a real fire hazard. I try to do it about once a year now, because our vent has several bends/elbows in it (stupidly).
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