Kitchen Gas Appliances - LOTS of wet lint in dryer vent

I have a 10 month old gas dryer, and it was taking about 3 hours to dry a load a clothes. I had the vent supposedly cleaned out a few months ago, but it didn't help. Dryer is still under warranty, but repairman said the vent was the problem not the dryer.
I had another company come out today and they said there was a blockage of wet lint, and they couldn't do anything. Sears said over the phone they couldn't help either, and no one had recommendations.
I'm just looking for some advice on where else to try. If dryer vent companies can't help, what else is there? We haven't used the dryer in a week and a half, so it's scary that there's still wet lint in there.

Clean the lint out and inspect the vent to see if it should be repaired or replaced.

where is the wet lint?

did the repairman say what about the vent was the problem?

Just a bit of speculation but if the vent is undesized, has too many or too sharp of bends or the outlet is resticted (sometimes the doors don't work properly), it can cause the air to move too slowly and the lint will settle out.

also, if you have this much lint in the vent already, it sounds like the lint trap in the dryer is not in place.

I have come across where I presume it condenses out at just the right dew-point temp., and have acutally found water in dryer hoses and elbow area in basement that are filled with water like an aquarium. One lady had flex strung across the ceiling like a python snake and between each attachment to a cross joist it bellied way down, filled up with water. I mean, filled up! Another instance was with a line on basement floor behind Maytag dryer and it was all full of water back there.

You might have something going on like that only to a lesser degree, or water manages to run out some and evaporate.

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Questions such as these pose lots of problems trying to diagnose the cause. Much more specific details need to be known.

Dryer location. Dryers location in relationship to the outside discharge vent. Length of vent and type of venting material. Plastic flex or solid metal. Number of elbows. Distance up wards, if any. And several other factors. All of which can and do effect the dryers performance and can cause lint buildup, extend dry times, etc.

If it is possible for you to disassembly all or part of the venting system, do so. Inspect it and clean it out if possible or replace it. All else fails, a plumber is the next best choice to snake out the venting system or replace it if need be.

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Thanks for the quick responses. It's probably caused by a combination of things -lint trap on old dryer didn't go completely down, long vent going under the kitchen floor(about 40'). Townhouse is about 10 yrs old and i don't think the vents were ever cleaned. The repairman just said he sees this problem a lot in "places like this". Not sure what that means, but i think it's that Vegas houses are pretty much built like cr*p

The air duct cleaners did get out whatever they could for n/c, and i can at least feel some air coming out at the end now (there was nothing at all before). They shook out whatever water and lint was in the hose. The vent only has 1 bend where it goes down under the floor. I'm not sure where the main blockage is since they only went in to a certain point.

I just called roto rooter, and they said they don't do clogged dryer vents. I'll try a couple other plumbers, but any other suggestions? If the air duct cleaners AND plumbers have no suggestions I don't know who to go to. Please help!

, long vent going under the kitchen floor(about 40'). Townhouse is about 10 yrs old and i don't think the vents were ever cleaned.

Remember my post where I said water filled the duct like a python snake? Same situation. The dryer duct went through the floor, across basement ceiling in a townhouse across 3/4 length of the entire basement and likely condensed out in the duct. That is what happened at that place. I got it to stop by tying up the duct more level, by taking swags out.