Which type of outside dryer vent is best.
What does an outdoor dryer vent look like.
Use no more than 25 ft.
Keep in mind these rules of thumb.
I have looked everywhere outside to see where the blasted thing vents out to.
They disconnect and pull the dryer out install a large blower on the vent and blow brush vacuum and or dismantle whatever it takes to get the vent clean.
To understand how the dryer vent works you first need to understand what is happening to the air inside your dryer.
Try this experiment every time you do a load of laundry pour 1 5 cups of water on a piece of plywood.
That s when it moves up through the home and condenses on cold surfaces causing the conditions i ve.
Duct and subtract 5 ft.
The most commonly seen improper type of dryer vent is flexible vinyl tubing.
For every 90 degree turn and 2 1 2 feet for every 45 degree turn for dryer vent installation.
A clothes dryer is a major energy consumer and a leaky outdoor vent cover is a significant contributor.
Look in your yellow pages under duct cleaning or search the internet.
I could not find any pipes vents that showed any sign of being connected to the dryer.
I had never seen anything like it in all my years.
It is recommended that the moisture is.
The winter is the worst time to dump that much moisture into a home.
Eventually the roof sheathing starts to look like shredded wheat.
Because all types are sold for use with dryers you would naturally assume that all are suitable for this application.
During a normal drying cycle up to a gallon of water may be drawn out of the clothes in the form of water vapor.
The air travels down the vent to the outdoors.
Some are flexible and others are rigid.
Most dryer ducts are round and 4 inches in diameter.
The entire 25 feet of the vent pipe from the old dryer location to the exterior vent hood was choked with lint.
Does anyone know where else i should be looking.
That moisture must go somewhere.
The air is pulled in and heated by electric elements then sent through the clothes and pulled out by a fan and into the vent.
Dryer vent installation can be a bit of a challenge.
As you know clothes dryers operate by extracting moisture from clothes through heat and tumbling action.
Dryer vent pipes properly called vent ducts come in a variety of materials.
The shorter the distance and fewer the turns the better for dryer vent installation.
Ventless or non vented dryers use a holding tank that must be emptied regularly to collect the water and vented dryers expel the moisture through a vent duct into the air.
A poor sealing vent cover can also let insects rodents and allergy causing particles.
