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Dryer Vent Question
Our dryer lies alongside our exterior wall and I wished to get folks’s opinion on whether or not it is price re-routing the vent from the roof to the outside wall. Would love to listen to the professionals and cons.
Thanks!
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It will have be costlier and complex to exit the exhaust via a roof vent so there might have been causes for it. There will be constructing codes about how distant from an adjoining window an exhaust bent must be.
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By new, do you imply new to you or model new? A dryer ought to have a filter to forestall lint from entering into the vent. Clear the filter after every drying cycle and you should have no issues.
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jts402 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 6:56 pm
My spouse and I moved into a brand new home the place our second ground dryer vent exited via the roof. The dryer lately gave us a blockage alert and we had a chimney sweep clear the vent from the roof. They discovered the vent to be lined thick layer of lint and no air was coming via till they eliminated it.Our dryer lies alongside our exterior wall and I wished to get folks’s opinion on whether or not it is price re-routing the vent from the roof to the outside wall. Would love to listen to the professionals and cons.
Thanks!
Our dryer is on the second ground and vents via the outside wall. Home is 1988 development. Vent has a flapper on it, lint would construct up across the flapper hinge, stop it from closing and birds would construct nests within the vent duct. I long-established a display out of 1/4″ hen wire and solved the nesting drawback. Often (about yearly) I get on a ladder, take away the display, clear out the duct with a dryer vent brush and reinstall the display.
We all the time clear the dryer’s lint display.
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cheese_breath wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:21 pm
By new, do you imply new to you or model new? A dryer ought to have a filter to forestall lint from entering into the vent. Clear the filter after every drying cycle and you should have no issues.
We clear the dryer filter every time and the vent nonetheless will get blocked with lint. Since it’s inaccessible for us, now we have it cleaned out each 3 years or so.
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A clue! Are you in a location the place there is a freeze- thaw cycle? If that’s the case, rerouting is a particular choice. In any other case, take a store vac and clear it out a couple of times a 12 months.
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I’d not reroute the dryer vent.
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In the event you re-route, then simply ensure rats and squirrels cannot get to the opening and chew via the opening flaps.
Was the vent cleaned earlier than you moved in? Was the lint from the earlier house owners?
Additionally I’m wondering if the vent tube is accessible from contained in the attic, in order that one wouldn’t need to go up on the roof to scrub it. These conduits are sometimes simply “press match”, so it ought to have been trivial to scrub it from inside the home.
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cheese_breath wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:21 pm
By new, do you imply new to you or model new? A dryer ought to have a filter to forestall lint from entering into the vent. Clear the filter after every drying cycle and you should have no issues.
Hmm, no. We clear our dryer vent each single time, and I used to be completely gobsmacked once I employed a man to blow it out – there was a blizzard of lint and dirt on the bottom, and he stuffed a vac bag fully. Granted, this was years of construct up, however nonetheless … You should have LESS dryer lint if you happen to clear the filter, however tons nonetheless will get out.
I can not think about why anybody would put a dryer vent vertically up via a roof, with out good motive. It has to blow loads tougher, and there WILL be plenty of lint simply falling again in…. dangerous design. If potential, vent it horizontally to the closest cheap exit. And get a hard and fast non-accordian pipe.
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We needed to have our duct work re-routed when a deck was rebuilt and we needed to adhere to code. We have got no less than 15 toes of duct work. Perhaps each 3 years or so, I pull it aside and clear it fully. I let it go about 4 years and it gave a blocked duct warning. Completely, if you happen to can shorten the vent, do it.
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AnEngineer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:59 pm+1
My first response was why would you go as much as the roof if you’re already at an exterior wall?
+2.
I wish to hold that dryer vent as brief and as horizontal as potential. And I agree with the opposite poster about cleansing it on a daily schedule, if it tends to get blocked up with lint. It is a hearth hazard.
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Please describe the bodily vent seen on the roof. Does it have a self-closing flapper? Is it rain-proof? Is the ducting (invisible) principally a straight line? Does clothes forgotten within the dryer get chilly or damp from the climate?
