What To Do With A Dryer Vent?
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Comments (5)The "Periscope" pipe or solution mentioned above is a quick fix, but they are surprisingly very very inefficient. At 7 minutes into the vid the fitting is tested (.50 wci of pressure delta). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFOHGVhmyQA name of vid: How to reduce your clothes drying time and save energy costs The Dryerbox option is more work, but if the retro fit box installation goes smoothly, the benefits are huge. Here are links to installation pictures and instructions: bottom of this page: http://www.dryerbox.com/photo_gallery.htm instructions: http://www.dryerbox.com/pages/retro/index-500.html Generally it takes about 30 minutes to complete....See MoreWhat do you think of these layouts?
Comments (19)There's additional length available to the kitchen that would allow a sunroom peninsula eating area to actually be placed in the current kitchen area (with a post at the door end supporting the roof), leaving the "sunroom galley" relatively spacious and comfortable for traffic--4 feet wide. I'd definitely open that wall entirely, giving the kitchen that lovely view outside, and with it light and charm, especially inviting as you walk out the (dark?) bedroom hall? Beyond this dramatic improvement, to also improve whole-house and rooms function at minimal cost, how about concentrating your expenditures now on making relatively minor changes to develop a functional layout that'll work well for you? This mostly by adding and moving doors/doorways and maybe plumbing as needed. I'd leave the kitchen door to the sunroom/back yard--important if the peninsula's to be used and for kitchen access to the back. Possibly also create another between the sunroom and den too, depending on how that served what you want the rooms to do. With no dead ends in these perimeter rooms,though, the family would circulate through use and them all, with the kitchen more heart-of-home and less a continuation of the bedroom hallway. The other door to move might be DRM to sunroom, slid up into that corner to keep traffic as out of your way as possible. Oh, A/C. Well, still desirable. It'd also give the DRM more pretty view and less kitchen-at-work. The fridge would have to move, of course, with that entire counter open to the windows. How about to the stove wall, where it would join counter area for lunch making, plus toaster, microwave, cereals, etc.--all the stuff you need out of the cooks' busy prep/cook area? Thus the entire current left side of the kitchen would be devoted to meal prep, cooking, and cleanup. On both sides, your current cabinets are units that can be taken down and reinstalled in other positions, allowing you to decide right now on the layout with greatest functionality and appeal to you, moving the cabinets and plumbing, etc., as needed to achieve that (whoops another expenditure now, but now's the time). Puzzle time! The end game would be that focusing specifically on rearrangement at this time--whether this or some other design entirely--would give you a very good functional layout now that you could then build on over time as you desired....See MoreIssues with Dryer and Dryer vent
Comments (14)Megan Morrill-Denton, several people here offering a lot of good points. Since you've cleaned your ducting, I can't think of any other ways to improve drying, and you've mentioned you really don't have any length to the outside except 10" - though if you've got the 'corrugated' type ducting, straight galvanized might help a little. You've also mentioned that the ducting to the dryer isn't kinked... so I've no further help on that other than to suggest you use electric foil tape when you connect it to the dryer - we only had the clamp initially and it did a poor job of holding the duct leak-free to the dryer. You mentioned a cold floor... we had that issue - the whole room actually. When we pulled out our old dryer, I noted cold air flooding from the corrugated duct coming out from the wall (actually placed a baggie over it, taped it close to keep cold air from flooding into the room - the baggie stayed puffed with air until we replaced the outdoor vent cap). I can't really speak for the Heartland style outdoor vent other than to say once we installed that, I noticed the baggie no longer inflated with air from the outside. That was a plus for us. We previously had the slat-style outdoor vent. As dadoes mentioned, it needs painted if you don't want it to stick out like a sore thumb (it's rather big), and I used a can of plastic approved Krylon Fusion paint from Lowe's for ours. Keeping any part of your ducting and vent cap clear of lint is important, and reduces fire hazards - sounds like you are doing this. Good luck on your situation....See MoreVented compact dryer - what to do before installing
Comments (7)wdccruise/dadoes - thank you but I’ll most likely get someone else to do it mxk3 - for a number of reasons, main ones being that I miss the efficiency of a vented dryer and I hate the way the dryer adds heat to the apartment. We originally had a Miele stacked, vented unit that was superb. They worked beautifully until the dryer gave up after 15years. Miele couldn’t fix it and recommended we “upgrade“ to their new ventless model. They also recommended we replace the washer although we had no issue with it. As we’ve always used Miele in different countries and trusted their appliances we went with their new ventless dryer/washer combo (t8023/w3038) despite misgivings about a ventless unit in an nyc apartment. The washer is fine but the dryer is frustrating to use as it takes longer to dry clothes, adds heat to the apartment and generates a layer of fluff/lint into the apartment. The dryer broke down 4 times in the first year of use and they replaced it. Their customer service was also very disappointing. I seem to have gone off on vent (!) about Miele when you only asked why we were planning to switch back! Hope I answered your question anyway...See Moremarciaz3 Tropical 3 Northwestern Ontario
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