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Miele T9800 dryer vent/duct sound insulation
Comments (1)Depending on the length of the run it may be advantageous to cover the ducting with sound dampening material used in the car industry for stereo sound system. There are many brands to choose from, but since the material itself is expensive I would choose the least expensive. Even at that the sound deadening material will be substantially more expensive than the ducting. Here are some examples of the sound deadening material: Dyn-o-Mat Fatmat Sound Control...See MoreLong-vent dryer in regular vent installation
Comments (2)You'll probably just get higher air volume and a slightly lower temperature. Drying should be just as good or better. It makes perfect sense. If long vent dryers didn't perform well in shorter applications the manufacturers would probably caution against it in their manuals....See MoreIssue with Dryer venting to Soffit/Eave Vent
Comments (5)ISTM that there are two issues at work here. The first is that you are smelling unburnt gas in the house. Someone needs to find out why. Is there a leaky connection leading up to the dryer or is there an internal failure that's allowing unburnt gas to escape? Or, maybe, there's an insignificant amount of gas released when the dryer heater lights off. I'd expect the utility tech to determine which, though I wouldn't expect him to be able to do much about an internal failure other than advise you to call an appliance repair service. Secondly, and the one the utility company keyed on, there's a maximum allowable back-pressure for exhaust from the dryer (.4" WC or more, depending on total duct length) in order to keep exhaust gasses from remaining in the house. I doubt the technician measured it, but rather made an assumption based on the apparent design....See MoreDryer: Vented with long duct run or ventless?
Comments (8)We have a ventless Blomberg heat pump dryer in a smallish basement bathroom and I haven't noticed any particular heat or humidity issue. The cycle takes longer than a vented dryer, which I don't find to be a big deal. Humidity shouldn't be a problem with a condensing dryer, since the water from the clothes, by definition, condenses and drains into a tank or down the same drain as the washer water (ours does the latter, so no tank to empty). Also, I suspect that heat is less of an issue just because of the way the technology works. As far as I understand, a vented dryer adds heat through a gas or electric heating element; a heat pump dryer, on the other hand, just moves heat from one part of a coil to another, with the hot part heating air in the drum which is then blown over the cold coils to condense out the water. Since heat isn't actually being added, the hot and cold parts of the cycle should largely be a wash (ha, laundry humor). I'm not sure how condensing dryers work if they AREN'T the heat pump variety, so I can't opine on heat from that kind of a dryer....See Moredadoes
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