Stretch wrote:

International Mechanical Code:

Section 913.2 Exhaust Required. Clothes dryers shall be exhausted in
accordance with Section 504.

Section 504.4 Exhaust installation. Dryer exhaust ducts for clothes
dryers shall terminate on the outside of the building and shall be
equiped with a backdraft damper...... Clothes dryer exhaust ducts shall
not be connected to a vent connector, vent or chimney.
See also sections 504.5, 504.6, 504.61, 504.62, 504.7.

Wow. Can we install the damper backwards, after an open T in the house?

And if the guy who dries his clothes by the woodstove loosely stacked in
laundry baskets were to bring his electric dryer back out of the rain into
the house and put it near the woodstove and stack the clothes loosely inside,
with no power applied, would he have to comply with section 504.4?

What if he turned on the tumbler motor without the electric heating elements?

Or put his clothes in a closet with a $12 heater and a humidistat?

Do the International Mechanical Code police often visit houses?

Are they something like The Spanish Inquisition?

Nick