On Sep 6, 7:14*am, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote:
"Molly Brown" wrote



Is your vent hole opening to the outside higher than where it connects
to the dryer? Ideally it should be either lower or at least the same
height to keep lint from being trapped in the duct

I've never seen one that was not higher. *How do you make it the same or
lower if the dryer is in a basement or on a slab and the outlet is 4" above
slab?

If the dryer is in the basement there is nothing you can do however as
long as the sill plate is not higher than 1 ½” above the slab there is
no reason you can’t make the outlet come out on top of it, but a lot
of installers don’t want to bother being that accurate so they just
make a hole any old place and take the money and run. What some people
do is frame a pedestal for the dryer which has the added advantage of
not having to crouch down when using it.