"lbbs" wrote:

I imagine putting some find of a filter at the end of the vent house would
do the trick, and direct the vent into the laundry room. Some one
mentioned that the added humidity in the room might actually make the drying
process take longer (it need dry air). Although in my case might not be a
problem because the room is very large (24x24). Anyone ever tried this,
did it work good, any problems? Thanks

Our compressor coil for the heat pump sits outside near the dryer vent. Every
few months I have to clean the fins on the side near the vent. No way would I
vent dryer air into a living space, unless it was super-filtered. With a basic
filter, the dust increase would be large, and the lung associations have
regularly shown that tiny particles of chemicals can be very damaging to the
lungs. Breathing in detergent and fabric softener isn't my cuppa tea.

A heat exchanger that would warm the incoming replacement air makes more sense
to me. For every cubic foot of air the dryer exhausts to the outside, it pulls
in a cubic foot of cold outside air - or in our case in south Florida, hot
humid outside air.