"Owain" wrote in message
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"Andy Hall" wrote
| "IMM" wrote:
| I think you woulf have to be pretty anal to get that worried
| about it. We are not talking steam train here! Probably no
| more dramatic that a boiling kettle.
| You have to be kidding. My condenser in winter when starting up
| can give a plume about 2 to 3 foot long and very thick. Have one
| of these a few foot from your flat window and you will be ****ed
| off.
| Throw it away and buy a decent one.....

Are these things any worse than a tumble dryer vent (the sort of people
who
hang the hose out of their ground-floor flat windows seem obsessed with
fragancing every passer-by with the Fresh Smell of Bounce)?

The plume can be quite thick and if near a window gives he appearance of
smoke passing. If too near it may enter a room. I see many problems with
these in flats, especially the older converted house types.