Melissa wrote:
We would like to move our washer and dryer to a closet in the middle
of our house, so we can use the laundry room space to enlarge our
kitchen. The question is what to do with the exhaust vent for the
dryer. This closet runs right in the middle, under the highest point
in our roof, one floor, hip style roof. The inside ceilings are 8 ft
high, couldn't tell you how high the roof is as I've never been in
the attic. I'd be surprised if you can stand upright in the center
however. Given this lack of info, the appliance sales guy said I
might as well hang laundry out to dry on a line, that the exhaust
wouldn't be able to travel up that far well enough to allow the
clothes to dry quickly enough to be acceptable. Running the vent
without going into the ceiling at least would be an extremely
involved process. We can simply go into the ceiling then horizontally
out to one of the eaves, but that would add two more 90 degree turns.
Any thoughts?

It somehow sounds like your sales guy should stick to sales. It sounds
like he is worried about the fact that the exhaust is going up as opposed to
over. I have heard that one before, but given the the exhaust is warm, it
naturally rises and you could need less, not more effort to exhaust out the
roof straight up than the same total distance in any other direction,
especially if other directions required bends.

You dryer should have specifics about total distance, but most, as I
recall, allow about 50-90 total feet minus 10 feet for each 90º bend. You
should be fine going out the roof.

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Joseph Meehan

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