RD wrote:

My builder vented my dryer (gas) into my garage. I suppose this was
within code but this seems like a really bad idea. My garage is always
too hot and humid despite my efforts to open the garage doors and/or
windows while the dryer is running. Also, the lint is the pain in the
___ - making the garage constantly dusty. I'd like to re-rout the vent
outside. Any suggestions on an easy way to do this? The current vent
location is such that I would need to go around a door before directing
the vent to the back of the house. Due to the thickness of dryer vent
pipe, it seems that I wouldn't want to run this within the walls,
right? I guess I would have to run the vent exposed in the garage?

Any help is appreciated.



Something is fishy here. A gas dryer vented into a garage is going
to put potentially dangerous products-of-combustion into the garage in
addition to all the damp, dusty air. I would think that this would be
a serious code violation that the builder should deal with. You
wouldn't vent an ordinary gas furnace into a garage. Why would you do
this with a gas dryer?

If the dryer is at ground level and you have a crawlspace or basement,
I would think you would want to route it down and out to the nearest
wall.

Beachcomber