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Dumb dryer question
Many many years ago my grandmother had a fancy device for utilizing the hot
air in her walk-up attic to dry clothes. I think the technical term for it was "Clothes Line". wrote in message ... We all have plenty to say about what you do with dryer exhaust. What about intake air? Why not pull it from the attic? Where I live you could probably run the dryer on "air fluff" and dry stuff vitrtually free 9 months of the year. You probaly need another blower and a filter wiould probably be nice. Upside? Downside? |
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wrote in message news On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:05:57 -0500, "John Grabowski" wrote: Many many years ago my grandmother had a fancy device for utilizing the hot air in her walk-up attic to dry clothes. I think the technical term for it was "Clothes Line". That is the right idea but with a 3:12 attic you could only hang Barbie clothes The reason I am considering this is the attic cruises at 130 f and the house is air conditioned. By using the house air I am paying to cool it down, then paying to heat it back up again at the same time that getting unused hot air out of the attic is a problem. I understand what you are trying to accomplish and it is a good idea to make use of the hot air. However to retrofit an existing structure may be more costly than the savings gain as well as being unattractive. You should look into solar houses and structures like that which are designed from the ground up to utilize the natural forces for heating and cooling. Having spent many days in hot attics on wiring jobs I can tell you from experience that the only thing that I have seen that brings a residential attic down to a decent temperature is a whole house fan. The homeowners who have them love them. On hot days when there is low humidity they turn on the whole house fan, open the windows and the house is quite comfortable. Those roof mounted mushroom fans help somewhat to bring the temperature down, but the attic is still hot. |
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Dumb dryer question
Our garage on So. Calif coast was 10° above adjacent concrete slab and
during reroofing job I had a turbine installed, less than $25.00 no motor. Now garage is 10° cooler than slab. No problems in about 10 years so far. On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:17:00 -0500, wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:05:57 -0500, "John Grabowski" wrote: Many many years ago my grandmother had a fancy device for utilizing the hot air in her walk-up attic to dry clothes. I think the technical term for it was "Clothes Line". That is the right idea but with a 3:12 attic you could only hang Barbie clothes The reason I am considering this is the attic cruises at 130 f and the house is air conditioned. By using the house air I am paying to cool it down, then paying to heat it back up again at the same time that getting unused hot air out of the attic is a problem. |
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