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Cloths dryer vents????
A friend posted this question on another message board and I thought I'd ask
here as well...Thanks for any help... Clothes Dryer "make-up-air" After reading about it, I have come to realize that a clothes dryer will suck the warm air out of your living area in very short order. I believe I read the internal fans are in the range of 500 ft3/min, which means that when they run for 45 minutes or so to dry your clothes, they are emptying the rest of the place of warm air several times over, and pulling air down the chimney as need be, ruining a fire if you have one going. I'm hoping that the salt of the earth types on AMG can vector me to dryer make up air venting kits/designs to solve this problem Our dryer is in a separate laundry room on the first floor, with a window. When I know it is running, I open the window a few inches and close the door, and put a draft stopper across the bottom. I think this helps, but there must be a better solution. The wife will not stand for putting the dryer in the garage, so don't offer up those options. What I need is a convenient kit/design for pulling the air from the outside directly into the dryer, rather than having it suck air from the general living area. Any ideas or information? Thanks |
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Cloths dryer vents????
On Feb 19, 7:43�pm, "benick" wrote:
A friend posted this question on another message board and I thought I'd ask here as well...Thanks for any help... Clothes Dryer "make-up-air" After reading about it, I have come to realize that a clothes dryer will suck the warm air out of your living area in very short order. I believe I read the internal fans are in the range of 500 ft3/min, which means that when they run for 45 minutes or so to dry your clothes, they are emptying the rest of the place of warm air several times over, and pulling air down the chimney as need be, ruining a fire if you have one going. I'm hoping that the salt of the earth types on AMG can vector me to dryer make up air venting kits/designs to solve this problem Our dryer is in a separate laundry room on the first floor, with a window. When I know it is running, I open the window a few inches and close the door, and put a draft stopper across the bottom. I think this helps, but there must be a better solution. The wife will not stand for putting the dryer in the garage, so don't offer up those options. What I need is a convenient kit/design for pulling the air from the outside directly into the dryer, rather than having it suck air from the general living area. Any ideas or information? Thanks hey theres a energy waster i havent seen addressed. perhaps incoming air at zero degrees might use much more energy to get it to drying temp? other devices like a furnace extract the heat, wheres a dryer uses the heat directly in the air stream |
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"benick" wrote in message . .. A friend posted this question on another message board and I thought I'd ask here as well...Thanks for any help... Clothes Dryer "make-up-air" After reading about it, I have come to realize that a clothes dryer will suck the warm air out of your living area in very short order. I believe I read the internal fans are in the range of 500 ft3/min, which means that when they run for 45 minutes or so to dry your clothes, they are emptying the rest of the place of warm air several times over, and pulling air down the chimney as need be, ruining a fire if you have one going. Build a heat exchanger, so any incoming air is routed around the outside of the dryer pipe to pick up heat. Just be sure to compensate for condensation in the dryer pipe. |
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The wife will not stand for putting the dryer in the garage, so don't offer up those options. What I need is a convenient kit/design for pulling the air from the outside directly into the dryer, rather than having it suck air from the general living area. You can always simply run an air vent to the dryer in approximately the right place, and it will help somewhat. But, it'll probably be a net power loss (air flow when unit off). There are heat exchangers designed for dryers. The dryer exhaust is sent out of the house thru something that preheats incoming air from the exhaust heat. These are in concept the same things as HRVs (heat recovery ventilators) used to provide positive air circulation in a house without dumping too much furnace heat. HOWEVER, standard HRVs can't tolerate the lint volumes and will plug themselves in no time flat. The ones designed for clothes dryers are somewhat more complicated (rotating drum lint traps etc), and are very seldom appropriate for anything short of commercial laundrymats. They're not cheap at all. Like $3k or more. There are methods by which you can run the exhaust of dryers (electric ONLY!) thru a water trap to capture the lint, and meanwhile keep the air indoors. They work, but can be more trouble than they're worth. -- Chris Lewis, Age and Treachery will Triumph over Youth and Skill It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them. |
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benick wrote:
A friend posted this question on another message board and I thought I'd ask here as well...Thanks for any help... Clothes Dryer "make-up-air" After reading about it, I have come to realize that a clothes dryer will suck the warm air out of your living area in very short order. I believe I read the internal fans are in the range of 500 ft3/min, which means that when they run for 45 minutes or so to dry your clothes, they are emptying the rest of the place of warm air several times over, and pulling air down the chimney as need be, ruining a fire if you have one going. I'm hoping that the salt of the earth types on AMG can vector me to dryer make up air venting kits/designs to solve this problem Our dryer is in a separate laundry room on the first floor, with a window. When I know it is running, I open the window a few inches and close the door, and put a draft stopper across the bottom. I think this helps, but there must be a better solution. The wife will not stand for putting the dryer in the garage, so don't offer up those options. What I need is a convenient kit/design for pulling the air from the outside directly into the dryer, rather than having it suck air from the general living area. Any ideas or information? 1. Clothesline. 2. I've got a dryer exhaust valve on mine. One position of the flap and the dryer vent air goes outside. Turn it the other way and it exhausts into the house. |
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Cloths dryer vents????
HeyBub wrote:
benick wrote: A friend posted this question on another message board and I thought I'd ask here as well...Thanks for any help... Clothes Dryer "make-up-air" After reading about it, I have come to realize that a clothes dryer will suck the warm air out of your living area in very short order. I believe I read the internal fans are in the range of 500 ft3/min, which means that when they run for 45 minutes or so to dry your clothes, they are emptying the rest of the place of warm air several times over, and pulling air down the chimney as need be, ruining a fire if you have one going. I'm hoping that the salt of the earth types on AMG can vector me to dryer make up air venting kits/designs to solve this problem Our dryer is in a separate laundry room on the first floor, with a window. When I know it is running, I open the window a few inches and close the door, and put a draft stopper across the bottom. I think this helps, but there must be a better solution. The wife will not stand for putting the dryer in the garage, so don't offer up those options. What I need is a convenient kit/design for pulling the air from the outside directly into the dryer, rather than having it suck air from the general living area. Any ideas or information? 1. Clothesline. 2. I've got a dryer exhaust valve on mine. One position of the flap and the dryer vent air goes outside. Turn it the other way and it exhausts into the house. Do you have a lint trap on the in-house exhaust? (like one of those water-bucket things?) If not, you aren't doing your lungs or your furnace any favors. Depending on the clothes being dried, you could be spiking the dust and microfiber count in your inside air bigtime. aem sends... |
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"benick" wrote in message After reading about it, I have come to realize that a clothes dryer will suck the warm air out of your living area in very short order. I believe I read the internal fans are in the range of 500 ft3/min, which means that when they run for 45 minutes or so to dry your clothes, they are emptying the rest of the place of warm air several times over, and pulling air down the chimney as need be, ruining a fire if you have one going. First off, the 500 cfm is bogus. http://www.whirlpool.com/assets/pdfs.../W10100920.pdf Venting systems for Whirlpool dryers must meet the following requirements: ¦ The capacity to handle 200 CFM of air for each dryer in the system. ¦ A back pressure of 0.0" (0 cm) to 0.6" (1.5 cm) of water column when measured at the connection to the dryer. From my observations of years of having a dryer, there is not all that much air sucked out and it has never changed the fire one flicker worth. Try it out before you go to drastic lengths to solve what is a non-problem. |
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Cloths dryer vents????
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1. Clothesline. 2. I've got a dryer exhaust valve on mine. One position of the flap and the dryer vent air goes outside. Turn it the other way and it exhausts into the house. Do you have a lint trap on the in-house exhaust? (like one of those water-bucket things?) If not, you aren't doing your lungs or your furnace any favors. Depending on the clothes being dried, you could be spiking the dust and microfiber count in your inside air bigtime. Yes. There's a little screen over the hole. Have to clean it every two or three loads. As for spiking the dust and microfiber count, you may be right. I don't care. Worry about things like that are for pussies. |
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On Feb 19, 6:43*pm, "benick" wrote:
A friend posted this question on another message board and I thought I'd ask here as well...Thanks for any help... Clothes Dryer "make-up-air" After reading about it, I have come to realize that a clothes dryer will suck the warm air out of your living area in very short order. I believe I read the internal fans are in the range of 500 ft3/min, which means that when they run for 45 minutes or so to dry your clothes, they are emptying the rest of the place of warm air several times over, and pulling air down the chimney as need be, ruining a fire if you have one going. I'm hoping that the salt of the earth types on AMG can vector me to dryer make up air venting kits/designs to solve this problem Our dryer is in a separate laundry room on the first floor, with a window. When I know it is running, I open the window a few inches and close the door, and put a draft stopper across the bottom. I think this helps, but there must be a better solution. The wife will not stand for putting the dryer in the garage, so don't offer up those options. What I need is a convenient kit/design for pulling the air from the outside directly into the dryer, rather than having it suck air from the general living area. Any ideas or information? Thanks What's wrong with opening the window? You need 100 cubic inches of opening for the make-up air to be sufficient. Alisa LeSueur Certified Dryer Exhaust Technician http://CleanYourOwnDryerVent.com |
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