Placement of a dryer vent question for the pros on here!?
Question:First, thanks in advance for the answers... :)
We are installing a washer dryer in our first floor utility room. Is it alright to vent the dryer into the basement instead of outside?
This is an old house, the basement is only used for the furnace, HWH, and water systems, otherwise there is nothing down there. (Dirt floor, stone walls, 6' ceiling, and runs the whole length of the house, it's a big space.)
If I vent the dryer outside it will be open directly to wear our prevailing winds come in, and in the winter that will be brutal!
I really don't want an open hole on that side of the house.
Answers:
No Ma'am.
Also, it's against building code besides being a bad idea.
You utlilities down there need a clean atmoshpere for combustion.
If you use the right dryer vent kit, the prevailing cold winds will not bother you whatsoever.
With the correct dryer vent kit, there will be no open hole because they stay closed except when the dryer is blowing.
You should be able to seal off the hole in your wall, besides, its not going to be that critical. I wouldnt suggest venting anything into your basement, its going to blow tons of lint and dust into your basement...Most houses have a outside vent, its not that big of a deal.
If this is a gas dryer it must be vented outside no question. If it is an electric dryer and you vent it into the basement you are going to pump moist hot air down there that can cause the wood beams to grow mold , which you don't want at all. The dryer vents are capped with louvres to block outside wind from blowing into the house
no, absolutely not,every vent should go outside due to carbon monoxide poisoning, or moisture,which creates mold and rot.
first of all, it is dangerous to vent a dryer indoors because of lint vapor IS combustable
but, there is a safeish way to do it if you MUST, if you vent it into a bucket of cold water(there is actually commercially made kits that do this, they arnt legal in ALL states though because they only reduce the risk), your best bet is to vent it outside(even using flexible ducting to a window would work)
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