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dryer venting: Good Thing This Dryer Vents Into The Attic, Cause It Sure Can't Vent Outdoors! - 02/16/12 05:42 AM
Good thing this dryer vents into the attic, cause it sure can't vent outdoors!
Combine a makeshift laundry room, with a holey (not holy) dryer vent, and the most interesting, but clogged, discharge outdoors I have ever seen and what do you have?
Well, for one thing, you have a lot of mold!
Interestingly, most of the mold was not near the dryer vent!
Most of the exhaust was blowing so much toward one end of the house, the end where the homeowner covered up that pesky vent hole on the side of the house, that the mold really developed there! … (73 comments)
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dryer venting: Where Oh Where Could The Dryer Vent Be? - 02/11/12 05:57 AM
Where oh where could the dryer vent be?
Sometimes you know a change has been made, but you don't know where.
This dryer vent has blown directly onto the AC compressor since the house was built. That would be 1979.
A dryer vent should not be within 12' or so of a compressor. Too close, as in this case here, and the compressor will draw in air while the dryer is venting its lint-laden exhaust. That can load up the fins with lint, clogging them, and robbing the compressor and AC system of efficiency. I have seen compressors look … (88 comments)
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dryer venting: Seven Ways To Kill Your Dryer - 08/06/11 06:53 AM
One of the most dangerous appliances in the house is the dryer. Not maintained, or incorrectly vented, it can burn the house down! And they do, tens of thousands of times a year in this country.
Can I introduce you to seven ways to kill your dryer?
In home inspector classes, we learn a lot of mumbo jumbo (sometimes it's jumbo mumbo). Actually it is usually pretty good information!
As regards dryers we learn things like: a dryer vent should extend no more than 25' vertically or horizontally from a dryer. And for every 90 degree turn, 5' should be reduced … (66 comments)
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dryer venting: Dryer Vents Through The Roof - 04/27/11 07:06 AM
I have noticed a trend in new construction which is gaining in popularity. That is to install dryer vents through the roof. This is a practice that really rubs me the wrong way.
Why am I so disapproving? Many reasons!
Out of sight, out of mind. My dryer vents under my rear deck. I see it all the time. As I see it I check it for build up of lint or bird nests. It isn't out of mind. It's up on the roof! It is often very far away and hard to see. If people can't see it clearly how … (31 comments)
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dryer venting: Double Whammy - 02/26/11 07:29 AM
I like to look at where sayings and phrases come from. Where did we get the term "double whammy?"
It means a double setback or a double blow. But when did it make it into our vernacular?
Apparently Al Capp used it in a "Lil'Abner" cartoon in 1951. "Evil-Eye Fleegle is th' name, an' th' 'whammy' is my game. Mudder Nature endowed me wit' eyes which can putrefy citizens t' th' spot!. There is th' 'single whammy'! That, friend, is th' full, pure power o' one o' my evil eyes! It's dynamite, friend, an' I do not t'row it around lightly! … (27 comments)
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dryer venting: Does An Old AC Compressor Turn Gray? - 06/20/10 07:34 AM
Everything gets old. Some things turn gray as they age.
Like this AC compressor. Poor thing. Getting old and gray, leaning a bit. It will only get older as the summer gets hotter.
Actually this AC unit is only 4 years old. Sure, it shouldn't lean, but that is an installation problem and an easy fix.
But why so gray?
Look under the gray box on the wall. The white trapezoid near the ground is the dryer discharge vent. The dryer is about 4' below that cover, just inside that wall.
THIS DISCHARGE IS TOO CLOSE TO THE AC COMPRESSOR! Why?
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dryer venting: The Most Dangerous Appliance In Your House - 11/10/09 08:06 PM
What do you think it is? The microwave? Toaster? Hot tub? Computer (for lots of reasons...)?
Actually, it is none of the above.
The most dangerous appliance in your house may be your dryer!
Think about it. Dryer fires cost Americans as much as $100 million annually! They result in almost 50,000 fires that require the fire department, and average 400 injuries and 15 fatalities - annually. They cause more fires than electrical problems. And 81% of them happen in residential homes. (1) That is dangerous!
Most dryer fires are reported in the laundry room. In the olden days, that meant … (22 comments)
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