Second venting the clothes dryer into the basement takes the moisture out of the clothes that the dryer is drying and discharges that back into the home.
2nd floor dryer vent.
Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat.
You won t have to spend a lot of time or money and you ll safeguard against an upstairs flood.
I had wanted to vent the dryer by simply coming off the back of the dryer going up to the the 2nd floor ceiling with the 4 dryer vent pipe turn along the ceiling with a 90 degree elbo and head out the side of the house.
Vent the dryer with 4 in.
My dryer vent goes from the second story to the roof.
Figuring out how to install our dryer vent in the middle of our house was a bit of a challenge.
The dirty clothing sheets and towels that make up 95 of our laundry are generated on the second floor so having the laundry room upstairs eliminates the lugging of laundry baskets up and down the stairs.
You can easily access.
The total length of vent pipe from back of dryer to exit at side of house is less than 10.
It s basically a closet that fits the two machines only with very limited space front to ba.
To make the dyer more efficient you can buy an inexpensive heat diverter and install it in the exhaust duct of electric dryers only not gas dryers you ll save about 50 worth of heat per load in the winter.
My washer and dryer are located on the second floor of a two floor townhouse with crawlspace foundation.
We ll show you four diy steps to prevent a water catastrophe such as adding a washing machine pan.
I can t be the first homeowner that said he didn t want to clean out a second or third floor dryer vent every three months.
Currently it goes 8 feet.
Second floor laundry rooms can create a lot of damage if the wash machine leaks.
Luckily there s a product that allows you to go down through.
No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.
Metal duct going vertically from the dryer through the second floor ceiling.
2 have others heard of placing a dryer vent in such a spot.
If not where in the heck do you put an exterior dryer vent on a second floor.
Seal the ceiling penetration so that the duct can expand in length as it heats up during use a standard roof boot such as you d use to flash a vent pipe would work.
But we don t recommend it for two reasons.
The problem is that i can t reach the roof.