It's almost Lent, but I have no lint in the house

Well the dryer saga draws to a clothes........I'm not sure if we told you about why we wanted the dryer to vent outside.  I have terrible allergies, and the lint floating around the house does nothing to help them. It is everywhere, My pockets, the walls, under the dryer, my belly button......how about some pictures - of the dryer (not my belly button.)

First using a key hole saw I cut the hole on the inside of the house, I thought my arm was going to fall off by the time I was finished, but then I had to do the outside

Now that I had a gaping hole letting cold air into the house i had to clog it

I covered the hole with a vent that had a flap that closed when no air was being blown against it.

I put a bag over the pipe to prevent any draft from sneaking in, Lily wasn't sure what to think of it. She grumbled a little and  looked over the bag carefully

                                                                                    
 

But after some primer, paint, and caulk, the dryer was ready for its new home.

And there it is, next to the washer like it should be.

Stay tuned for now I have to fix the peeling paint on the ceiling. It is proving to be a larger task than I thought...

Comments

[Monica]

We bought a new house. The Previous Owner had cut a hole in the floor and was venting the dryer into the crawl space.

The problem with this is that the dryer vents about 30 gallons of water with every load of wash. This is 30 gallons of moisture just floating around in our crawlspace. Settling on woodwork, condensing on galvanized pipes. Generally doing the nasty corrosive things that unchecked moisture does. The under-the house moisture then wafts its way up into our living space. It's condensing on the single pane windows, dripping onto the wooden window sills and rotting the wood. We have spots of green and white mold growing on the newly-installed-by-the-previous-owner unsealed baseboard. We also have spots of black mold growing on the plaster of our un-insulated exterior walls.

Unvented dryers are evil.