Venting Dryer Into Roof Space

Can a dryer vent go up through an attic.

Venting dryer into roof space.

Do not vent a dryer directly. Dryerjacks are the first roof vents designed to meet the more stringent venting requirements of dryer exhaust systems. You can buy a box called an indoor dryer vent kit at home improvement stores and it manages to control most of the lint but not the water dumped into the air. Doing so would fill your attic with.

My neighbor vents their dryer into the crawl space. My house is extra hot in the summer due to the moisture in the air creating a humid environment. There is dust dirt and lint stuck to everything in my house. Lint buildup reduces dryer efficiency which means clothes take longer to dry.

I ve had a handyman do some work for us recently and one of the jobs was to vent the dryer through some tubing into the roof then down out through the external eave. 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. A clothes dryer removes several pounds of water from an average load of laundry and it s the job of the vent to disperse it. Cindy asks my dryer vents into my attic.

Dryer lint is also highly flammable. He now says the gap to the eave is too small and just wants to leave it venting into the roof space and put a spinaway on the roof. Venting your dryer to the attic is not only a potential fire hazard but can result in moisture problems which causes more problems. At least once a year snake a vacuum hose into the dryer duct to clean it.

Some homeowners use a much simpler system of venting down into a bucket of water like in the photo at the top of this page. Check the vent cap frequently and brush out lint. A note on cleaning. I live in a 4 unit apartment.

Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat. A better roof termination. I have the following problems. How can i vent it outside to make it less of a fire hazard improperly vented dryers and lint buildup cause over 15 000 fires a year.

When you run the vent pipe through a cool space like a crawlspace the. If it s really difficult to find a way to vent the dryer to the outside an acceptable alternative is to vent it directly into the crawl space. The international residential code allows you to run a dryer vent through the attic but you can t terminate it there.