How To Vent Dryer Into Attic

Recently we have simply vented the dryer into the attic.

How to vent dryer into attic.

As seniors cleaning out the vent is a hassle because we can t climb into the attic or move out the stacked washer dryer to get to the vent. A dryer vent should be vented outside. Dryer lint is also highly flammable. The attic is usually colder than the rest of the house during the winter and that can create a problem for a dryer vent.

Do not vent a dryer directly. That is the old material type tubing simply ended by a overhang side of the house where it exhaused into the attic and not outside. However condensation collected in the low spots of the flexible hose. 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.

Our association will not permit any outside venting. In these cases it may be necessary to vent your dryer through the attic. We are wondering if there is any other way to vent the dryer which is gas. The dryer vents into the attic and not outside.

When our dryer was replaced we decided to bring the dryer venting system early 1960 up to code by replacing the tubing that vented into the attic. 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. Flexible dryer hose vented to the soffit. 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.

The problem with attics. 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. The dryer was originally connected to the same duct as both bathroom vent fans. Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat.