2nd Floor Dryer Vent

Moving washer dryer to upstairs laundry room the pros.

2nd floor dryer vent.

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. Vent the dryer with 4 in. Luckily there s a product that allows you to go down through. 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.

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. No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs. Currently it goes 8 feet. But we don t recommend it for two reasons.

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. Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat. You can easily access. The problem is that i can t reach the roof.

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. Metal duct going vertically from the dryer through the second floor ceiling. If not where in the heck do you put an exterior dryer vent on a second floor. 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. Figuring out how to install our dryer vent in the middle of our house was a bit of a challenge. I bought one of those dryer vent cleaners that you can put on your drill and spin it up the vent. Second floor laundry rooms can create a lot of damage if the wash machine leaks.

We ll show you four diy steps to prevent a water catastrophe such as adding a washing machine pan. My washer and dryer are located on the second floor of a two floor townhouse with crawlspace foundation. 2 have others heard of placing a dryer vent in such a spot. 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.