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Where's the exahust vent?

Launderess

There is no exhaust vent. It's designed to vent directly into the room where it is being used. It's very slow because it operates on 120 volts. Despite the lower voltage, I suspect that it would turn the room where it was being used into a sauna. Especially during the summer months.

Mike

Most Aussie Dryers are designed to vent into the room their operating in, this goes for Hoover, Simpson, Westinghouse at least. The F&P can be vented, as can the whirlpool, but venting a dryer over here isnt a common practise.

We lived in an apartment where the dryer vented into the bathroom, which had no windows, it gets warm in there but nothing like a sauna. Our dryer now runs in the garage with no venting, and there is no buildup of heat or mold.

In AU in summer, most people hang things outside, so thats probably why its less of a problem

Can only imagine all the lint and dust that gets everywhere when using that sort of drying system.

Used to have a Space Maker dryer that exhausted into a water bucket type of thing, and still had dust everywhere. Was one of the reasons I got rid of the darned thing.

IMHO unless it is a condenser dryer, it should exhaust to the outside.

Launderess

Furthermore:

Would guess a front loader with a good high speed final spin or a spin dryer would leave laundry so dry that it only required hanging for a brief period to totally dry. Probably would dry faster that way than using a puny 120v dryer, and save quite a bit on the electric bill.

Launderess

People only use those 120 volt dryers because the HAVE to because of circumstances. Usually becuase of living in an apartment with no room or hookup for a gas dryer and no electrical hookup for a 220 volt dryer, and probably no way to vent, either, unless they use one of the water trap devices or stick the exhaust hose out a window. Still, a lot of people would consider it to better than nothing or having to compete with the other tenants for the machines in a common laundry room as well as pay the price of coin-operated machines that they would have no idea of what was in the machine before them. If I lived in a apartment, I'd defiantely have a portable set.

I had a Sears accessory once that allowed a dryer to exhaust through a double hung sash type window. Was plastic with a hole for the duct and a sliding piece that would fill the width of the window. It was just high enough to accomdate the 4 inch exhaust duct and came with a piece of foam to seal the space between the inner and outer windows since the window had to be oopened that much to get the device in.

The Hoover dryer was designed to be used with their spinner/twin-tub washer which left the clothes very dry - drying time wasn't really all that bad. Maytag's Porta-Washer was the same way, very dry spin results in shorter drying time. When I had the Hoover spinner washer in Phoenix, I used to put sheets over the patio chairs outside and they were dry in less than 1/2 hour.