Hi guys I have a question about dryer venting. I have several dryers I would like to hook up in the garage..It seems a shame to waste all that heat and send it outside. What will happen if i just let them vent inside? Will I have a garage full of lint? LOL or has anyone seen any alternate ways of doing this..Your input would be helpful Thanks..Tim

Hi Tim, not only your garage will fill up with lint, but also moisture! A typical 5kg load (spun at 1000 rpm) does relase around 4 litres of water as steam when dryed.
So either vent outside or be prepared to cope with moulds and such.

Unless the dryers have extremely good filters, and most do not, you will have lots of lint-dust to contend with, and the moisture can be an issue. Garages are not typically as well insulated and air-tight as the inside of your house so the moisture won't be as bad, but on cold surfaces the condensation will surely form which can cause a myriad of other problems. Dirty walls, droplet marks on the ceiling, windows, anything metal, etc. are just a few examples and then there's the propensity for anything metal combined with moisture to develop rust. I've done this in my own garage and the tepid, clammy results were disappointing at best.

Gas dryers must be vented outdoors- carbon monoxide will kill you faster than any mold problems appear. Electrics can be indoor vented. Somewhere there is a kit that ostensibly traps the lint that makes it past the dryer filter.

I've tried a couple of these "lint-trap" kits and they don't work very well. Early dryers were often non-vent models that blew the warm, moist air into the room they were installed. Homemakers complained of the wet walls & floors, and the lint-dust in every nook and cranny of the room - and house. I saw one of the "traps" at an estate sale that used a small box with cold water to condense the moisture and help trap the lint, but the entire basement looked similar to the tree above so it must not have worked very well. Some dryers are worse than others in how they deal with linty, warm air. The newer 27" Whirlpool dryers, Speed Queen In-A-Door Filter models among others were pretty lousy at keeping themselves lint-free. Norge dryers were notorious for this with their pressurized air-flow system that nearly always leaked.

I use a length of dryer hose with an old T-shirt over the end of it (with the arms and neck tied shut).

It helps keep the heat bills down, and my house needs all the extra humidity it can get in the winter.

I haven't noticed any problem with excessive lint -- maybe a little more in the laundry room than in the summer -- but it's easy to clean.

My house originally didn't have any way to vent the dryer outside, and the woodwork downstairs shows signs of moisture damage from when the dryer was vented indoors in the already humid summertime.

-kevin

Most Australian Dryers vent directly into the room, its highly unusual to get a dryer that has been vented to the outside. The dryers are smaller, but still process the same amount of laundry.

Most people here just crack a window and let some air in, obviously this would be a little more difficult when it is below Zero outside :)

The filters here are of a very find mesh, much finer than what seems to be on a Maytag or Speed Queen.

The lint that accumulates here or at mums, is minimal, and no more than I'd say normal dust.

I turn the blower on on my forced air heating system and put this vent with panty hose(on my 'new' Maytag electronic dry control dryerDE712)attached to capture the heat in the room. It does not seem to make extra lint in my laundry room

oh it does, but the amount is negligible and very hardly noticeable!

Well, whose panty hose are they being so small, Lindsay Lohan's on her new diet of pilates and crack?

Why not put a clear condom in the crotch as a visual to know when the thing needs changing, fer Chrissakes, Peter Paul and Mary and all the Saints, Goddammit, Jesus H. Christ hanging from the cross?

Next thing you know they'll be telling us to recycle our condoms to catch rainwater in downspouts to water organic lesbian gardens in San Francisco.

Who wants a skank ho panty hose filtering your lint and sending a nice aroma all around your house? Vent the fecking dryer.

But that's just me.

Problem solved:
Just use new ones as we did! *WINK*

Now there's and idea.

My Dryers are Electric..and the garage is cement block old and kinda drafty..although I hate cobwebs..lint and that sorta thing thanks for the input as far as the panty hose thing...I dont allow those in the house!!!! or the garage LOL would seem weired tho a big masculine guy like myself buying them at the store..The clerk would have a story to tell I'm sure

When we pulled our dryer from the wall 14 years after it had been installed in our upstairs bathroom, we realized three things:
1. At some point, the dryer vent elbow had become disconnected from the vent pipe in the wall.
2. There was a huge dust/lint monster bunny that occupied the 4-inch gap between the back of the dryer and the wall that rose about 18 inches from the floor.
3. We were very lucky not to have had a fire.
No one ever noticed either the lint flying through the air and we became so used to the heated humid air that we just assumed that it was a normal effect of using the dryer.
Good thing it wasn't a gas dryer.

~LOL would seem weired tho' a big masculine guy like myself buying them at the store..The clerk would have a story to tell I'm sure.


If bought with pads with wings, they won't even blink.

oh Ken, do you have a pic? Was this recently?