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Thread Number: 14938
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| Post# 252815 , Reply# 1 12/8/2007 at 10:54 (5,982 days old) by dj-gabriele () | ||
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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. | ||
Post# 252818 , Reply# 2 12/8/2007 at 11:25 (5,982 days old) by gansky1  (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Lint-Flocked like a tree!
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.
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| Post# 252852 , Reply# 3 12/8/2007 at 15:04 (5,982 days old) by pturo (Syracuse, New York) | ||
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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. | ||
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Post# 252858 , Reply# 4 12/8/2007 at 15:39 (5,982 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Oh, flock it.
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.
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Post# 253116 , Reply# 7 12/9/2007 at 19:44 (5,981 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT) |
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Panty Hose | ||
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Post# 253122 , Reply# 8 12/9/2007 at 19:52 (5,981 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 253713 , Reply# 10 12/12/2007 at 22:42 (5,978 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Size Queen! | ||
| Post# 253720 , Reply# 11 12/13/2007 at 00:26 (5,978 days old) by pturo (Syracuse, New York) | ||
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Now there's and idea. | ||
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Post# 253934 , Reply# 13 12/13/2007 at 17:30 (5,977 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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All with a grain of lint.
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. | ||
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Post# 253966 , Reply# 14 12/13/2007 at 20:43 (5,977 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Wussy-whipped. | ||
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Post# 253967 , Reply# 15 12/13/2007 at 20:45 (5,977 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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