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Post# 668110 3/24/2013 at 16:56 (4,043 days old) by kenmore70  (New York) |
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Post# 668440 , Reply# 1 3/26/2013 at 07:01 (4,041 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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hey here is what I have done---- Buy one of these at Home Depot, under $8, remove the screen. Use duct tape and a screw or two to attach dryer #1 to the square opening. Do you see the small handle for opening and closing the vent? Use the round opening nearest that handle for dryer #2. Then you can use the handle depending on which dryer is in use. The final round opening is the final exhaust going outdoors. On one of my such setups, I have to stick a small piece of wood under the handle to hold it in place, the other stays exactly where I want it, it's all just cheap plastic.
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Post# 668450 , Reply# 3 3/26/2013 at 08:08 (4,041 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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Hey Again My gas dryers are all vented outside with no contraptions like this. My electric dryers, 4 of them, use 2 of these "dual exhaust" vents. Most of the wintertime I undo the final outdoor leg of pipe and heat the basement. I can use the extra moisture around the house, the basement can't tell the difference with more lint, and the heat helps when the basement is around 55 degrees.
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Post# 668452 , Reply# 4 3/26/2013 at 08:10 (4,041 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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We had these vent diverters for years in our house, they do add heat and are perfect if you're only doing a load or two at a time and the humidity has an opportunity to dissipate. Depending on the size of your space and other variables ( a forced air heating system will carry away humid air more quickly, etc.) the added heat is nice. The downsides are that humidity question, our cold water pipes would sweat, the windows, etc. so that's really too much humidity going into a space all at once. The other nasty thing is the lint dust. The small screen helps a tiny bit, but over time it looks as though you're flocking the whole basement like a christmas tree and the whole house on the breezes of a forced air heating system if you have one. Of course, Norge dryers did this without any add-on attachments :-)
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Post# 668459 , Reply# 5 3/26/2013 at 08:48 (4,041 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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you can go to Lowes and purchase 4inch metal duct in the form of a "T", usually found with heater duct parts.....and roughly in the same isle is dryer vents, and they also sell for the dryer vent, backflow preventers that go in-line for about 6.00, get one for each dryer, this will allow you to run one or both dryers without backflo into the other if one is not in use.....if you were gonna add three or more dryers in a series, you would want to go to a 6 or 8 inch vent leading out of the house.....
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Post# 668461 , Reply# 6 3/26/2013 at 08:51 (4,041 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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this is the "T"......comes in 4, 6, and 8inch or larger sizes as needed....
as for venting inside, electric dryers only!, and consider variables as mentioned of excess moisture, and lint.....you may want to use the water bucket method or create a vent box that can house an HVAC filter...just to minimalize the excess CLICK HERE TO GO TO Yogitunes's LINK | ||
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