Thread Number: 78026
/ Tag: Modern Dryers
Ventless Dyers and Indoor Air Quality |
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Post# 1020416 , Reply# 1   1/7/2019 at 07:13 (2,226 days old) by combo52 ![]() |
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![]() Part of the problem may be the dryer, but also just handling clothing makes a lot of lint dust and a vented dryer keeps a healthy amount of air moving through your laundry room and on to the outside of the home.
I have a vintage Frigidaire 1962 Filterator dryer that I use some in the winter, it differently makes a lot of dust so I try to have one of the vented gas dryers running at the same time to help keep the air clearer of dust.
If you are going to use a condenser dryer a lot you should keep the fan running in your homes heating system and be sure that you are using really good filters [ electrostatic air-cleaners are best ] as cotton dust is a carcinogen.
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Post# 1020433 , Reply# 3   1/7/2019 at 12:54 (2,226 days old) by LowEfficiency (Iowa)   |   | |
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Not all vented dryers are equal either... some use the fan to blow hot air into the drum, while others use the fan to suck moist air out. It's a technicality, but makes a big difference in how much lint gets blown out into your laundry room, as the former category relies much more on the seals to keep linty air from being pushed out around the door, lint trap, etc.
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Post# 1020434 , Reply# 4   1/7/2019 at 13:03 (2,226 days old) by foraloysius ![]() |
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I have a Siemens IQ500 heat pump dryer. See this link:
www.automaticwasher.org/c... I dried a load of whites today including some fluffy towels. The door to the laundry room was closed. There was no lint on the dark tiled floor. This Siemens dryer seems well sealed. It has a double filter too. |
Post# 1020435 , Reply# 5   1/7/2019 at 13:03 (2,226 days old) by marky_mark ![]() |
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I wonder if part of the reason you are seeing dust now that you weren't seeing before is related to doing 4 to 6 loads a day. When you remove a load and fold it and clean the filter, some lint will become airborne. If you then immediately start drying your next load, a vented dryer will draw some of this airborne lint down into the dryer before it has a chance to deposit on other surfaces. With a condenser dryer, you don't have this exhausting effect. So it could be that the problem isn't being caused by your new dryer as such, it's just that your new dryer doesn't have the side-effect of acting as a room exhaust fan. Perhaps if you were only doing 1 load a day and were folding it and cleaning the filter at the end of the cycle and then not running the machine again till the next day, then you might see the same amount of lint around the room regardless of whether the dryer is vented or condenser.
I wouldn't have thought the lint would be escaping from your dryer during the cycle. It should be sealed well enough to prevent that. Perhaps more lint is becoming airborne due to the to different designs of lint screen and also the nature of the lint on the filter. Like you, I also have the Miele T1 heat pump dryer which I've had for 5 years in my small laundry room. I do see some fine dust on surfaces and the occasional dust bunny hiding behind the machines. But I've only ever had this set in this laundry room, so I can't compare it to a vented in the same room. I do also have a Miele vented dryer down in our storage room that I bring up sometimes and use in the kitchen for a day or so. I stick the vent hose out of the door. I do notice lint and hairs around the kitchen on the floor near the dryer when I do this. I also notice (when the sun is shining) that cleaning the lint filter does send lint airborne around the kitchen. This does seem worse than with the heat pump dryer, but as I say they are in different locations so I can't really compare. I've always thought a large part of the airborne lint comes from cleaning the filters. Try cleaning them only outside (or in a different room) for a few days and see if that makes a difference. I've read in another post that someone with a top filter dryer (like Whirlpool) actually runs their dryer while they remove and clean the filter so that any stray dust and lint are drawn back by the dryer and through the ducting. I hope you find a way to mitigate this problem! Your new Miele vented will be awesome! Good luck with the building project :-) |