Thread Number: 81861
/ Tag: Modern Dryers
Did anyone have an interest in dryer vents growing up? |
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Post# 1058890 , Reply# 1   1/26/2020 at 20:01 (1,522 days old) by RE563 (Fort Worth, Texas)   |   | |
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Having grown up in the north, it was always very comforting to see the exhaust coming from a dryer vent in the winter. I remember playing outside in the snow and seeing my mothers dryer vent and neighbors vents blowing out the "smoke" on a winter afternoon, That would make me go inside and take a nap, listening to the sound of the zippers and buttons hit the drum. Still is a very comforting sound that lulls me into a deep sleep.
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Post# 1058894 , Reply# 2   1/26/2020 at 20:54 (1,522 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 1058896 , Reply# 3   1/26/2020 at 21:34 (1,522 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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i was always interested in seeing laundry rooms and their setups and plumbing connections....
especially liked the sound of a washer draining into a sink/tub.... doing laundry has always been a calming comfort....if I ever get stressed, I start a few loads....not sure exactly, but sometimes I think its the sound of the machines that soothes the soul... then again, were in our own little world.... |
Post# 1058965 , Reply# 4   1/27/2020 at 08:56 (1,522 days old) by 70skid (Texas)   |   | |
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The homes of infants in the 1950s-1970s were often filled with the sounds of marvelous machinery that didn’t exist for the preceding thousands of years of human history. Humming fans, washers swishing and spinning, dryers and blowers.....
I am convinced that this early exposure to these sounds made them associate with ‘all is as it should be’ feelings in many of us. To this day, I prefer to sleep with a fan of some kind running as opposed to dead silence. |
Post# 1058992 , Reply# 6   1/27/2020 at 14:00 (1,522 days old) by robbinsandmyers (Conn)   |   | |
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Is very comforting to me. Whether its a vintage 8" fan at night in my bedroom, the washer humming doing a load of clothes or the dryer finishing them up. My bedroom is above the W&D setup in the basement and the dryer doing the last load when Im in bed doesnt bother me a bit. When I lived in a row house on the second floor the washer was in the kitchen and it was very soothing while I was on the computer. Even though it was a new 2006 GE and fell apart by the time I moved 6 years later.
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Post# 1058996 , Reply# 7   1/27/2020 at 15:12 (1,522 days old) by iej (.... )   |   | |
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I have a bit of tinnitus so I actually tend to sleep with a Dyson fan / filter running. |
Post# 1059001 , Reply# 8   1/27/2020 at 17:09 (1,522 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 1059032 , Reply# 9   1/28/2020 at 00:16 (1,521 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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Glad I am not the only one that sleeps with a fan going. |
Post# 1059034 , Reply# 10   1/28/2020 at 02:20 (1,521 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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There was one sticking out of a wall of a house or building I seemed to always go by that I had a dream bees were swarming out of...
The top-40 hit of the day went from “Heart Of Gold” (Neil Young) to “A Horse With No Name” (America), playing at the time... I forgot what all the major brands of dryer vents were, I left my parents’’ house with a brown plastic ACE vent sticking out... And mine, I think, is some silver metal no-name... — Dave |
Post# 1059038 , Reply# 11   1/28/2020 at 07:13 (1,521 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 1059039 , Reply# 12   1/28/2020 at 07:16 (1,521 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 1059156 , Reply# 14   1/29/2020 at 21:18 (1,519 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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When I was a kid, everyones dryer vents went outside. But in the winter here, its like an open window. My new Maytag dryer in 1984 was vented outside and once I forgot to hit the start button. Next morning everything was froze solid. Now I have a window unit that goes in and out and it still streams vapor and no more energy hog.
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