I have a 1 car garage under my rancher with the rest a basement. My question is would there be a problem with me running my dryer vent through the wall and into the garage? I am concerned with moisture. Would that be a problem?

 

Not to me it wouldn't!






But seriously, I don't *think* moisture would be a problem, but lint and dust might be. I would think the area you are venting to would be big enough that the moisture from the dryer would be negligible. Our neighbor vents his dryer to his crawl space under his house and hasn't had any negative effects that I know of. It's been that way for better than 25 years too.

Get some replies from others tho, I'm far from an expert in dryer moisture.

 

If your garage is insulated and drywalled, you might not want to do it. I use one of those interior dryer vents during the winter to get moisture in the air. I get condensation on the windows, but I have log interior that sucks up the moisture, no drywall. A cement floor would probably get a lot of condensation and be slippery too.

 

Unless you have a really dry climate I wouldn't do it.

 

Yes, even though the interior vent has a plastic screen built in, the holes are too large and you need to fab your own protection to catch the fine lint.

 

I have OSB on 1 wall and block on the others.

 

How often is the dryer used? If you only do 2 or 3 loads a week I wouldn't think there would be any problem. Now if you are doing 2 or 3 loads a day, that might put a little more moisture into the room than you'd like. I'd also suggest a water trap for lint in that situation. I've made several out of 5 gallon buckets, very cheap and easy.

Another question is: can you run the vent along the ceiling and outside above the garage door? There would probably be a long length of vent hose in that situation and you'd probably want a joint where you could clean up lint or water accumulation in the line, but that could be another option.

 

Brick house that I am putting insulated basement windows in and brick exterior. I was looking for an easy way to rerun it when i change the window.

 

You really want as short of a run and as few turns as you can manage for safety reasons. Maybe just leaving a window open whil it's running will be enuff, but you'll want a screen.

 

I dump my dryer vent under the crawl space. keeps the pipes warm.

 

I Was Origanally Dumping It In The Basement ( Had A Nylon Over The End Of The Pipe To Catch Lint ) Humidity Was Defanatelly A Problem - ( I Was Doing It To Salvage The Heat In The Winter) I Ended Up Running It Directly Out Side.

I Really Didnt See Any Savings In My Heat Bill - And Like I Said Humidity Was Defanatelly A Problem - And Eaven Using A Nylon -the Dust Was A Pain !

 

In Texas you shouldn't run it more than 25 '. Each 90 degree bend counts 5 '. I use to do it in a trailer house in College Station, TX.(fairly humid) ......... two college guys.......no problem........used it to recapture the heat.

 

I assume you are talking about an electric clothes dryer. A gas dryer would eomit CO and leave deadly fumes in any of the spaces previously suggested!

I live in the Pacific NW and wouldn't ever duct a device that produces humidity ie, clothes dryer, fart fan, kitchen range hood etc., into a confined space as the moisutre would create a fine environment for molds and mildew, resulting in rotting timber and wood products.

Check with the manufacturer and don't run the line further than your machine can handle. And don't use pvc. Use metal tubing and instal with the seams up and use good duct tape, no screws, they catch lint and can cause a fire.

Luck

 

Speaking of fire hazards... we had a family lose their home to fire a few years back. The cause was a bathroom light/fan that somehow shorted out against its' casing, and in so doing caused the metal rings that make the plastic flexible ducting hold its' shape become electrically charged. The result was a 'toaster' of red hot metal coils running between the floors for 1/2 the length of the house. Got the place going pretty good before they even knew what was happening.

 

WHere is the dryer ducted to now???