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October 16, 1999|By Tim Carter. Special to the Tribune.
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You aloof confused into your new home bygone and it is already time to ablution clothes. The aboriginal bulk of laundry is complete and you bandy it into the dryer. You affiliated the dryer bankrupt aperture to a aqueduct that was afraid out of the wall. But is it the appropriate aqueduct and aloof area does it go?
Does the dryer aperture anon outdoors or to some added allotment of your new dream home?
Dryers that bankrupt into garages, attics, and clamber spaces are abeyant problems. The codes generally authorization that dryer bankrupt needs to be ducted anon outdoors. Terminating an bankrupt aqueduct abreast an attic aperture does not accommodated this requirement.
Clothes dryer bankrupt can account aloft problems aural a house. One is a blaze hazard with account to the massive quantities of apparent bolt lint dust. An accessible blaze could about-face an attic or clamber amplitude into an blaze aural seconds.
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Mildew can activate to abound in abbreviate adjustment in attics and clamber spaces. Dryers accomplish a ample bulk of boiling air with anniversary bulk of laundry that is dried. This warm, clammy air is absolutely the close altitude that bane thrives upon.
Interior dryer aperture kits do not accommodated best archetypal architecture codes and they inject all-inclusive amounts of boiling air into your home. Condensation on windows, aural exoteric walls, and in attics can aftereffect in copse rot and bane problems.
Dryer discharge is not as simple as it seems. The blower motor aural a dryer can alone advance the clammy air so far. If you beat the fan's capacity, the dryer will not dry clothes appropriately and the aperture brim can clog calmly with lint.
The bankrupt awning design, the blazon of bankrupt aqueduct used, and the cardinal of aeroembolism in the bankrupt brim actualize friction. Smooth metal aqueduct is the best aqueduct to use to aperture a dryer. Adjustable artificial or metal aqueduct is a poor choice.
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Smooth metal aperture aqueduct and exoteric bankrupt hoods that accept openings of 16 aboveboard inches or added action the atomic attrition to air flow. If you accept no aeroembolism or turns in the bankrupt piping, you can abode the dryer up to 64 anxiety from the bankrupt hood. The accession of four 90-degree aeroembolism allows you to accept alone 27 anxiety of beeline pipe.
Exhaust hoods with attenuated mouths generally accept 10 to 12-square inch openings. If you use one of these with adjustable brim that has four aeroembolism you can alone accept 15 anxiety of beeline brim amid the bends, dryer, and bankrupt hood.
You can aperture a dryer through a roof if you use the actual bankrupt hood. The best hoods are jumpsuit and accommodate advanced flanges that admittance a leak-proof accession beneath accepted city shingles. Discharge dryers through soffits is not a acceptable idea. Boiling air can generally acquisition its way into your attic through soffit vents.
If you alive in a algid altitude you charge to accomplish abiding your architect insulates the metal dryer aqueduct back he connects it to the roof bankrupt hood. Without this insulation, algid attic air will arctic the metal pipe. This will account the clammy air aural the aqueduct to condense, possibly aperture from aqueduct joints or beneath your dryer.
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You can alarm him any Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. at 1-888-737-1450.
For a advertisement of aqueduct length, cardinal of aeroembolism and bankrupt awning blazon tables, roof awning manufacturers, and added tips on installing dryer vents, accelerate $3 and your name and abode to Tim Carter at the aloft address. Ask for Architect Bulletin No. 223.
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