Help with dryer venting problems

[bluedogz]

If I may, 36' is a crazy long dryer vent run. Adding, what, two 90's in it only makes it worse. And rigid duct won't make it better for long. With 2 90's your run shouldn't be more than like 12-14 feet.

I know you don't want to hear it, but moving the dryer is actually an appropriate solution. Was the house not designed for laundry in the first place?

 

[oldspark]

Put a leaf blower on the end of it, blowing out of course. :cheese:

 

[CountryBoy19]

If I may, 36' is a crazy long dryer vent run. Adding, what, two 90's in it only makes it worse. And rigid duct won't make it better for long. With 2 90's your run shouldn't be more than like 12-14 feet.

I know you don't want to hear it, but moving the dryer is actually an appropriate solution. Was the house not designed for laundry in the first place?

No, it was designed for laundry as far as I can tell...

Built in 2005, cookie cutter housing addition...


I think the problem is that it was designed by morons, built by retards with the absolute cheapest materials that could be found, and wired and plumbed by a bunch of monkeys and apes.... er.... well I won't insult the monkeys and apes, they could have probably done a better job.

Ironically the inspector missed all of the major issues...

There are many design aspects of the house that just aren't well thought out...

The laundry room is one of them. It's in the basement near the front of the house, under the kitchen. Can't go up, can't go forward (porch), must go back or to the side. Both of which are about the same distance but going back lets you run it through the floor joist void.

Anyways, this is going to be somebody else's problem in 5 years. I replaced it all with PVC today. I was able to work the double 90 through the floor joist into approximately a double 45 to reduce drag.

 

[ironpony]

wish I would of read this sooner, hope what you did works out. It will definately be better than it was.
For information purpose...
each 90 degree turn is equal to 10 feet of pipe
your run length is way to long for 4 inch piping
should be at least 6 inch over 20' in length
could run the numbers for you but you are already done

 

[CountryBoy19]

wish I would of read this sooner, hope what you did works out. It will definately be better than it was.
For information purpose...
each 90 degree turn is equal to 10 feet of pipe
your run length is way to long for 4 inch piping
should be at least 6 inch over 20' in length
could run the numbers for you but you are already done

I realize that this is a non-ideal situation, and the "fix" wasn't really a fix at all, but going from corrugated flex to solid, smooth wall should at least be a small improvement. And it will at least allow me to periodically clean the duct out to improve flow.