I am taking my maiden voyage here on Breaktime so go easy on me, o.k. I recently had a discussion with a man who had a dark spot in his basement ceiling(drywall) and knew the reason behind this was water from somewhere. What he found was that his dryer vent was condensing moisture in the joist chase, not an amazing discovery I know. The joist chase runs approximately 40 feet from dryer to venting out the rimjoist. What surprised me was the fact that he said that he drained over ten gallons of water from that vent hose! I was just wondering if any one had ever encountered this particular problem and if so what steps were taken to correct.
thanks
rsavage
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Thats a pretty long run . My local appliance repair guy told me that dryer vent runs should be no longer than 10 feet horizontal.
Tom
Code limits it to 25 ft DEVELOPED distance. 90's and 45' add more effective length (5 and 2.5 ft I *think*).But some dryers say that they will work with more.But that length probaly needs a booster fan.
"What surprised me was the fact that he said that he drained over ten gallons of water from that vent hose!"
Hose?? Hose?? This is plastic flex hose, to boot?
At the very least, replace with rigid and insulate it well. Probably install that booster fan, too.
Better yet, move dryer or reroute to closer exit point.
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Edited 1/29/2005 12:03 pm ET by GOLDHILLER
10 gallons?. Even in a sagging plastic pipe, that's alot of water. Better check the outside hood, I think it's leaking big time.
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