I am moving my washer and dryer into the garage. The shortest distance to run the dryer vent would be to run it up into the attic space above, between the joist and then vent it through the soffit firing downward. I cant seem to find a vent that is ment to mount this way. It is a gas dryer. Can it be done this way? I could vent it through the roof but I am not a fan of putting holes in the roof.
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Just a bump
You can vent out of the wall as well if it’s an exterior wall. They do make a soffit vent (EZ soffit vent by Panasonic, I’m sure there’s more out there as well), but often there isn’t enough space to make the bend in vent pipe at top of wall to get into the soffit. You can pop it out of wall below top plate into the soffit, depending upon size of your soffit as well.