I was just reading another thread about washing machining drain pipes and got me to thinking.
I have been in many houses lately where the washing machines and dryers are six inche away from the wall. It looks like crap.
It appears that the typical problem is that the drying vent pipe comes up through the floor so there is NO WAY to push the drier to the wall. Still others have teh vent coming out of the wall, but there is no good way to install the connecting flex tubing to teh vent and get teh machine up against the wall. The washers appear to be less of a problem.
Can you install a vent in a manner to get teh drier back against teh wall? I was wondering if you could run the vent pipe in the wall. End the pipe just atop the wall plate and build a box in the wall so that your flex pipe can make a trun downward into the vent, thus getting the drier up against the wall?
If so, why don’t builders do it? !
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There's a prefab box for the dryer connection that does just that- the pipe comes down the wall and terminates vertically in the box. There's room in the recess for the hose to turn up to meet it. Of course, if your dryer layout has the vent on the opposite side from where the box is placed, it defeats the box's purpose.
Bob
I find the problem that 4 inch duct with an elbow doesn't fit in a wall cavity that is 3.5 inches wide. In my own house I did not want to waste room making the wall thicker, my wife did not seem to care so I sacrificed the 4 inches behind the dryer. It turns out fine if you use a "Floodsaver" pan under your washer though, the two appliances end up pretty much even any way.
Have a good day
Cliffy
P.S. If you plan it right you won't have to go in the laundry room much any way, use your energy on how the big screen television will look where you want to put it!
Many dryers can be vented out the back, bottom, or side. I ran mine out the bottom and insert the metal pipe from the basement. It had a knockout on bottom and side. Ran MIL's out the side so I could vent it easier. You need to get a 90 deg to accomplish either.
Many dryers can be converted for side discharge. Requires a kit from the mfg.
When I most recently worked on our dryer I got one of those flat "periscope" adapters to run it upward (since ours exhausts overhead). I attached the unit to the back of the dryer with plumbing strap and sheet metal screws, with the outlet above the dryer back, so that I can now make the final connection with the dryer in place.
happy?
I was asked to try an "fix" such a dryer.
With the periscope I could have gotten back about another 2", but there was a dog house on the back of the dryer that kept it from going back any futher.