2nd Floor Dryer Vent

No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.

2nd floor dryer vent.

You won t have to spend a lot of time or money and you ll safeguard against an upstairs flood. My dryer vent goes from the second story to the roof. It s basically a closet that fits the two machines only with very limited space front to ba. 2 have others heard of placing a dryer vent in such a spot.

Second floor laundry rooms can create a lot of damage if the wash machine leaks. You can easily access. Second venting the clothes dryer into the basement takes the moisture out of the clothes that the dryer is drying and discharges that back into the home. Vent the dryer with 4 in.

This creates an environment that is a fire hazard lint and a mold hazard moisture. I bought one of those dryer vent cleaners that you can put on your drill and spin it up the vent. The dirty clothing sheets and towels that make up 95 of our laundry are generated on the second floor so having the laundry room upstairs eliminates the lugging of laundry baskets up and down the stairs. To make the dyer more efficient you can buy an inexpensive heat diverter and install it in the exhaust duct of electric dryers only not gas dryers you ll save about 50 worth of heat per load in the winter.

Figuring out how to install our dryer vent in the middle of our house was a bit of a challenge. If not where in the heck do you put an exterior dryer vent on a second floor. The total length of vent pipe from back of dryer to exit at side of house is less than 10. I had wanted to vent the dryer by simply coming off the back of the dryer going up to the the 2nd floor ceiling with the 4 dryer vent pipe turn along the ceiling with a 90 degree elbo and head out the side of the house.

Luckily there s a product that allows you to go down through. I can t be the first homeowner that said he didn t want to clean out a second or third floor dryer vent every three months. Currently it goes 8 feet. We ll show you four diy steps to prevent a water catastrophe such as adding a washing machine pan.

Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat. My washer and dryer are located on the second floor of a two floor townhouse with crawlspace foundation. Seal the ceiling penetration so that the duct can expand in length as it heats up during use a standard roof boot such as you d use to flash a vent pipe would work. The problem is that i can t reach the roof.