our house is well built and tight. is there a fresh air vent to help the dryer work better?
2007-01-05 23:36:36 · 12 answers · asked by david s 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
There are several ways for air to enter your house to replace wet air exhausted from the clothers dryer.
The vent hood over your stove is open to the outside air and will allow air to flow backwards into the house. The same goes for your bathroom vent.
Air will also find its way through cracks in the doors or windows.
2007-01-05 23:42:30 · answer #1 · answered by Warren914 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dryer pulls air from inside the house. It is replaced by air outside the house that comes in through the various openings to the outside. There are few houses built so tight that a dryer won't work right. If it really is that tight, it needs some kind of forced ventilation to be healthy for you.
But this is an interesting question, because I believe dryers could work better if they were using outside air. In the winter, the outside air is drier (has less humidity) and so would increase the capacity to absorb moisture from the clothing. In the summer, the outside air might be so warm that it would reduce the amount of heat needed, too. Now...under some situations, this would probably not work as well...like really high humidity...but what would the net savings, if any, be with a configuration like that? Anyone ever seen it done?
2007-01-06 04:05:19 · answer #2 · answered by roadlessgraveled 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have a dryer vent that uses 6 inch PVC pipe through the concrete foundation to let dryer air outside. It is bout 15ft long. Every couple of months it starts making a gurgling sound. I have taken a hose and removed the condensation build up in the pipe. Then a couple of months later it starts making the noise again, I pump the water out again. When we fist lived in the house it did not do this. Doe anyone know why this is happening?
2016-05-22 22:33:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dryer sucks air from inside the house.
2007-01-06 00:56:27 · answer #4 · answered by Hairy B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The air comes from inside the dryer, that's why you have a lint filter on it there, the air goes through this before going outside. It's very important to keep the filter clean, many house have started fires over dirty lint filters.
2007-01-05 23:42:46 · answer #5 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From underneath your dryer. You must have fresh air coming in somewhere in your house or you would die. If your dryer isn't drying good your exhaust vent is probably full of lint
2007-01-05 23:49:52 · answer #6 · answered by Larry m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All houses have to breath. most air comes from all the little cracks you might not know about or see. if you have a new house that has been built with spray on foam insulation and is realy tight your builder may have put a fresh air intake in your HVAC Unit.
2007-01-06 00:52:28 · answer #7 · answered by john r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a squirel fan behind the drum that spins and forces air through the duct in the dryer.
2007-01-05 23:43:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the water (H20) in your wet clothes is dried it turns into a gas. Put your hand by the vent next time its on and you will feel how moist the air is coming out.
2007-01-05 23:39:41 · answer #9 · answered by polystyrene_high 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it comes from inside the house
dryers do not 'produce' air... there is an intake of cold air that turns hot when it's heated by the gas fired heater or the electric heater built in.
breathe in... pushed out...
2007-01-06 01:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋