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26 - Friday, June 2, 1989 - North Shore News

HOME & GARDEN
Vent dryer correctly

ALL DRYERS should be vented
outside.

By GEORGE DALGLEISH
Contributing Writer

Over the years, some homeown-
ers have vented their dryer inside
their house during the winter
months, to conserve energy by
capturing the heat that is produced
by the dryer. Various devices have
been used to divert the warm air
from the dryer to the inside of the
house during the winter and divert
it outside the house in summer.

While diverting the dryer air in-
side the house in the winter months
conserves energy, it can produce
problems.

Do not vent a gas dryer to the
inside of the house at any time.
Diverting an electric dryer exhaust
inside a house can increase the
humidity levels considerably.

The amount of humidity pro-
duced by the dryer will be directly
related to the number of times the
dryer is used, and the amount of
clothes that are dried. A family
consisting of two or three small
children, may produce three to
four times as much humidity
through drying clothes, than a
two-member family.

However, humidity is not the
only problem, there are others.
Experts are now telling us that res-

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idue of soap which often contains
phosphates, and residue from
fabric softeners and bleach, as well
as other additives in your wash,
may cause health problems.

A major complaint has been
allergy problems. But breathing
these residues could produce other
problems.

Whether or not proof can be
furnished that breathing such resi-
dues from clothes washing chemi-
cals can be injurious to your health
or not, remains to be seen. One
sure way of not being affected by
breathing such residue, is to vent
your dryer outside.

There are problems with venting
dryers outside that usually have to
do with the improper installation
of the vent pipe or an inoperative
or defective vent hood.

If your dryer is in the basement,
it is often necessary to cut a hole in
the concrete wall between the floor
joist or under the floor joist, in
order to vent a clothes dryer
through the wall.

In some cases, the hole can be

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made between the floor joist
through the header, which in most
cases is wood, The dryer vent pipe
can be metal or can be an insulated
pipe made from compressed
fibreglass.

If a metal pipe is used then it

must be well insulated. The colder
the climate you live in, the more
insulation required.
_ Insulation usually consists of
fibreglass batts wrapped around
the pipe and held in place with
masking tape. The pipe and the in-
sulation should be securely wrap-
ped with polyethylene plastic and
sealed using a special tape made
for the sealing of plastic vapor
barrier.

If the plastic does not provide a
true vapor barrier around the in-
sulation, warm moist air can leak
into the insulation, and condensate
there. On cold days, you will have
a soggy, Sagging mess around your
dryer vent pipe.

Where the dryer vent pipe goes

through the wal] it must be well
sealed all around.

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