OME & GARDEN LIFESTYLES

DRYER VENTS

Humidity problems cited

From page 16
dues from clothes-washing chemi-
cals can be injurious to your health
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
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 in-
sulated pipe made from compress-
ed fibreglass. If a metal pipe is us-
ed then it must be well-insulated.
The colder the climate you live in,
the more insulation is 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 coid days, you will have
a soggy, sagging mess around your
dryer vent pipe. .

Where the dryer vent pipe goes
through the wall it must be well
sealed all around. The hole for the
pipe should be approximately the
same size as the pipe. An improp-
erly sealed pipe wil] allow cold air
to filter in around the pipe.

HEN YOU WORK

Use the fibreglass insulation to
fill any large voids around the
pipe, and a good quality caulking
compound, both inside and outside
the house, to provide a positive
weather seal.

For many years the only vent
hoods available for dryers were
made from metal, with a plastic
back draft flap. Often, these metal
hoods would become damaged or
bent, and the plastic back draft
flap that prevented cold air, small
animals, and insects from crawling
into your dryer, would stick open.
Lint could also be caught in the

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flap and hold it open.

The new dryer vent closure that
is now available across Canada
solves the problems of maifunc-
tioning and ineffective vent hoods.
The dryer vent closure is manufac-
tured from high impact vinyl and
consists of an elbow with a cap on
the top, which floats inside a cage
when the dryer is on.

When the dryer is shut off, the
cap gently settles back down on the
end of the pipe. positively sealing
out cold drafts, small animals and

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