Second Floor Laundry Dryer Vent

But we don t recommend it for two reasons.

Second floor laundry dryer vent. Use a section of vent pipe to mark a circle where the opening will be from inside of your home. 1 how do i know the length limit of the piping before head loss will not allow the dryer to vent and 2 if i have to reduce the pvc piping from 4 inches to 3 inches where it goes. To vent the dryer i will have to run a pipe approximately 20 feet. Don t put the laundry too close to sleeping areas.

Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat. Moving washer dryer to upstairs laundry room the pros. I plan to use pvc non pressure rated pipe. 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.

For convenience on the main floor anywhere off the kitchen makes sense as does a mudroom or off the garage. Figuring out how to install our dryer vent in the middle of our house was a bit of a challenge. 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. The laundry room is in the middle of the house second floor.

You can easily access. After locating the shortest route for the ductwork determine the location of the dryer vent exit. Second floor laundry rooms can create a lot of damage if the wash machine leaks. I am building a new home.

The noise will keep you awake. Do carefully consider location. You won t have to spend a lot of time or money and you ll safeguard against an upstairs flood. The amount of junk that littered the laundry room floor brought my upright vacuum to its knees.

When installing a dryer vent for laundry centers in basement locations keep in mind that the vent hood on the exterior of your home must be at least 12 inches from the ground. If your dryer vent is anything like mine expect a lot of lint to come flooding out of the wall. With the new laundry room being installed in a second floor hallway a water leak can cause very costly damage to walls floors and ceilings in a very short time. No more lugging laundry up and down the stairs.