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Is it bad to vent your dryer into a crawl space or cellar?
Right now my dryer is not vented, so my house gets warm and humid when I use it. Yuck! The alternatives are vent to the crawl space, or cellar. Thanks
Just a big thank you to everyone who answered. I didn't know it mattered that much. I'll choose a best answer, but you all deserve one exept for Gun Highway. I have as much respect for his answer as he has for my question.
6 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
bad and stupid too
Source(s): I have no respect for idiocy. you can find that answer anywhere online, yet you choose to waste our time asking it here, therefore you are stupid. - elhighLv 79 years ago
REALLY BAD. All that heat and humidity you're introducing into your home, you would put in the crawl space? Disastrous.
It's bad enough inside the living space, but at least the air conditioning takes it back out again. Dump it into the crawl space and that moisture just sits there, causing mold and mildew and Lord knows what else.
Go ahead and run the duct into the crawl space...then get down there and run it the rest of the way to daylight. Get it completely outside the building envelope. You're wasting a tremendous amount of energy dumping it indoors.
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Do everyone a favor and report "Gun Highway" for violation of the forum guidelines. Hateful participants like that should be banned.
Source(s): HVAC tech, sometime laundry repair, homeowner - ?Lv 44 years ago
study most of the solutions and that they are all properly suited. you won't be able to vent right into a crawlspace. I had a washer/dryer in my house without outdoors vent. I have been given a protracted vent hose and used to run it out the window once I used it. you will get a chew of plywood and hook the hose to a classic outdoors vent fixture. shape the wood to in superb condition suitable in the window like a window show screen. additionally i became in a position to purchase an interior venting kit that had the vent hose going right into a plastic vent container which you may fill with water. It on no account worked for me through fact the moisture you get rid of from the outfits lands up in the room. The water merely accumulated the lint.
- 9 years ago
It's not bad. It will just turn the area into a giant linty, stinky, spider infested, humid, tropical like mess. Overtime wood will rot, and mold will grow. Why is it not possible to vent outside?
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- Snow Bunny-RebelLv 79 years ago
Yeah, neither one is a good idea, as you are looking at a possible fire hazard and an air restriction due to lack of ventilation. Do you have a window near the dryer? Here is an idea for venting out of it.
Source(s): 15 years in appliance sales and service - big fellaLv 79 years ago
Yes,to much moisture and heat along with a lot of dust from the lint from your clothes.
