Code for Dryer Venting

[molo]

I am installing a gas dryer and would like to know if I can vent it down through the floor and out a basement window. Any ideas?

Thanks for any replies

[jadnashua]

Not sure about codes, but you'd have a big problem if there was a leak, plus, I think you'd end up decreasing the efficiency by maybe a significant amount...hot air wants to rise, not be pushed down. Plus, if there was a leak, you could have CO, too. Having it rise, like in a flue, is both safer and more efficient.

[molo]

Not sure about codes, but you'd have a big problem if there was a leak, plus, I think you'd end up decreasing the efficiency by maybe a significant amount...hot air wants to rise, not be pushed down. Plus, if there was a leak, you could have CO, too. Having it rise, like in a flue, is both safer and more efficient.

This would be in a flu pipe (rigid) but it would go downwards about 2 feet and over about 5' before exiting.

Thanks for any replies

[jimbo]

Actually, I don't see a code issue with dropping down and over. True that heat rises, but air has mass, and can be pumped down more easily than up. Efficiency will not be affected.

Just exactly how you terminate needs to be worked out. You don't want moist air backfeeding into the basement through that window, or collecting in a poorly ventilated space.

[molo]

Actually, I don't see a code issue with dropping down and over. True that heat rises, but air has mass, and can be pumped down more easily than up. Efficiency will not be affected.

Just exactly how you terminate needs to be worked out. You don't want moist air backfeeding into the basement through that window, or collecting in a poorly ventilated space.

If this will work. I will probably eliminate the small basement window entirely to terminate the vent through.

[Ian Gills]

I installed a dryer vent window. So far so good.

[Cass]

When all else fails read the directions...or call the Mfg. and ask..

[Scuba_Dave]

I installed a dryer vent window. So far so good

You bought a dryer window?
This must have been after the 3rd wisdom tooth was removed
My house they just cut the glass & put the vent in

[Cass]

Yes...but Ians comes with that nice wooden stand...I bet yours didn't...

[Ian Gills]

I'll let you know that that dryer vent window has been tested.

[Thatguy]

http://www.ajmadison.com/ajmadison/i.../W10100920.pdf

[Scuba_Dave]

Yes...but Ians comes with that nice wooden stand...I bet yours didn't...

Yes but mine has bubble wrap
The bubble wrap window is now inside the garage
I'd like to sya they cut the window glass & put in a piece of wood
But in reality they just broke the window glass & put up a small piece of paneling
The whole area will be cut out for a door to the garage


They used to have the sump pump output going out this window too
I moved it to the back window that is a storage area under the sunroom
It then enters a drainage pipe that goes out past the garage

The dryer will move to the right of the window & go out thru the rim joist
Then a short jog to the right to exit the garage

[Thatguy]

Yes but mine has bubble wrap
The bubble wrap window is now inside the garage
I'd like to sya they cut the window glass & put in a piece of wood
But in reality they just broke the window glass & put up a small piece of paneling
The whole area will be cut out for a door to the garage


They used to have the sump pump output going out this window too
I moved it to the back window that is a storage area under the sunroom
It then enters a drainage pipe that goes out past the garage

The dryer will move to the right of the window & go out thru the rim joist
Then a short jog to the right to exit the garage

I'm outta' here.

[Runs with bison]

Yes...but Ians comes with that nice wooden stand...I bet yours didn't...

I was disappointed that Ian's was not shiny copper though...

[Cass]

Agreed...but Daves does have that Down Home Kentucky "I live back in the Holler" look with the bubble wrap....

Just kinda gives you that warm feeling...