Great points, thank you. Ice dam made intuitive sense, but I hadn't thought about climbing on my roof to clean the drier vent. And you're right, that's not something I want to do. Our drier vent exits near ground level and I do have to clean lint out of it a lot. That's annoying but better than it clogging up inside the pipe.
My brother bought a newer home in east Texas. He discovered the dryer vented to…rather into the wall, then up through the attic, through the roof (to grandmothers house we go).He asked me about it as he’d never seen it before. Clogged vent…fire hazard. Clogged vent…inefficient drying leading to wasted energy and fire. And how to clean it? Yeah…get a 10’ extension ladder which every homeowner has right? Or did the home come with one and the previous owner took it? Climb yer sorry senior butt onto the roof (uh huh) and snake the clogged vent down…it’s only 20’ roughly, easy job right? Ridiculous. After reviewing those dryer vent kits for inside the home…garage or wherever, we did that. Yeah I know there are mixed reviews on these types of vents, but what to do when you cannot simply punch through a wall to the exterior? This kit worked. Problem solved and it’s easy to clean and has a door flap that pops open when cleaning is necessary.
I believe those only work for electric dryers, right, because gas dryers vent combustion fumes out the same exhaust path? I had an older, basic diverter, but I only used it in winter to recapture the heat, but it left a fine layer of dryer dust over everything, I imagine yours has a better filter.
Great points, thank you. Ice dam made intuitive sense, but I hadn't thought about climbing on my roof to clean the drier vent. And you're right, that's not something I want to do. Our drier vent exits near ground level and I do have to clean lint out of it a lot. That's annoying but better than it clogging up inside the pipe.
My brother bought a newer home in east Texas. He discovered the dryer vented to…rather into the wall, then up through the attic, through the roof (to grandmothers house we go).He asked me about it as he’d never seen it before. Clogged vent…fire hazard. Clogged vent…inefficient drying leading to wasted energy and fire. And how to clean it? Yeah…get a 10’ extension ladder which every homeowner has right? Or did the home come with one and the previous owner took it? Climb yer sorry senior butt onto the roof (uh huh) and snake the clogged vent down…it’s only 20’ roughly, easy job right? Ridiculous. After reviewing those dryer vent kits for inside the home…garage or wherever, we did that. Yeah I know there are mixed reviews on these types of vents, but what to do when you cannot simply punch through a wall to the exterior? This kit worked. Problem solved and it’s easy to clean and has a door flap that pops open when cleaning is necessary.
I believe those only work for electric dryers, right, because gas dryers vent combustion fumes out the same exhaust path? I had an older, basic diverter, but I only used it in winter to recapture the heat, but it left a fine layer of dryer dust over everything,
I imagine yours has a better filter.