Paul,
Your basement looks fabulous. What a great selection of machines. Keep up the good work!
Your basement looks fabulous. What a great selection of machines. Keep up the good work!
A new look for the Ogden Laundry....
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I need to vent...
Seriously, I have been wondering what to do about venting multiple dryers. The DE306 is a 'dryer vent through a board that I put in the window' solution; the DE700 is vented into a water trap (which is far from a perfect solution, but it does add humidity to the house in winter). The Westy doesn't have a vent currently but I would like to add one. The Inglis will dry again someday (hopefully sooner than later) and it will need to be vented too... The house is odd in that in summer, the humidity in the house is far too high while in winter it's too low. We go from 75 or 80% humidity mid-summer to 15% or less in winter. So, using a dryer in the summer is not something I do often...
I am going to guess that the ideal solution is to have each machine vented with its own direct outlet. But because of the style of foundation this is not going to be easy. The former owners of the house never had a dryer vent from the moment they built the house to the time we bought it.
I have some ideas though... When we tore down the kitchen in 2009, there had been a Jenn-Air grill range that vented through the basement into the 'cold room', which is actually the basement underneath a wing added to the house in the 80s. The foundation height is adequate for a vent so they ran the conduit from the 'laundry' section of the basement into the cold room, then to the vent. The original ducts got torn out (cooking goo, eeech!) but the vent through the wall is still there. Could I get away with having a duct running through the basement with all 4 dryers connected to it? I have seen something similar in a local laundry in Montreal.
Another idea is to regroup the dryers on the back wall (where the out-of-commission Inglis and Westy are now placed, still use the cold room vent but with a shorter run of ductwork.
Last idea (and I think it would solve a lot of problems but hubby is really against it) is to convert the 'cold room' into a new laundry room! I would need to do some work - there is no plumbing (that would take some engineering...) and very minimal heat. But I am going to have to have plumbing and electrical work done anyway... Added bonus, the 'cold room' has a solid cement floor. The floor in the current laudry is plywood over who knows what and I strongly suspect that there is water damage and rot in the supports for the floor boards...
What to do???
Seriously, I have been wondering what to do about venting multiple dryers. The DE306 is a 'dryer vent through a board that I put in the window' solution; the DE700 is vented into a water trap (which is far from a perfect solution, but it does add humidity to the house in winter). The Westy doesn't have a vent currently but I would like to add one. The Inglis will dry again someday (hopefully sooner than later) and it will need to be vented too... The house is odd in that in summer, the humidity in the house is far too high while in winter it's too low. We go from 75 or 80% humidity mid-summer to 15% or less in winter. So, using a dryer in the summer is not something I do often...
I am going to guess that the ideal solution is to have each machine vented with its own direct outlet. But because of the style of foundation this is not going to be easy. The former owners of the house never had a dryer vent from the moment they built the house to the time we bought it.
I have some ideas though... When we tore down the kitchen in 2009, there had been a Jenn-Air grill range that vented through the basement into the 'cold room', which is actually the basement underneath a wing added to the house in the 80s. The foundation height is adequate for a vent so they ran the conduit from the 'laundry' section of the basement into the cold room, then to the vent. The original ducts got torn out (cooking goo, eeech!) but the vent through the wall is still there. Could I get away with having a duct running through the basement with all 4 dryers connected to it? I have seen something similar in a local laundry in Montreal.
Another idea is to regroup the dryers on the back wall (where the out-of-commission Inglis and Westy are now placed, still use the cold room vent but with a shorter run of ductwork.
Last idea (and I think it would solve a lot of problems but hubby is really against it) is to convert the 'cold room' into a new laundry room! I would need to do some work - there is no plumbing (that would take some engineering...) and very minimal heat. But I am going to have to have plumbing and electrical work done anyway... Added bonus, the 'cold room' has a solid cement floor. The floor in the current laudry is plywood over who knows what and I strongly suspect that there is water damage and rot in the supports for the floor boards...
What to do???
pierreandreply4
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Have you tought about venting all dryer through a celling fan vent the kind we see in bathrooms sometime that would mean aving a long duct that connects to each dryers but that would be link to the main celling fan vent that would become a dryer vent thats just a tought?
adding "T"'s to a vent for dryers can be done.....but.....you have to have backflo valves so the air does not return into another dryer not running, and these clog and stick open very easily, I had to clean mine every month to work properly, now they all have their own vent.....
I do like the powervent idea, to pipe several into one line and the added assisitance from the blower might just work for such a situation.....GOOD ANSWER!
I only seen this in one apartment complex, they created a slot/vent across the entire complex underneath, and on one side was a blower like from a heater, blowing air across and out the other side continuously....all dryer and vents from stove hoods and bathroom vents were piped into this.....kinda unique!
I do like the powervent idea, to pipe several into one line and the added assisitance from the blower might just work for such a situation.....GOOD ANSWER!
I only seen this in one apartment complex, they created a slot/vent across the entire complex underneath, and on one side was a blower like from a heater, blowing air across and out the other side continuously....all dryer and vents from stove hoods and bathroom vents were piped into this.....kinda unique!
