blackstone
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This dryer installation by Home Depot was posted on Facebook, for Chicopee, Mass. Picture by customer.
Home Depot Dryer Installation!! Seriously???
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Yeah, and they INSIST that you purchase a dryer installation kit for about $35.00 with that cheap ass foil vent tubing! Whatever happened to pride in workmanship?
Eddie
Eddie
pierreandreply4
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This is clearly a poor installation and the big risk if dryer is full electronic, that it gives out a poor vent circulation fault code or lint getting stuck risking a fire hazard.
tomdawg
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My Grandparents had Home Depot deliver for them. They didn’t put leveling legs on the dryer just left it on the floor. The washer hoses were switched. So it kept giving a fault error code. Needless to say, grandson came to the rescue!
My Grandparents had Home Depot deliver for them. They didn’t put leveling legs on the dryer just left it on the floor. The washer hoses were switched. So it kept giving a fault error code. Needless to say, grandson came to the rescue!
pierreandreply4
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tomadawg
I have a maytag mvw6230hw2 with stainless steel braided hose but from time to time when i go to check the fault error code it list me the code F0E4 water to hot in the machine and if i try to set a warm or hot water wash fault error code F3E3 appear even if i have a load set on a tap cold water wash depending on what needs to be wash
I have a maytag mvw6230hw2 with stainless steel braided hose but from time to time when i go to check the fault error code it list me the code F0E4 water to hot in the machine and if i try to set a warm or hot water wash fault error code F3E3 appear even if i have a load set on a tap cold water wash depending on what needs to be wash
I think delivery is the weakest link of the large retailers. They use subcontractors obviously, and it could very well be that there really is only one company that delivers for all of them in any particular area. As a tech, I have an eye for various installation issues, but the subs probably could care less for what is in the future, since they will never have to face the results of what they have done.
The stores don't pay enough per stop to allow the delivery men to do a proper job.
Call me crazy, but I’ve been using that foil vent tubing for the past 5 years, never had an issue. Nice thing is if I need to move the dryer out to clean behind it or work on the machine, can easily remove the vent since it uses one of those clamps you remove with your fingers as opposed to using a screw or nut driver. While simi-rigid ductwork allows for little to no air resistance, it can easily get crushed which is no bueno.
Flexible, dryer, venting materials
Hi Sean reply number seven if you’re using the stuff with the squeeze type hose clamps that is plastic ducting it can be satisfactory for certain situations, but it’s not as safe as metal ducting.
The safest ducting is rigid metal ducting, and has the lowest airflow resistance. The flexible foil ducting that Home Depot used is considered safer, but it’s harder to work with, and it can be deformed and damaged permanently.
John L
Hi Sean reply number seven if you’re using the stuff with the squeeze type hose clamps that is plastic ducting it can be satisfactory for certain situations, but it’s not as safe as metal ducting.
The safest ducting is rigid metal ducting, and has the lowest airflow resistance. The flexible foil ducting that Home Depot used is considered safer, but it’s harder to work with, and it can be deformed and damaged permanently.
John L
I used flexible foil duct and large zip ties to connect my dryer to the home's rigid sheet metal duct work.
Technically flexible foil duct is not supposed to be used for clothes dryers for several reasons, but given the its only a few feet in my case, highly flexible, and that flex duct can easily compressed forward like a slinky I'm looking the other way.
Technically flexible foil duct is not supposed to be used for clothes dryers for several reasons, but given the its only a few feet in my case, highly flexible, and that flex duct can easily compressed forward like a slinky I'm looking the other way.
He who commits sin...
I don't think I could have gotten the same results with semi rigid dryer duct.
Flexible foil duct is my king.
I don't think I could have gotten the same results with semi rigid dryer duct.
Flexible foil duct is my king.
Silver flexible, plastic dryer duct
Replies nine and 10 hi Chet, the ducting you’re using is flexible plastic that is not flexible foil. It is not UL approved for clothes dryer installations if the dryer were to catch fire, that ducting would quickly burn and melt.
That said, I agree with you. It’s very easy to use in tight spaces and in certain situations that I use it myself. But it is not approved for dryers.
I can’t believe you don’t turn your dryer outlet over that puts an unnecessary strain on the cord to leave it upside down like that.
John L
Replies nine and 10 hi Chet, the ducting you’re using is flexible plastic that is not flexible foil. It is not UL approved for clothes dryer installations if the dryer were to catch fire, that ducting would quickly burn and melt.
That said, I agree with you. It’s very easy to use in tight spaces and in certain situations that I use it myself. But it is not approved for dryers.
I can’t believe you don’t turn your dryer outlet over that puts an unnecessary strain on the cord to leave it upside down like that.
John L
That is unacceptable from anyone; especially from an authorized sales and installation business.
I wouldn't have commented on this other than because I have been to Chicopee a few years ago and experienced Home Depot there. I bought two salvaged antique industrial fans there. Needed to buy some lumber to mount the fans to my trailer for travel home. Stopped at a Home Depot in the area (not sure if it was same one or not from the dryer vent picture) for some lumber and hardware. It was certainly a different experience from going to large home centers in more rural areas such as where I live.
I'm not surprised that they would be this clueless on installation of this dryer; seeing how difficult it was to get simple materials from their store. It was morning time (around opening, maybe 07:00.) The only employees weren't lumber department employees and could not figure out how to sell me a couple 2x6 boards at the regular check out registers. It took a manager to suggest removing the tags from the boards; and then scanning the tags at the register without the actual boards going through the checkout line. It's not rocket science, people.
Sincerely,
David
I wouldn't have commented on this other than because I have been to Chicopee a few years ago and experienced Home Depot there. I bought two salvaged antique industrial fans there. Needed to buy some lumber to mount the fans to my trailer for travel home. Stopped at a Home Depot in the area (not sure if it was same one or not from the dryer vent picture) for some lumber and hardware. It was certainly a different experience from going to large home centers in more rural areas such as where I live.
I'm not surprised that they would be this clueless on installation of this dryer; seeing how difficult it was to get simple materials from their store. It was morning time (around opening, maybe 07:00.) The only employees weren't lumber department employees and could not figure out how to sell me a couple 2x6 boards at the regular check out registers. It took a manager to suggest removing the tags from the boards; and then scanning the tags at the register without the actual boards going through the checkout line. It's not rocket science, people.
Sincerely,
David
blackstone
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Long Way from Chicopee
David,
There is only 1 Home Depot in Chicopee, so it would be the same store. Whatever brought you up here to Chicopee?
What struck me about your comment is actually finding a check-out register with employees. Whenever I go to HD (mostly in West Springfield), you have to use self-checkout. Usually, the only register employees are in the lumber area, and I won't stand in line with a small item and stand behind customers buying carts of lumber.
When I use the self-checkout, I ring the bell on the way out, since I gave myself good customer service!
David,
There is only 1 Home Depot in Chicopee, so it would be the same store. Whatever brought you up here to Chicopee?
What struck me about your comment is actually finding a check-out register with employees. Whenever I go to HD (mostly in West Springfield), you have to use self-checkout. Usually, the only register employees are in the lumber area, and I won't stand in line with a small item and stand behind customers buying carts of lumber.
When I use the self-checkout, I ring the bell on the way out, since I gave myself good customer service!
Nobody cares anymore.
Hurry up, get it done, collect money, and on to the next half assed job. If someone questions sketchy work, become loud and belligerent while egotistically BS'ing your way out of the situation.
The amount of fixing I've had to do from so called professionals (some of them 40+ years on the job) AFTER they're done has forced me to just do it myself in most cases.
Hurry up, get it done, collect money, and on to the next half assed job. If someone questions sketchy work, become loud and belligerent while egotistically BS'ing your way out of the situation.
The amount of fixing I've had to do from so called professionals (some of them 40+ years on the job) AFTER they're done has forced me to just do it myself in most cases.
Well my gas dryer came from Lowe's and wasn't really delivered in a Lowe's truck or by either of the two delivery guys in Lowe's uniforms...
The old dryer had a copper gas line that they refused to remove and supplied me with this heavy yellow metal apgas fitting instead...
Nope, they weren't allowed to touch copper, not for removing or installing...
So that yellow line would need the gas pipe to go into to run behind the dryer, but didn't... Onky overhead along the ceiling with the copper running off an outlet behind the machine and much more lightweight and appropriate for an installation like a dryer, anyway,..
I could probably better use that yellow piping for safer gas input for my furnace... But really, it looked better for a gas range... Whicj I know mine uses...
So they left me with telling me to go to YouTube to do it myself, but luckily I have a great home handyman who could surely install the gas for the new dryer and we both hauled out the old one, which I wish we'd carried to the curb, instead of wanting to scrap it after taking it somewhere to such in the back of his truck, when most of the old appliance was still working...
I like self-checking, as no real person can work the way I do, and can do my own bagging, and rare,y does the machine shut off over any mis-weight of anything not scanned...
So I prefer self-serve, and don't fuss over a cut-back workforce or me needing to be paid for doing anyone's job for stuff that's still paying for someone who basically does nothing but make sure the store and people working there gets it's and their money--which asa checkout guy, that's all I do...
And have to run out to areas to check and verify wring pricing on items and make adjustments a real,person is required to do and has to be there're for anyway,.,
(See? Time for some sort of elective retirement!)
-- Dave
The old dryer had a copper gas line that they refused to remove and supplied me with this heavy yellow metal apgas fitting instead...
Nope, they weren't allowed to touch copper, not for removing or installing...
So that yellow line would need the gas pipe to go into to run behind the dryer, but didn't... Onky overhead along the ceiling with the copper running off an outlet behind the machine and much more lightweight and appropriate for an installation like a dryer, anyway,..
I could probably better use that yellow piping for safer gas input for my furnace... But really, it looked better for a gas range... Whicj I know mine uses...
So they left me with telling me to go to YouTube to do it myself, but luckily I have a great home handyman who could surely install the gas for the new dryer and we both hauled out the old one, which I wish we'd carried to the curb, instead of wanting to scrap it after taking it somewhere to such in the back of his truck, when most of the old appliance was still working...
I like self-checking, as no real person can work the way I do, and can do my own bagging, and rare,y does the machine shut off over any mis-weight of anything not scanned...
So I prefer self-serve, and don't fuss over a cut-back workforce or me needing to be paid for doing anyone's job for stuff that's still paying for someone who basically does nothing but make sure the store and people working there gets it's and their money--which asa checkout guy, that's all I do...
And have to run out to areas to check and verify wring pricing on items and make adjustments a real,person is required to do and has to be there're for anyway,.,
(See? Time for some sort of elective retirement!)
-- Dave
Re: reply #13
Fred; I collect and restore antique motors and industrial fans a part of this sickness we all suffer LOL. I was able to secure purchase of two 1925 BF Sturtevant exhaust fans removed from a historic theater building. They are pictured on my trailer in my previous post.
I don't want to hijack this thread with these fans but will share one video link so you can understand what sort of fans I am talking about:
If this sort of thing interests you; feel free to e-mail me about them! This project was shared on the AFCA in detail.
Fred; I collect and restore antique motors and industrial fans a part of this sickness we all suffer LOL. I was able to secure purchase of two 1925 BF Sturtevant exhaust fans removed from a historic theater building. They are pictured on my trailer in my previous post.
I don't want to hijack this thread with these fans but will share one video link so you can understand what sort of fans I am talking about:
If this sort of thing interests you; feel free to e-mail me about them! This project was shared on the AFCA in detail.
mark_wpduet
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I remember when I got my dryer in 2018 (either HD or Lowe's) I can't remember..but I was like "just leave it" I'll do it. Because although I'm not that handy... a clothes dryer I can install.... they said nope we have to install it.
Picture it: Looking behind the dryer at the vent tube that connects the dryer to the wall merely kissing the vent in the wall...with the dryer on, leaking air like CRAZY.. And would you believe I was NOT surprised in the least? In fact,I fully expected something like that...I immediately fixed it...but it made me sad to think how many effed up dryer installations are going on daily
Picture it: Looking behind the dryer at the vent tube that connects the dryer to the wall merely kissing the vent in the wall...with the dryer on, leaking air like CRAZY.. And would you believe I was NOT surprised in the least? In fact,I fully expected something like that...I immediately fixed it...but it made me sad to think how many effed up dryer installations are going on daily
