I had originally bough the side vent option...
...and was terrified to find out that SQ recommends removing the entire dryer drum to install it (otherwise, it's very difficult to install). Probably not a huge deal to someone familiar with doing such work, but the appliance store (mom 'n pop) was going to have her installer guy (can you imagine) do it. I expressed my concern (after speaking to SQ on how it's done), that she was kind enough to have her repair shop install it for me.
After waiting 2 additional weeks for her suppliers to get the 90 degree elbow to her, I decided to just install it the way you see it. In addition, if you will look at the picture above, the dryer vent (left side exhaust) would not have lined up with the hole in the wall, skewed by 3"...not aligning would have created another issue to which I did not have a solution (slider pipe things don't align close enough (not far enough from the wall). I threw my hands up at that point and did the best I could and taped up the periscope that I had been using with the 1999 Whirlpools.
The wall behind the dryer is probably fire-code wall as the neighbors are on the opposite side.
...and was terrified to find out that SQ recommends removing the entire dryer drum to install it (otherwise, it's very difficult to install). Probably not a huge deal to someone familiar with doing such work, but the appliance store (mom 'n pop) was going to have her installer guy (can you imagine) do it. I expressed my concern (after speaking to SQ on how it's done), that she was kind enough to have her repair shop install it for me.
After waiting 2 additional weeks for her suppliers to get the 90 degree elbow to her, I decided to just install it the way you see it. In addition, if you will look at the picture above, the dryer vent (left side exhaust) would not have lined up with the hole in the wall, skewed by 3"...not aligning would have created another issue to which I did not have a solution (slider pipe things don't align close enough (not far enough from the wall). I threw my hands up at that point and did the best I could and taped up the periscope that I had been using with the 1999 Whirlpools.
The wall behind the dryer is probably fire-code wall as the neighbors are on the opposite side.