**VENTING MULTIPLE DRYERS** - in a cruise ship

[mayken4now]

Well, here we go again. I was on a ship last week and of course had to go to the laundry. Neptunes. Anyway, they have all the dryers venting into one box and then out to who knows where. But at any rate, out of 5 dryers, one was running, 4 were not. Not back exhaust. Wish I could have seen what the inside of the box looked like.

Here are some Pics.

Steve

 

[mayken4now]

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The box up close

 

[revvinkevin]

Cruise ship self service laundry

Steve,

What cruise line were you on?? Not many of the cruise lines offer a self service laundry for passengers anymore. The only one I know of, from my own experience is Princess Cruise Lines (no jokes please...).

Thanks!
Kevin

 

[toggleswitch]

Pony tail gone?

Looks like there is a lint trap.

If the two ducts at the top provide a constant suction/exhaust, it may explain how there is no backflow without any apparent "check-valves" in the form of backflow prevention dampers.

Are the dryers gas (propane)or electric?

Thanks for posting this.

 

[neptuneguy27]

Self Service Laundry

Hi Kevin,

Aside from Princess, Cunard offers self-service laundry aboard their liners including QE2. I assume that since the Queen Victoria has one the new "Queen Elizabeth" will have one too. On Queen Mary 2 there are self service laundries on almost all passenger cabin decks and they alternate their location on each deck: Forward, starboard side on one and Aft, port side on the next. They are all Maytag Dependable Care machines on QM2.

Christopher

 

[gansky1]

Cool picture - thanks for posting.

I wonder if there are louvers or dampers on each of the incoming vents to prevent back-flow into the other non-running vents. You're right about the constant suction, Toggle, that would help the system tremendously - especially if the exhaust line from the box has to travel some distance to reach the outdoors.

An architect friend of ours added a garage onto the front of their house that interfered with the dryer venting to the outside. Their Speed Queen dryer caused an objectionable lint problem on the outside so allowing it to run into the garage was out of the question. To solve both problems, he built an enclosed box around the vent and added a louvered eave vent to the outside that had a screen on the inside to prevent bugs, etc. from entering. Every couple of months, they would open the top of the box, and brush or vacuum off the screen and accumulated lint in the box. I personally liked the lint residue on the outside of the house - sort of a badge of a clean family ;-)

 

[redcarpetdrew]

I've seen that before...

I've seen things like that box in different forms. The purpose of it is to filter out lint before it blows up into the piping. Hence the handle that's attached to a screen. We have a builder here who actually puts a similar device into the wall behind the dryer before it goes up to the roof jack. I don't like it due to the 4" round dumping into a square box, going thru a screen, then dumping bach into a 4" round. Talk about screwing up airflow. The dryers take longer to dry and there is no easy way to bypass the box without messing up wall. Plus, the customer has to unhook and pull out the dryer just to get at the box to clean the screen...

RCD

 

[beadsobleach]

I'm crushed

I've never been on a cruise, but never thought there would be a washeteria on board, thought they would do it for you, maybe in First Class?

 

[neptuneguy27]

First Class

I'm afraid there really is no First class anymore. There are various levels of accomodation on board. From interior cabins to penthouse suites. Cunard does however, maintain a sort of quasi class structure aboard their ships ( and to my knowledge they are the only ones to do this ). Each level of accomodation has its own assigned restaurant. Suite passangers are in the Queen's Grill, Junior Suite passangers are in the Princess Grill and Britannia Grade passangers dine in the Britannia Dining Room. It has been my experience that only passangers in the top level suites receive free laundry and dry cleaning service from the ships laundry.

Chris

 

[mayken4now]

The last four cruises we were on all had self service laundry. This one was a Carnival ship. Have seen it on Holland America, Princess, Carnival, and Costa.

The dryer's were electric.

Steve

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

Very cool set up.
I hope you and Jeff had a great time!
I think you should have during the middle of the night, taken the whole thing apart, and figured it all out! Just Kidding of course.
It is nice that they offer self service laundry.
Hope you were able to get some rest and enjoy your cruise. It has been ages since I have been on a cruise. They are always so interesting, no matter what type of cruise you take.
Thanks for all of the pictures!
Brent

 

[toggleswitch]

I suppose there are a few cruise lines out there that can be interesting.

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[laundromat]

Neptune stacked

Back in 1998,I was working at the Maytag Home Center in Orlando,Fl.(I4 & SR436 in Altamonte Springs)and spoke to the manager of Disney's cruise liners (Magic)who was interested in replacing the 40 Asko washer/dryer sets they originaly had on their vesels.I told him we could have them delivered and installed in 2 weeks and went there to meet him at Cape Canaveral.

The Askos were not thsat old but in horrible shape from nobody telling the passengers how to operate them.Once I noticed that the dryers were ventless,I asked Sam(the captain)how they planned on venting the dryers since the laundry areas were in the lower part of this liner.He said they would vent them through one of the stacks.I did not agree and recomended them not to do that for fear of lint building up and becoming electricaly charged by static electricity.They still dissagreed with me and had a plumber come to run the exhaust line through the smokestacks.

They got 70 units @ $1999 each +$3500 delivery and instalation.We had to go and get conversion kits(transformers) because the voltage on Magic cruiselines is the same as the voltage in Europe because these 2 ships were built in England.Had we known we were going to have to do that,we would have bowed out.That in itself was more than just an instalation.

A few years later,the local news was doing a live coverage special announcement that Magic had a fire during a leave from port to go on a 5 day excursian.The firemarsial concluded that the fire was caused by lint that had built up in the dryer's ventalation system.The fire caused multiple damage.The laundy area ant the equipment were all distroyed.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!!!DANGER,DANGER!!!!

 

[rp2813]

Ever since taking a couple of cruises I've wondered if there is anything gas- or propane-fueled on board. I guess a giant propane tank wouldn't be a big deal considering all the diesel fuel that's already stored but have presumed all cooking and things like clothes drying would be electric for safety reasons. Anybody know?