Clothes dryer exhaust idea? Has anyone found a way to harness the wonderful energy that%26#039;s being wasted with clothes dryer%26#039;s exhausts during the winter.

This question probably doesn%26#039;t apply to clothes dryers that use humidity condenser exhaust technology, only the heated forced air exchange type. I was thinking of filtering the exhaust so that most or all fo the lint is caught and the heat could be channeled into the house. Since the air is also moist, this is a plus during the winter time since where I live the air tends to be quite dry during the winter, actually most of the year.

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8 months ago

Evita Rodham Clinton - Many people don%26#039;t have the time or space that it takes for clothes to be naturally line dried. And line drying causes your clothes to get stiff and wrinkled

bohemian_garnet - Why do you have to be so insulting just because you know something I didn%26#039;t . There are many things I know that seem obvious, but seem to fly over many people%26#039;s heads.


This is the most common design you will find for the indoor venting of dryers:
http://heating.gillroys.com/Dryer_vents_...


~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years Myself and my experience with indoor dryer venting (which we currently do, because we live in the desert).

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• Good idea. With gas there are some serious concerns due to CO buildup. With electric it%26#039;s a great idea. I%26#039;ve seen basket type products that do just what you said. Unless they%26#039;ve been withdrawn from the market due to liability concerns. (See previous answer!)
  Of course, air drying does all this with no additional use of energy. The drip hangers in my apartment
• A friend of mine did just that. She lived in a nasty run down trailer (yikes) and was having trouble heating it. she placed a screen over the hose and aimed it towards the area she wanted heated. She cleaned the screen after every load, just like she would clean the lint trap. She saved doing her laundry til evening when it was the coldest. It worked for her.
• Funny that you should ask. I was just thinking about that last night. I thought of a way of doing it, but was worried about the lint collecting and being a fire hazard. Think I %26#039;ll wait until it%26#039;s sold in stores so that if something goes wrong I can sue the manufacturer Ha,Ha!
• Just duct the exhaust air through some cheap aluminum duct suspended from the ceiling of the living space, the heat will radiate right out into the room and be at a much cooler temperature when its finally dumped outside.
  
  Of course this problem wouldn%26#039;t even exist if people would go back to hang drying their laundry like they did for centuries prior to the mid 1950s.