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This forces the dryer exhaust through the water from standard vent pipe?
Do you have a link for this product? This would be another idea I'd be concerned about. By your description it sounds as if this would create excessive pressure in the exhaust vent and restrict the flow of air. The dryer would probably have to work longer to dry clothes since it can't expel the moisture as quick and depending on how air tight it is you may be forcing lint filled air into areas that it shouldn't go. May even be a hazard.
I'd suggest loading up the dryer with and without this attached, run the same load through and time each load to see how long each takes.
I got the contraption at the local hardware store. My carpenter said they use them all the time in Boston. It's just the flex hose going into the top of the water container, which has large holes around the lid. The water mainly is there to catch lint and therefore you don't get that much lint in the dryer. The heat hits the water and steams up and out the holes. In the summer you can just switch the hose to outside. But it takes 25 minutes max to dry a jumbo load no matter if it's towels or whatever. I only do 5 loads of laundry every 2 weeks anyway.....and I don't use this to call myself "green" (clotheslines don't cut it with wind chill of 60+ below for the person posting above)
My kid has asthma and the extra moisture helps, haven't had any problems shocking things when touching them either. Besides, when I had my 113 yr old house that I hadn't finished rehabbing, I DID appreciate the extra heat. So, I have a new house with no heat issues, but I like the moisture. Granted, if I still lived in Houston I probably wouldn't use this thing...even in the winter.
I got the contraption at the local hardware store. My carpenter said they use them all the time in Boston. It's just the flex hose going into the top of the water container, which has large holes around the lid.
So it's not actually going through the water but instead is blown across the surface of it and then exits the holes? As long as it's not being forced through the water it sounds like pretty good idea now that I think about it.
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(clotheslines don't cut it with wind chill of 60+ below for the person posting above)
Well they will dry, just take a week. LOL This is driving my Mother nuts because she's in a new house and the laundry room doesn't have a clothes rack yet. She always used to hang stuff to dry in the old house that had a really big rack, it's not about being green but simply to save money and she prefers hanging a lot of stuff.
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My kid has asthma and the extra moisture helps,
But you might introduce mold and mildew? My understanding is this is one thing they strongly suspect being a cause for asthma. If you think about it newer houses and even older houses have become much more air tight and in the same time frame we have this increase in asthma cases. Houses and buildings don't breathe like they used and you're trapping a lot of indoor air pollution. Add to that kids spend so much more time indoors than they used too.
So it's not actually going through the water but instead is blown across the surface of it and then exits the holes? As long as it's not being forced through the water it sounds like pretty good idea now that I think about it.
Well they will dry, just take a week. LOL This is driving my Mother nuts because she's in a new house and the laundry room doesn't have a clothes rack yet. She always used to hang stuff to dry in the old house that had a really big rack, it's not about being green but simply to save money and she prefers hanging a lot of stuff.
But you might introduce mold and mildew? My understanding is this is one thing they strongly suspect being a cause for asthma. If you think about it newer houses and even older houses have become much more air tight and in the same time frame we have this increase in asthma cases. Houses and buildings don't breathe like they used and you're trapping a lot of indoor air pollution. Add to that kids spend so much more time indoors than they used too.
No siree....just came off a mold lung issue. Change the water after every use as you do the dryer screen as well. I am a mold-a phobe! I just happen to live in a very dry climate. Go see one or better yet buy one....what's a 20 spot? See what works for you...
Not to mention clotheslines are often prohibited by landlords, property owners, and HOAs because they feel they look tacky. I don't agree with this, but it is what it is.
Anyone can claim living greener if the change they proposing is to lessen their footprint on the environment. Most people live in various stages of 'green'. I commend people who attempt to live more consciously. One effort leads to two, and so forth.
I am just "pro-clothesline". I seems silly when people live in hot climates like over 90 degrees and yet no one has a clothesline. it just seems stupid to pay for a dryer and use electricity, and energy..
So many people profess to being green, yet somehow still use a dryer.
Not to mention clotheslines are often prohibited by landlords, property owners, and HOAs because they feel they look tacky. I don't agree with this, but it is what it is.
Anyone can claim living greener if the change they proposing is to lessen their footprint on the environment. Most people live in various stages of 'green'. I commend people who attempt to live more consciously. One effort leads to two, and so forth.
I know, it is a ridiculous thing, clothes, we all have them yet for some reason here in America it is really frowned upon to see them drying on a clothesline. European people for another reason have no problem with clotheslines at all. They will hang clothes anywhere.....
Ok, i can understand not in the front of the house, but certainly you should be able to hang them in the back.....
It isn't criminal to hang clothes......you would think like what you were asked to look at?????
Not to mention clotheslines are often prohibited by landlords, property owners, and HOAs because they feel they look tacky. I don't agree with this, but it is what it is.
Anyone can claim living greener if the change they proposing is to lessen their footprint on the environment. Most people live in various stages of 'green'. I commend people who attempt to live more consciously. One effort leads to two, and so forth.
I know, it is a ridiculous thing, clothes, we all have them yet for some reason here in America it is really frowned upon to see them drying on a clothesline. European people for another reason have no problem with clotheslines at all. They will hang clothes anywhere.....
Ok, i can understand not in the front of the house, but certainly you should be able to hang them in the back.....
It isn't criminal to hang clothes......you would think like what you were asked to look at?????
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