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Old 12-18-2012, 09:33 AM
 
Location: The Triad
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The laundry room has a half bath attatched to it.
Does the dryer sit on a common wall to the bathroom?

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Run a vertical run into the ceiling.
Put a 90 degree turn and have the vent terminate on the exterior wall.
If you can't go through that exterior wall from immediately behind the dryer...
then up and over should work well enough.
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Old 12-18-2012, 01:06 PM
 
Location: Living on the Coast in Oxnard CA
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Does the dryer sit on a common wall to the bathroom?


If you can't go through that exterior wall from immediately behind the dryer...
then up and over should work well enough.
For a better explanation:

Heading south, you enter a door into the laundry room area coming from the kitchen

If you were to continue walking into the laundry room you would run into another door that takes you into the main garage area.. Our garage door is to the East of the garage. Looking left you would see the garage door. On the north wall of the garage you would see the dryer vent running along the wall untill it exits the home.


After entering the laundry room looking to your left or the East side of the room, is where the washer and dryer are located.

To your right or west side of the room is the door to the half bath.

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Are you saying that it is OK to bring the vent up into the ceiling and over the cieling of the laundry room and bathroom and exit the building that way?
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Old 12-18-2012, 05:19 PM
 
Location: Lexington, SC
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My present dryer vent goes up inside the wall maybe 9 feet then a 90* turn and over the main bathroom (in the ceiling) and exits the side of house about 10 feet up. Total run about 15 feet.

In my last home the dryer vent went up inside the wall maybe 9 feet then a 90* turn and over the garage (in the ceiling) and exited the side of the house about 10 feet up. Total run about 30 feet.

Inside the wall was a metal chute (for lack of a better word) about 14 inches wide and 3 inches deep, with a dryer hose attached at the dryer end and a flexible metal tube run from the other end, through the ceiling to the side of the house.

Hope this helps.
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Old 12-18-2012, 05:58 PM
 
Location: The Triad
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For a better explanation:
not quite.

what IS behind the dryer?
how far is the dryer to an exterior wall?
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Old 12-18-2012, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Knoxville
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Trapper,
Not sure why you quoted me - I did say that codes allow vertical dryer vents.
BY the way, a 90 degree elbow adds 5 feet to effective length and not the 3 feet you mentioned.
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