Venting Electric Dryer Into Attic

Dryer lint is also highly flammable.

Venting electric dryer into attic.

But we don t recommend it for two reasons. Every electric dryer has to have an outlet through which it expels warm moist air or it won t work. When a dryer is in. When our dryer was replaced we decided to bring the dryer venting system early 1960 up to code by replacing the tubing that vented into the attic.

Not all dryers will allow for this so be sure to check the owners manual to ensure it can be vented in this manner. A dryer vent should be vented outside. Sometimes such as in town homes or condos it s not possible to vent a dryer through a wall outside. The attic is usually colder than the rest of the house during the winter and that can create a problem for a dryer vent.

In these cases it may be necessary to vent your dryer through the attic. The air is usually loaded with lint and if you don t vent it outside it can cause all kinds. That is the old material type tubing simply ended by a overhang side of the house where it exhaused into the attic and not outside. The problem with attics.

Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat. To make the dyer more efficient you can buy an inexpensive heat diverter and install it in the exhaust duct of electric dryers only not gas dryers you ll save about 50 worth of heat per load in the winter.