A friend posted this question on another message board and I thought I'd ask here as well...Thanks for any help...
Clothes Dryer "make-up-air" After reading about it, I have come to realize that a clothes dryer will suck the warm air out of your living area in very short order. I believe I read the internal fans are in the range of 500 ft3/min, which means that when they run for 45 minutes or so to dry your clothes, they are emptying the rest of the place of warm air several times over, and pulling air down the chimney as need be, ruining a fire if you have one going.
I'm hoping that the salt of the earth types on AMG can vector me to dryer make up air venting kits/designs to solve this problem
Our dryer is in a separate laundry room on the first floor, with a window. When I know it is running, I open the window a few inches and close the door, and put a draft stopper across the bottom. I think this helps, but there must be a better solution.
The wife will not stand for putting the dryer in the garage, so don't offer up those options. What I need is a convenient kit/design for pulling the air from the outside directly into the dryer, rather than having it suck air from the general living area.
Any ideas or information?
Thanks