I am having a new kitchen installed, and as it is a quite expensiv
project and we are already having to get some new appliances I woul like to make use my exisiting traditional (ie vented) tumble drier i at all possible. However, due to the layout of the space it won't b possible to position the the drier next to an external wall an therefore connect it to a vent directly.
In fact, the drier is going under an island unit positioned about si feet from the wall (in the middle of the room). I wondered if anyon knew whether I could connect the vent pipe to another plastic pipe o something under the floorboards which would then take the hot air th six or so feet over to the external wall and pass it through a vent i the wall, on the outside under the line of my floorboards? Would thi work effectively?
My father said I can't because the vent pipe is designed to only go u from the appliance, not down, because hot air rises. I am a bi confused by this as an exhaust in a car is quite low down but stil seems to work....
Can anyone advise me? My only other option is to just take the flexibl vent pipe out a window each time the appliance is used (ruining the loo of my sparkling new kitchen!) or to buy a new (un-vented) condensin tumble drier, which I have heard are not as good and which wil obviously incur me more expense.
Thanks for any advice anyone can give
-- Grahammazy