Dryer exhaust filtering

Take a look at this $10 device

A cyclone - like a workshop dust collector? or even a "drop box" with baffles? then run the exhaust through a furnace filter to catch the rest.

lint all over everything.

Jafine's indoor drier vent filter isn't much better - about the equivalent to 2 layers of nylon stocking or one old sports sock. The unit from "bettervent" looks like it is significantly better for about $60.00 - You can get it from Amazon.It has a filter monitor that tells you when the filter needs cleaning

Deflecto makes a decent looking one as well as well as "indoor lint trap" --

All of the above are listed on Amazon.ca

Tape a pair of panty hose over the pipe. My Ex did that one year and by spring we had half of a lint stuffed mannequin.

Make the box big enough so the dog fit is it while the dryer is running. It will catch the excess.

I'm thinking a box with a 4" inlet and outlet and the filter being a partition in the center. The lid or base on the side after the filter would be a screen in winter but covered over in summer.

You don't need the outlet if you want to remove or bypass the box in summer.

Have you tried this to make sure that other than filtering, it works OK. You're going to be dumping a lot of moisture in one area and I would expect you could have condensation on windows, any cold walls, etc.

In the dead of winter when it is dry as a March Fart that moisture disappears pretty quickly in the house. I did have the dryer near an intake for the forced air ducts but we never noticed a problem.

I have one very much like this and that's what I was going to suggest. You beat me to it.

It says "Includes: One Heat Keeper Air Diverter, Two 4" Adjustable Plastic Mounting Straps and Removable Lint Filter Cap. " So maybe it's just not showing the lint filter cap.

At any rate, mine has a piece of window screen, or possibly finer than normal window screen (I can check if you ask) and every once in a while I have to clean off the lint. I don't get much lint. For one thing I the dryer has a long lint trap that I have to clean every 2 or 3 loads (It whistles when its full.) and I dont' think I get much line because everything is cotton and polyester. Does that make a difference? I think so.

Except towels and underpants are all cotton, but I stop the dryer before the towels and shirts and pants are fully dry. I don't want to spend the money and I think it hurts sta-press clothes to be dried all the way, because they get hot at the end,.

My gizmo is 30+ years old so you may not find the exact thing, but really the window screen is all that matters. It's about 6" x 6" and in mine, has a plastic frame and slides in and out of a slot in the side.

I've used this every winter for over 30 years and I've never noticed more condensation on the windows, or water on the wood window sills. The sills still have good paint, the wood has no rot. My furnace humidifier wore out several years ago, but for 15 years I ran both. (The replacements didn't work, and only one brand will fit my furnace.)

Yes. Never caused a problem for me either. In the winter in most of the US, houses need extra humidity to keep the wood furniture from drying out, espeically the piano.

What piano? That's got to be the rarest piece of furniture in U.S. houses in the second decade of the 21st Century.

Cindy Hamilton

Actually more like the second rarest - after the gramaphone (mabee add in the parlor organ)

We have a piano and a gramaphone .. both probably older than 100 .. John T.

My ex has two

As of 2015, 1 in 3,788 families own a piano.

Cindy Hamilton