Is this venting dryer into utility closet a bad idea.

Mar 31, 2017 32 Replies

In the original post he said "This problem is one that bothers my landlady a lot: All the apartments were built with space for a washer and a dryer, with the dryer next to an outside wall for venting the air.

But, I think it is her neighbor right next door (2 apts. per floor) who rearranged his apartment and decided to revent the dryer. "

Sounds pretty obvious the drier is no longer on the outside wall since he is now venting it to the INSIDE wall..Now unless the guy is a TOTAL idiot, if the drier was still at the outside wall he would not route the vent to the inside wall - particularly to the pipe chase close to the center of the shared interior wall.. I know Mikey doesn't always communicate clearly, so there is always the possibility - however slim, that the neighbour moved the drieer to the far end of the apartment on the outside wall and decided to run the plastic flex hose as decoration across the room to the interior wall as decoration or something. - mabee as a heat reclaiming measure because the plug of HIS heater falls out of the plug in HIS bedroom too - - - -.

Yes. I don't know details, but there is some sort of board or membership group that should be able to enforce rules. So even though no action has been taken against him yet, the other guy is mad at my landlady for even raising this in the first place.

I don't know anything about the building code here except that it's kept pretty current.

I see. So you went from "Micky made it pretty clear" to "Micky doesn't always communicate clearly" and then made some assumptions about what the guy did with his drier.

Got it.

Mikey, you STILL haven't said where "here" is - Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Morroco, or Mars - - -

From an earlier post I believe he is in Sweden.

Not even in Somalia or Uganda?

Thanks - I missed that one. I imagine the code is pretty strict there, unlike several other places in the world, and a few Krona doesn't make the inspector look the other way.

You are right on that, plus the other posters regarding the heat/moisture. What a maroon.

I've always wanted to go to some place like those two places.

A few years ago I read about a city in Africa somewhere that had a population over 100,000 and no electricity.

I live in a place like that every 5 or 6 years.

My daughter just came back from Dakar and Bamako, and a few smaller centers in Senegal and Mali. Those are some of the more developed areas of West Africa.

When I was in Burkina Faso a lot of major areas only had electricity part time and a lot of smaller towns had none. My friends had a solar setup out in "the village" and were the only ones in that village with power That was in 2000. In '73 '74all the big towns in Zambia had pretty reliable power thanks to the power stations at Kafue dam - a lut of Africa runs on deisel generators.

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