Chain drilling works but is a right pita. It leaves a messy hole that needs tidying with mortar or a collar. Core drilling takes anything from moderately quick to forever. It's quicker than chain drilling though.
NT
How many drinking vouchers to core drill a tumble dryer exhaust
May 10, 2019
Last reply: 7 years ago
38 Replies
What size of hole?
Personally I would ditch the tumble drier for a condensing one. Free heat and no messy hoses.
In which case this would do the job. I know the arbour is extra but I would be temped.
It does help having an SDS drill of course.
Not just the sums, but the convenience. They can be sited on landings and in bedrooms if kitchen space is an issue.
I meant to add this:
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So, £20 to buy the kit, and then you have it for the next time. (And Toolstation will deliver FOC.)
Perhaps I'm a bit mean, but I don't think I'd want to pay somebody else to do the job for me. They'd be bound to want more than £20 in my experience.
Most SDS drills sold now have a clutch. I wouldn't do this without a clutch.
Maybe not.
Except that his boss would be covering it, maybe a slab or two?
Would you really want a tumble drier *and* a washing machine in your bedroom? ;)
117 of course.
:-)
Perhaps not in whatever universe Jim inhabits?
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Just like an estate agents tape measure.
thanks to people like you
Stitch drilling doesn't take too much effort, even with 2x brick cavity. I had to knock one through in a hurry for an extra vent prior to getting a solid fuel stove installed.
I tend to agree. You can get a condenser type for as little as £250 and half the year, the waste heat is doing something useful.
£500 gets you a heat pump type so maths time to see what the payback period would be on the extra £250.
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We did.
A significant percentage of the water from the clothes ends up in the room. For some reason I don't understand it sucks in cold air from the room, heats it, dries it a bit, and blows it back out. Still warm (40?) and saturated.
It's ended up in my workshop, and I either run an extractor or a dehumidifier to save the tools.
Reading a Which? report a few years back suggests they all do that. Why don't they send the same air round and round?
Andy
Strange - I cannot say I noticed much humidity from my old Bosch condenser which was ancient.
My Miele Washer/Dryer sends nothing into the room that I can tell.
I'm not aware of any moisture from mine. The only humidity is if I check midway where I can see steam escaping with the door open!
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