Venting my tumble drier

[Grahammazy]

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

[Mcluma]

Do not go for a condense dryer, They are not coming close to a vente

one

But your problem is...... condensation in the pipe

Where hot air comes into contact with cold air, you get condensation

the shorter the pipe the better. (but if the machine works for 2/ minutes the hot air is forced out, but at the start up period You wil get extra condensation, and as you are going down you have an adde problem of standing condensation within the pipe, solution is a draine within the PVC 110mm pipe to take the condensation out of it.

If that is solved this i wouldn't see a proble

-- Mcluma

[Grunff]

Modern condensers are very effective, and have several advantages over vented.

[Tony Hogarty]

In what respect?

[Graham Jones]

I had a similar problem during my kitchen refit. I ended up moving the dryer and the washing machine to the garage. Best thing I ever did. Bloody noisy things. Gave me me space in the kitchen as well. After all a kitchen is for preparing food, it is not a laundry!

Graham

[Paul ( Skiing8 )]

Many years ago my dad rigged up a system like you need, the vent was made to go down under the floor and about 8 feet to be vented outside. I can't see any probs with the hot air not making it out as it is forced out and not like a fire/chimny situation. If there might be a problem with condensation then why not just angle the vent downwards and the condensation will drian out if required.

The kind of pipe he used was the rectangle section kind of pipe, I think it was designed for the job as they made couplers that fit the flexable hose at the drier end.

Paul

[Tony Williams]

In article , Grahammazy wrote: [snip]

I initially installed our TD outlet going up vertically to the extractor fan, so that it was sucked outside. Rather crafty, or so I thought. Bit of a mistake.

Firstly the fluff nicely gummed up the extractor fan, and then, being vertical, some fluff would always drop back and accumulate at the bottom of the outlet hose, enough to eventually impede the airflow.

The outlet hose now goes down, about a 12" drop and out through the wall, with nothing that could act as a fluff trap. For example, there is no grille on the outside (that could accumulate fluff), just an open hole with a bent up aluminium plate as a weather shield.

Condensing TD's are supposed to be ok these days, and if it is a choice between a new TD and yet-another-hole-in-the-wall, then I would stop and think about it.

[Christian McArdle]

Completely false. My Bosch condensing dryer is excellent, better than any vented one I have used. It must be admitted that some models are dire, though. I had an old Hoover condensor that was awful.

Christian.