It takes so much time for my dryer to work in my new apartment. I
have heard this from many people who have just moved into a new house
or apartment, or just built their dream home and moved back story is
almost always the same, dryer, which worked fantastically in the old
place, now take three to four times more time to dry an average load of laundry and home owner is puzzled. Sometimes the fix is easy, sometimes it is not.
The
problem in most cases is associated with the position and length of the
dryer duct, as well as a right angle in the dryer was introduced feed
to finally yield outwardly. This is the largest contribution to how effectively and efficiently power a clothes dryer will.
Usually
what happens is that the homeowner has moved from the place where their
dryer vented directly outside of the house in a very short section of
the channel can be from 8 to 12 inches, just enough to pass through the
outer wall. These
are the best settings for drying by the way, if you are planning to
build a house in the future, look for the architect position of your
washing machine and dryer in the area where the dryer duct is the
shortest distance possible to vent the exterior.
Our
home owner, tend to move to a place where the dryer is removed in one
of the inner walls, this is where the problem almost always lies. To explain, it's always best to keep the dryer vent as short as possible.
There are two factors in how efficiently your clothes dryer will dry your clothes. The first temperature is drier and most have several different parameters for different tissues. The
second and most important is the amount or the amount of air your
engine fan can move through the dryer while it is running. When you add any number of lengths in proportion to the duct you reduce your ability to move the fan on it.
What's worse is that every hard right turn you add to the channel as well as the addition of five more feet of distance to it. So not surprisingly, dryer, which should work in these conditions does not work as well. It is interesting to note that making a gradual turn can reduce the distance to the added only one and a half feet. But the problem is that it can be difficult to get a gradual turn when your channel is built into the frame of your home.
Although
on this topic, I had a lot of homeowners to ask if they have to turn
the channel down and let the air dryer exhaust ventilation under the
house. This is not a good idea. First
of all, you do not want all that moisture is going under your house, it
can lead to mold, mildew and wood rot and other problems.
In
addition, you do not want all that lint creation under there as well,
it can be a huge fire hazard if it accumulates too much. Yes you have the lint filter in the dryer, but does not catch it all.
Finally,
if you are using a flexible plastic or aluminum box, make sure that you
leave enough room for the dryer to work efficiently. If
you click on the dryer hard up against a wall, you smooth out the
channel and make it ineffective as a means of moving the exhaust to the
exterior.
Making
sure your channel has a clear unobstructed dryer vent to the outside of
minimum length is the best way to keep it working efficiently and save
energy.
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