USA style laundry

Lally

I have ordered a Whirlpool set and I think I am going to have to cancel due to the dryer. http://www.whirlpool.co.uk/app.cnt/whr/en_GB/pageid/pgproddtl001/catid/3/subcatid/12/prodid/638

I have just realised that it needs an air vent. The washer and dryer were to be placed in a utility room which is built onto the rear of the building. It only has a small amount of brick (about a meter high) and then the rest is glass.

Where will we put the vent? It may end up too close to the vent for the boiler. Shiiiiiiiit. I seem to be making so many mistakes even though I have been so careful. I got the electrician and the plumber to put in the correct wires and pipes for them, but I missed this. I didn't realise until the delivery person called to check that I had a vent.

TomsMom

The spec says it has a 2' vent hose. Our vent hose (on a Hotpoint) is much longer than this. Can't remember whether OH bought a longer one or it was supplied with a long one. I've seen houses where people put the vent hose through an open window during the drying operation - would that be possible if you had a longer hose?

Lally

Would the heat from the vent damage the UPVC windows?

TomsMom

Lally wrote: »

Would the heat from the vent damage the UPVC windows?

Not sure about that Lally, there is a house further up the road that does this and their windows are UPVC, I can't see any damage or discolouration but that's not to say there is none. Possibly a question for one of the window experts on this particular board. Post your question about heat damage in a new thread as that may get the attention of the window experts, I can't imagine one of the boys reading a thread about a laundry topic :rotfl:

Another thing that occurred to me, if you can check up on instructions for tumble dryers, does it state how high the vent needs to be? I'm wondering if you made a vent hole in your 1m high wall that may be OK . Mine is up very high because my TD is stacked on top of the WM due to lack of space, but the hole in the wall is in line with the vent in the TD so the hose is horizontal (and goes around a bit of a bend). However, in the house we will be moving to after it is renovated it will be placed on the floor, side by side with the WM. A hole will be knocked through the wall directly behind the TD at less than 1m high due to the height of the TD.

I've just asked hubby and he reckons that as the height of the Whirlpool TD is 914.4mm (less than 1m high) then the vent would come out the back possibly in the middle-ish and probably no more than 2' high. As long as the vent for the TD is not too close to the vent for the boiler then there may not be a problem putting it through your wall. Maybe another question for any white goods installers on the board?

Hope my ramblings are of some help.

Lally

Thanks for that. I did tell the electrician and the plumber what I was buying, they have put the appropriate wires and pipes in for me. I think if it was going to be a problem vent wise then they would have said.
I was thinking that it would need to be high up for Health & Safety reasons, in that the hot air (if that hot) then it could burn someone? If not then I will put it down low.
I think that I think about things too much :rotfl:

MX5huggy

Loads of confusion here!!

The vent pipe is 100mm (4 inhces) in diameter it is supplied with 2 foot of hose but you can add more length if required. The heigth of the vent is not important as it just air going out so it goes up hill if required, alot of people just stick it out of an open window.

The air comming out is not going to be hot enough the damage UPVC or burn people, imagin what it would do to your smalls if it was!!! (they would be very small!!)

The only issue is the boiler flue as you dont want the flue gasses coming back in. How far are we talking?

Kiran

Why would the flue gasses come back in because of a tumble dryer vent? Both the flue and the vent are pumping out and taking their clean air from inside the room. The boiler flue should be up higher than 1m too as this gives of more heat than a TD vent would. There is no problem venting it and a low level anyway.

HTH

Lally

The boiler flue is about 6ft high and it is about a metre in to the left of the border between the two rooms