Anon are you moronic? Unless you're running a dehumidifier, which will increase your electricity use, you're gonna create all sorts of moisture problems in whichever room the dryer sits.
Does your drier room have tile, bathroom paint, and an exhaust fan someone switches on when they shower? Maybe you'll be alright. Either way that moisture has to go somewhere, and water carries heat away when it evaporates, I'm not a physics guru but it seems like you're not getting anywhere except more wear and tear.
Just hang your clothes on a line then, see if you like the humidity. A dryer does not heat the clothes, it takes the humidity out of them. The heat is just a side effect.
But really if you want to save on power, you can hang your clothes in a basement or in a bathroom (places that will tolerate a little more humidity) and run a dehumidifier. New dryer designs work under this principle and only have a drain hose instead of a vent.
Like most euro urbanites I hang my clothes to dry in my tiny living room. Usually two loads of laundry at a time over the weekend, plus bed sheets over the doors. I just put the heating up a bit in winter and ventilate more, never had a moisture problem. Centrifuging stuff like towels at high rpm already takes out a lot of the moisture.
A clothes drier removes the same amount of moisture as hanging the laundry to dry would, but the drier also heats up the air so that it can contain more moisture. If OP ventilates and his room is big enough it will be fine.
Does your drier room have tile, bathroom paint, and an exhaust fan someone switches on when they shower? Maybe you'll be alright. Either way that moisture has to go somewhere, and water carries heat away when it evaporates, I'm not a physics guru but it seems like you're not getting anywhere except more wear and tear.
nta but I run a fricking industrial humidifier and my wife cranks it up until the ducts are literally dripping, so yeah a little dryer moisture isn't going to be the thing that kills me.
>dumbass doesnt understand WHILE its drying the clothes are still wet, and thus the heat coming out of the vent will be moist until the clothes actually dry, then the air will not have any moisture
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nta but I run a fricking industrial humidifier and my wife cranks it up until the ducts are literally dripping, so yeah a little dryer moisture isn't going to be the thing that kills me.
Use a heat exchanger, get that heat back without all the humidity. Then use an HVAC condensate pump to get rid of all the condensation that collects.
americans really only use shit non condesing dryers? thats not even new thats 80s miele shit
in the bottom there is a condenser which cools the output air with the input air the air gets dryer so it dires faster, it needs less energy because the heat is retained and the output air stays dry. the water gets pumped into a reservior.
Just hang your clothes on a line then, see if you like the humidity. A dryer does not heat the clothes, it takes the humidity out of them. The heat is just a side effect.
But really if you want to save on power, you can hang your clothes in a basement or in a bathroom (places that will tolerate a little more humidity) and run a dehumidifier. New dryer designs work under this principle and only have a drain hose instead of a vent.
>A dryer does not heat the clothes, it takes the humidity out of them. The heat is just a side effect.
No offense but this reminds me of a guy that tried to tell me air conditioning doesn’t cool the air, just removes humidity from it.
The exhaust is full of lint that contains micro plastics and all sorts of stuff you don't want in your lungs or to settle around the room because it'll always be dustry AF. If you want to harness that heat energy just have a fan blowing on the hot exhaust tubing so that the energy from the tubing will circulate in the room without introducing the dust.
Also I recently found out my dryer tubing didn't have a one way air check thing in it and was sucking cold air into the room, added one and it's much comfier in there now so another thing you could think about is trying to make the room warm
> microplasics and stuff
And then you put them on in direct contact with your skin, move around all day and produce lint and dust from clothing and breathe all that in.
Touching things absorbs a hell of a lot less of whatever substance you're interacting with into your body than inhaling that substance directly into your lungs. I agree with your sentiment though, I try to avoid buying clothes made from petrochemicals in general but for some things its unavoidable.
Here’s the problem with that. I started hanging all my clothes to dry. 100% cotton is both the heaviest and water-laden things out of the high-speed spin cycle, takes the longest to dry…like 3 days… and is hard and stiff like a board when it finally does dry.
On the other hand, I have flannel stuff made with 100% petrochemicals, and it is—without exaggeration—dry enough to wear out of the same spin cycle the cotton stuff was.
It'll humidify the shit out of your garage. You'll have to keep an eye on things rusting. Yes, my house was built like that and no, it's not possible to easily mod it (in my situation, anyway).
>Why can't you vent a clothes dryer inside during winter?
You absolutely can, and plenty of people do. Some people do it year round, some switch with the seasons.
Doing this will release metric fricktons of lint dust and humidity into your house. What you're saying would be like saying that suicide cables are safe just because they exist.
>Doing this will release metric fricktons of lint dust and humidity into your house.
It doesn't though, amazing right? I understand that you have absolutely no experience with this, but it's actually extremely common.
When I run mine, which is only in the winter, it'll push the humidity in the house from 20% up to 23%. >Oh no, the mold, the humidity, the dripping condensation!
Obviously you shouldn't run an interior vent in a place with high humidity, but not everyone lives in southern Texas.
I had an apartment that had an indoor venting dryer bc the management was cheap as shit and ran their buildings like shitty house flippers. It made the room super humid and triggered my asthma. This was in a tiny galley kitchen though, might work better in like a basement. They also had this ghetto ass plastic box you filled with water that acted as a filter that was completely ineffective and I’m sure there are much better solutions out there
I have a gas dryer that vents into my attached garage. Was that way when I bought the place and hasnt caused any issues. Warms the garage nicely in the wintertime. In the summer we mostly hang things outside to dry.
It will condense on the coldest surface, wondows, and thenndrip down and ruin the paint job at the window box... and mold
morons.
https://i.imgur.com/7Ev4Z0K.jpg
>Why can't you vent a clothes dryer inside during winter?
You absolutely can, and plenty of people do. Some people do it year round, some switch with the seasons.
Anon are you moronic? Unless you're running a dehumidifier, which will increase your electricity use, you're gonna create all sorts of moisture problems in whichever room the dryer sits.
so? bathrooms create humidity too
Does your drier room have tile, bathroom paint, and an exhaust fan someone switches on when they shower? Maybe you'll be alright. Either way that moisture has to go somewhere, and water carries heat away when it evaporates, I'm not a physics guru but it seems like you're not getting anywhere except more wear and tear.
Like most euro urbanites I hang my clothes to dry in my tiny living room. Usually two loads of laundry at a time over the weekend, plus bed sheets over the doors. I just put the heating up a bit in winter and ventilate more, never had a moisture problem. Centrifuging stuff like towels at high rpm already takes out a lot of the moisture.
A clothes drier removes the same amount of moisture as hanging the laundry to dry would, but the drier also heats up the air so that it can contain more moisture. If OP ventilates and his room is big enough it will be fine.
Winter air is too dry. Your home needs extra moisture in the air during the dry winter months.
It will condense on the coldest surface, wondows, and thenndrip down and ruin the paint job at the window box... and mold
nta but I run a fricking industrial humidifier and my wife cranks it up until the ducts are literally dripping, so yeah a little dryer moisture isn't going to be the thing that kills me.
yeah this is a bait thread for sure, post a pic with timestamp
Mold spores gathered in a keyboard to short keys in this order and formed a neutral network to solve the captcha.
The heat of the dryer makes the moisture disappear. The water is gone at that point and the air is dry.
>dumbass doesnt understand WHILE its drying the clothes are still wet, and thus the heat coming out of the vent will be moist until the clothes actually dry, then the air will not have any moisture
>I can’t into reading comprehension
>moisture disappear
to where anon
It disappears into fluidic space where species 8472 lives via subspace field rift created by the dryer.
Ah- and that's how we occasionally lose the left socks.
No more water on Earth
>what is rain
americans really only use shit non condesing dryers? thats not even new thats 80s miele shit
in the bottom there is a condenser which cools the output air with the input air the air gets dryer so it dires faster, it needs less energy because the heat is retained and the output air stays dry. the water gets pumped into a reservior.
Energy is cheap; condensing dryers are expensive.
These people are children and don't know what their parents driers do.
that's a euro thing
Condensing dryers are rare in the US
Just hang your clothes on a line then, see if you like the humidity. A dryer does not heat the clothes, it takes the humidity out of them. The heat is just a side effect.
But really if you want to save on power, you can hang your clothes in a basement or in a bathroom (places that will tolerate a little more humidity) and run a dehumidifier. New dryer designs work under this principle and only have a drain hose instead of a vent.
>A dryer does not heat the clothes, it takes the humidity out of them. The heat is just a side effect.
No offense but this reminds me of a guy that tried to tell me air conditioning doesn’t cool the air, just removes humidity from it.
imagine the dust
That's a fancy filter. Just use a sock.
The exhaust is full of lint that contains micro plastics and all sorts of stuff you don't want in your lungs or to settle around the room because it'll always be dustry AF. If you want to harness that heat energy just have a fan blowing on the hot exhaust tubing so that the energy from the tubing will circulate in the room without introducing the dust.
Also I recently found out my dryer tubing didn't have a one way air check thing in it and was sucking cold air into the room, added one and it's much comfier in there now so another thing you could think about is trying to make the room warm
> microplasics and stuff
And then you put them on in direct contact with your skin, move around all day and produce lint and dust from clothing and breathe all that in.
Touching things absorbs a hell of a lot less of whatever substance you're interacting with into your body than inhaling that substance directly into your lungs. I agree with your sentiment though, I try to avoid buying clothes made from petrochemicals in general but for some things its unavoidable.
Here’s the problem with that. I started hanging all my clothes to dry. 100% cotton is both the heaviest and water-laden things out of the high-speed spin cycle, takes the longest to dry…like 3 days… and is hard and stiff like a board when it finally does dry.
On the other hand, I have flannel stuff made with 100% petrochemicals, and it is—without exaggeration—dry enough to wear out of the same spin cycle the cotton stuff was.
You're better off making a heat exchanger, but mame sure you have a way to drain the water
Free humidity!
Use a heat exchanger, get that heat back without all the humidity. Then use an HVAC condensate pump to get rid of all the condensation that collects.
isn't that basically an absorption chiller system
if it's electric you could, it would be humid. if it's gas you die.
>if it's gas you die.
The house I grew up in had open-flame unvented space heaters.
Just like all my neighbors did.
It'll humidify the shit out of your garage. You'll have to keep an eye on things rusting. Yes, my house was built like that and no, it's not possible to easily mod it (in my situation, anyway).
well i have a condensing drier so it already does vent inside
>Why can't you vent a clothes dryer inside during winter?
You absolutely can, and plenty of people do. Some people do it year round, some switch with the seasons.
Doing this will release metric fricktons of lint dust and humidity into your house. What you're saying would be like saying that suicide cables are safe just because they exist.
>Doing this will release metric fricktons of lint dust and humidity into your house.
It doesn't though, amazing right? I understand that you have absolutely no experience with this, but it's actually extremely common.
get a moisture reader from the lizard section of the pet store and make some data for us then
When I run mine, which is only in the winter, it'll push the humidity in the house from 20% up to 23%.
>Oh no, the mold, the humidity, the dripping condensation!
Obviously you shouldn't run an interior vent in a place with high humidity, but not everyone lives in southern Texas.
>It doesn't though, amazing right?
Wrong, it does.
I had an apartment that had an indoor venting dryer bc the management was cheap as shit and ran their buildings like shitty house flippers. It made the room super humid and triggered my asthma. This was in a tiny galley kitchen though, might work better in like a basement. They also had this ghetto ass plastic box you filled with water that acted as a filter that was completely ineffective and I’m sure there are much better solutions out there
I have a gas dryer that vents into my attached garage. Was that way when I bought the place and hasnt caused any issues. Warms the garage nicely in the wintertime. In the summer we mostly hang things outside to dry.
>venting dryer exhaust indoors
>especially exhaust from a gas dryer
Jfc, way to lower the air quality in your house.
morons.
mmm humidity and dust
The humidity will destroy your house.
YOU can and you should. Problem solved now frick off.