Venting Electric Dryer Into Attic

But we don t recommend it for two reasons.

Venting electric dryer into attic.

In these cases it may be necessary to vent your dryer through the attic. The attic is usually colder than the rest of the house during the winter and that can create a problem for a dryer vent. Sometimes such as in town homes or condos it s not possible to vent a dryer through a wall outside. That is the old material type tubing simply ended by a overhang side of the house where it exhaused into the attic and not outside.

The problem with attics. When our dryer was replaced we decided to bring the dryer venting system early 1960 up to code by replacing the tubing that vented into the attic. You can buy a box called an indoor dryer vent kit at home improvement stores and it manages to control most of the lint but not the water dumped into the air. Some homeowners use a much simpler system of venting down into a bucket of water like in the photo at the top of this page.

For dryers that are located in a place where venting to the outside is difficult it s ok to simply vent the dryer into a container of water. Not all dryers will allow for this so be sure to check the owners manual to ensure it can be vented in this manner. Dryer lint is also highly flammable. When a dryer is in.

Every electric dryer has to have an outlet through which it expels warm moist air or it won t work. Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat.